Staff Picks
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Staff Picks
The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It...Every Time
By Sally Haldorson
The author of Mastermind, a book that instructed us to think with deduction and precision in the vein of Sherlock Holmes, brings us The Confidence Game, a look at some of the most skillful cons every executed, how the grifters performed them, why people were often willing participants to the bitter end,
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What books are you giving this holiday season?
Here’s what our staff is giving this holiday season.
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6 Non-Fiction Gift Books for the Business Reader (and really, anyone)
By Sally Haldorson
When a tie or scarf just won't do.
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What books are on your holiday nightstand?
The 800-CEO-READ family is all set for the Thanksgiving holiday, and have some great books on hand to take with us to the couch after the feasting is done!
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The Go-Giver: A Little Story About A Powerful Business Idea
Bob Burg and John David Mann played an interesting role in bringing our Special Projects Manager Michael Jantz to our company. Michael explains.
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Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum
Kennedy Odede and Jessica Posner have written a tale of loss and hope, of compassion, education, and development, all wrapped up in a beautiful love story.
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Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
By Sally Haldorson
"A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner—continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you—is a fine art, in and of itself." - Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
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Simple Sabotage: A Modern Field Manual
By Sally Haldorson
During World War II, the government issued a classified manual for identifying acts of sabotage. Now Robert M. Galford, Bob Frisch, and Cary Greene take that (since declassified) document and apply it to the workplace.
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Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Philip Tetlock pulls back the curtain on his Good Judgment Project, teaching us all to be "superforecasters."
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Grit to Great : How Perseverance, Passion, and Pluck Take You from Ordinary to Extraordinary
By Sally Haldorson
How do we learn to have grit if excellence is held higher as a virtue than persistence?
Porchlight is a company filled with voracious readers—talented, creative individuals who know books, and who excel at moving them. Whenever we can, we like to do that by telling you about the books we’re reading.