Staff Picks
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Staff Picks
Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less
By Blyth Meier
Tiffany Dufu helps us clarify what matters most—and what doesn't—so we can leverage our highest and best use at home and work.
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Staff Picks
What our staff is reading this summer
By Blyth Meier
Summer means lazy vacations and digging in to a good book. Here's what's in our summer reading piles (a.k.a. beach bags).
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You Got This!: Unleash Your Awesomeness, Find Your Path, and Change Your World
By Blyth Meier
Maya S. Penn's must-read young adult business book is the perfect way to celebrate today's Take our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.
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Born for This, and The Atomic Weight of Love (for What You Do)
By Sally Haldorson
In Born for This, Chris Guilllebeau has given us a primer on "any number of scenarios that create job dissatisfaction, and reveals tips and tricks on how to make a change."
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What Works: Gender Equality By Design
By Sally Haldorson
Behavioral scientist Iris Bohnet presents 36 research-based design suggestions to circumvent the unconscious biases that prevent gender equality in organizations.
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How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life
By Ryan Schleicher
Caroline Webb shows readers how to use recent discoveries in behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to transform our every day.
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The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America
In her new book, Ann Neumann looks squarely at the issues surrounding death and dying in America.
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Staff Picks
This is Your Brain on Sports: The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn from the T-Shirt Cannon
By Sally Haldorson
Jon Wertheim and Sam Sommers have written a speedy compendium of sports stories and human behavioral tendencies that serves up social science insight with agility and good humor.
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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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Staff Picks
What books are you giving this holiday season?
By Blyth Meier
Here’s what our staff is giving this holiday season.
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.