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May 2016 Business Book Bestsellers
Our business book bestsellers for the month of May, 2016
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Books for Halloween
Browse our lists of popular and upcoming horror and Halloween books for adults and kids.
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Hispanic Heritage Books
Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated September 15-October 15. These books are recommended for reading and discussing in Employee Resource Groups, book clubs, classrooms, and events.
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Women's Equality
The books in this list are recommended to read and discuss in Employee Resource Groups, book clubs, classrooms, and events.
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Disability Pride
One in four adults in the United States lives with a disability, but how many books do you read by disabled authors or about the experience of disability? The books in the lists below are recommended to read and discuss in Employee Resource Groups, book clubs, classrooms, and events.
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Books on Fatherhood
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Books By, For, and About the LGBTQIA+ Community
LGBTQIA+ Pride Month is as much about celebrating and making a very large community visible as it is about protecting human rights. The books we’re highlighting here do both.
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Books By, For, and About Ballerinas
Whether you're a dancer or just want to feel like one, these books by and about ballerinas are on point (en pointe).
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Mental Health Awareness Month Book List
We've curated a list of book recommendations to better understand mental health. Order any of our selections in bullk at a discount for your ERGs, book clubs, students, or organizations.
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Jewish American Heritage Month Book List
We've curated reading recommendations focused on the Jewish American community of authors and books. Order any of our selections in bulk at a discount for your ERGs, book clubs, students, or organizations.
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Book List
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. We've curated a list of contemporary books – nonfiction, business, and cookbooks – to learn about and celebrate the AANHPI heritages. Order any of these books in bullk at a discount for your ERGs, book clubs, students, or organizations.
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November: National Native American Heritage Month Booklist
A call for more stories about and by Indigenous Americans.
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Banned Books Week Booklist
Across the country, many of the books banned or challenged center BIPOC and LGBTIA+ themes and characters. Reading can be resistance to censorship and support of diverse perspectives.
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September: Hispanic Heritage Month Booklist
Consider new books and new perspectives in our 2023 Hispanic Heritage Month booklist.
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June: LGBTQIA+ Pride Month Booklist
LGBTQIA+ Pride Month is as much about celebrating and making a very large community visible as it is about protecting human rights. The books we’re highlighting here do both.
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April 14: Milwaukee Day Booklist
From the 414 area code, on 4/14, we've created a booklist to celebrate Milwaukee-based and Milwaukee-raised authors on Milwaukee Day.
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April: Earth Month Booklist
A booklist to celebrate new and classic reads that inform on and celebrate our planet.
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March: Women's History Month Booklist
A booklist to celebrate woman and women.
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February: Black History Month Booklist
A booklist to celebrate new and classic reads that reflect the great variety of Black perspectives and experiences.
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January: International Creativity Month Booklist
I have no doubt there’s a book out there to inspire creativity in any area of your life, whether you’re a freelance artist, nine-to-fiver, daydreamer, or anything in between.
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Native American/Indigenous Heritage Month Booklist
Celebrate Native American/Indigenous Heritage Month with this list of recommended reading. We see you, and we read you.
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Staff Favorites: Fall 2022
As the seasons change, so do our favorite books.
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Hispanic Heritage Month Booklist
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with this list of recommended authors and books. We see you, and we read you.
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National Wellness Month Booklist
August is National Wellness Month, and we've got a list of books to support you year-round. We see you and we read you.
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Staff Favorites
Telling someone your favorite book is an act of trust that we don’t take for granted.
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Pride Month Booklist
Through both joyous celebrations and more difficult work and learning, we can strive to become better allies or LGBTQIA+ community members. We see you, and we read you.
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Disability Book Week: April 23-29
We see you, and we read you. Here are five reading recommendations focused on the disabled community of authors and books.
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New Books for the Week of September 23
New books by Steven Pinker, Karen Walrond, Christina Farr, and Corinne Low.
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New Books for the Week of September 16
We believe in books, and we believe that a great book can shape the way we work, think, and live. Take a look at our picks below and see what speaks to you!
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New Releases for the Week of September 9
Featuring a new book from photographer Sally Mann, a business biography on Patagonia, and two psychology-based approaches to navigating and changing the world around us.
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New Book Releases for the Week of September 2
Featuring new releases on creativity, leadership, and business biography.
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New Book Releases for the Week of August 26
Featuring new releases by Austin Channing Brown; Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini; Alice Lovejoy; and Guryan Tighe.
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New Book Releases for the Week of August 19
Featuring new releases by Johnathan Walton, Giri Nathan, Laura Bates, and Cordelia Fine.
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New Book Releases for the Week of August 12
Featuring new releases from Frederick Luis Aldama and Angela M. Sánchez; Jonathan Mahler; Arthur C. Brooks; and Marc Berman.
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New Book Releases for the Week of August 5
Featuring new releases from Eveline Shen, Juan Bendaña, Katharina Reinecke, and Madeleine Beekman.
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New Book Releases for the Week of July 29, 2025
Featuring new releases from Tre Johnson, Martin Dubin, Kate Morgan, and Laura Huang.
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New Book Releases for the Week of July 22, 2025
Featuring new releases from Paul Vigna, Sarah Stein Lubrano, Richard Shear, and Minda Harts.
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New Book Releases for the Week of July 15, 2025
Featuring new releases from Adam Aleksic, Wendy Johnson, Jeffrey Hull and Margaret Moore, and Katherine Larson
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New Book Releases for the Week of July 8, 2025
Featuring new releases from Dean Spears and Michael Geruso; Matt Richtel; Nicholas Triolo; and Eszter Hargittai and John Palfrey.
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New Book Releases for the Week of July 1, 2025
Featuring new releases by Suzi Ruffell, Charlie English, Kimberly Potts, and Michael Grunwald.
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New Book Releases for the Week of June 24, 2025
Featuring new book releases from Rebecca Grant, Joseph Jebelli, Emily Kasriel, and Augustin Landier and David Thesmar.
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New Book Releases for the Week of June 17, 2025
Featuring new book releases from Jim Afremow and Phil White; Leigh Claire La Berge; Shannon Watts; and Rami Kaminski.
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New Book Releases for the Week of June 10, 2025
Featuring new book releases from Julia Austin, Samuel Arbesman, Bill McGowan and Juliana SIlva, and Alan Siegel
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New Book Releases for the Week of June 3, 2025
Featuring new book releases from Jeremy Kourdi and Jonathan Besser; Adam Met with Heather Landy; Evan Osnos; and Pat Flynn.
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New Book Releases for the Week of May 27, 2025
Featuring new book releases from Kevin Smokler, Cristina Jiménez, Augustine Sedgewick, Patricia A. McCoy.
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New Book Releases for the Week of May 20, 2025
Featuring new book releases from Anna Malaika Tubbs, Robert Macfarlane, Greta Morgan, and Anna Mitchael.
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New Book Releases for the Week of May 13, 2025
Featuring new book releases from Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, Amina AlTai, Zach Mercurio, and Amanda Litman.
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New Book Releases for the Week of May 6, 2025
Featuring new book releases from Eunji Kim, Dave Whorton, Suzy Welch, and Ian Kumekawa.
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New Book Releases for the Week of April 29, 2025
Featuring new book releases from Greg Grandin, Jaz Brisack, Martin Reeves and Bob Goodson, and Kristine Gasbarre
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New Book Releases for the Week of April 22, 2025
Featuring new book releases from Jake Knapp, Adam Becker, Bonnie Tsui, and Paul Marushka.
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New Book Releases for the Week of April 15, 2025
Featuring new book releases from Daryl Fairweather, Elizabeth Weingarten, Erica Machulak, and Tasha Eurich
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New Book Releases for the Week of April 8, 2025
Featuring new book releases from Paul Rice, Jennifer N. Levin, Gardiner Harris, and Vauhini Vara
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New Book Releases for the Week of April 1, 2025
Featuring new book releases from Jonathan D. Cohen, Wes Adams and Tamara Myles, Diane Coyle, and Gretchen Rubin.
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New Book Releases for the Week of March 25, 2025
Featuring new book releases from Rabbi Asher Gottesman, Margaret Heffernan, Dr. Drew Ramsey, and Patricia Grabarek and Katina Sawyer.
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New Book Releases for the Week of March 18, 2025
Featuring new book releases from Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Robert C. Bordone and Joel Salinas, M.D., Noliwe Rooks, and Alexis Madrigal.
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New Book Releases for the Week of March 11, 2025
Featuring new book releases from Alencia Johnson, Will Bardenwerper, Grant Sabatier, and Nicole Karlis.
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New Book Releases for the Week of March 4, 2025
Featuring new book releases from Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy, Nicholas Lalla, Vanessa Priya Daniel, and Sabina Nawaz.
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New Book Releases for the Week of February 25, 2025
Featuring new book releases from Fred Block, Kate Williams, Fritz Breithaupt, and Shari Dunn.
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New Book Releases for the Week of February 18, 2025
Featuring new book releases from Sarah Jones, Sophie Lewis, Donald H. Chew, Jr., and William von Hippel.
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New Book Releases for the Week of February 11, 2025
Featuring new book releases from Barry Lam, Eve L. Ewing, Andy J. Merolla and Jeffrey A. Hall, and David Levering Lewis.
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New Book Releases for the Week of February 4, 2025
Featuring new book releases from Paula Davis, Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon, Jess Johnston, and Ira Madison, III
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New Book Releases for the Week of January 28, 2025
Featuring new book releases from Deborah Perry Piscione and Josh Drean, Tanya Pearson, Steven J. Heine, and Nicholas Carr.
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New Book Releases for the Week of January 21, 2025
Featuring new book releases from Dan Heath, Alison Wood Brooks, Jennifer Moss, and Betsy Wills and Alex Ellison.
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New Book Releases for the Week of January 14, 2025
Featuring new book releases from Dr. Sunita Sah, Lee Hawkins, Michael Albertus, and Erik Baker.
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New Book Releases for the Week of January 7, 2025
Featuring new book releases from Adam Chandler, Martha Beck, John Kay, and Brie Stoner
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New Book Releases for December 17-31, 2024
Featuring new book releases from Sam Carr, Jay Zigmont, Michael H. Posner, and Jaha Marie Dukureh
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New Book Releases for the Week of December 10, 2024
Featuring new book releases from Brandon Shimoda, Eliot Stein, David McKnight, and Brent Sohngen and Douglas Southgate
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New Book Releases for the Week of December 3, 2024
Featuring new book releases from Glenn Adamson, john a. powell, Jonathan Foiles, and Amar Bhidé
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New Book Releases for the Week of November 26, 2024
Featuring new book releases from Emily Mester, Stephanie Gorton, Michael Tondre, and Auden Schendler
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New Book Releases for the Week of November 19, 2024
Featuring new book releases from Steven Shapin, James Chappel, Marcus J. Moore, and Rita Omokha.
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New Book Releases for the Week of November 12, 2024
Featuring new book releases from Karen Bloom Gevritz, Savanah N. Landerholm, Keith Ferrazzi, and David Graeber.
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New Book Releases for the Week of November 5, 2024
Featuring new book releases from Amber Massie-Blomfield, Oliver Sacks, Carrie M. Lane, and Thomas Erickson.
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New Book Releases for the Week of October 29, 2024
Featuring new book releases from Karthik Ramanna, Lyta Gold, Serene Khader, and Glory Edim.
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New Book Releases for the Week of October 22, 2024
Featuring new book releases from Brother Phap Huu and Jo Confino, Claudius A. Hildebrand and Robert J. Stark, Nancy Slonim Aronie, and Seth Godin.
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New Book Releases for the Week of October 15, 2024
Featuring new book releases from Nellwyn Lampert, Pamela Oakley, Christian Smith, and Gillian Turnbull; Bruna Dantas Lobato; Stephan Meier; and Karen Brown.
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New Book Releases for the Week of October 8, 2024
Featuring new book releases from Alexis Peri, Philip Moeller, Oliver Burkeman, and Robert Skidelsky.
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New Book Releases for the Week of October 1, 2024
Featuring new book releases from Nhi Yến Đỗ Trần, Alex Hannaford, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and IllumiNative.
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Blaze Me a Sun: A Novel About a Crime
In his latest crime novel, and his US debut, Christoffer Carlsson interrogates an eternal, but also very contemporary set of questions, so relevant in this age of true crime stories’ raging popularity.
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Frankenstein and an Empire of Pain
On the creation of a fictional monster in 1800s England, and those who did well off the proceeds of a drug so easily abused that it became a monster in modern-day America.
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Back to Books
Our Managing Director, Sally Haldorson, is beginning a new series to share her thoughts on books, business, and the world.
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A Q&A with Toby Stuart, author of Anointed
A leading organizational theorist takes us deep into the realm of humanity’s most powerful invisible force—social status—and how it shapes everything from who we trust and what we value to which ideas and innovations change the world and who gets credit for their success.
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Live-Streamed Author Interview: Natalie Nixon in conversation with Eve Rodsky
Natalie Nixon's new book gives you insight to how the best organizations allow the personal and the professional to converge at strategic moments.
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A Q&A with Martin Dubin, author of Blindspotting
What you don't see about yourself can hold you back as a leader. Clinical psychologist Martin Dubin shares the concept of blindspotting to help leaders unlock their potential.
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A Q&A with Aymann Ismail, Author of Becoming Baba
From Slate staff writer Aymann Ismail comes an exquisite memoir about fatherhood, religion, and the search for identity in an ever-shifting world.
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A Q&A with Rick Tucci
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A Q&A with Jack Skeels
Jack Skeels talks about his latest book and shares some of his other recommended reads.
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Shaka Senghor in conversation with Seth Godin – July 25, 2025
Watch the interview between Shaka Senghor and Seth Godin on Shaka's book How to Be Free: A Proven Guide to Escaping Life's Hidden Prisons.
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A Q&A with Neri Karra Sillaman
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A Q&A with Brian Goldstone
Brian Goldstone answers our questions about his latest book and shares some of his other recommended reads.
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Shigehiro Oishi, author of Life in Three Dimensions
Porchlight's Managing Director Sally Haldorson interviewed Social Psychologist Shigehiro Oishi at Boswell Books on February 27, 2025. The full interview is available to watch on YouTube.
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'This Is Strategy': An Interview with Seth Godin
Watch our hour-long interview with Seth Godin on his new book.
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Job Therapy with Tessa West: How to Repair Your Relationship With Your Job or How to Change Careers
Watch our hour-long interview with Tessa West on her book Job Therapy: Finding Work That Works for You. The book can help you improve your relationship with your current job or prepare you to make a career change.
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How Women Became America's Safety Net: An Interview with Jessica Calarco
Watch our hour-long interview with Jessica Calarco on her book Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net.
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'The New Tourist': An Interview with Paige McClanahan
Watch our hour-long interview with Paige McClanahan on her book The New Tourist: Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel.
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'Ambition Monster': An Interview with Jennifer Romolini
Watch our hour-long interview with Jennifer Romolini on her new book Ambition Monster: A Memoir.
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'New Happy': An Interview with Stephanie Harrison
Watch our hour-long interview with Stephanie Harrison on her new book New Happy: Getting Happiness Right in a World That's Got It Wrong.
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'Getting Things Done with Others': An Interview with David Allen and Edward Lamont
David Allen and Edward Lamont talk about their new book in this hour-long interview.
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A Q&A with Des Linden
Des Linden answers some of our questions about Choosing to Run—and other favorite books—in our latest author Q&A.
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'Is Your Work Worth It?': An Interview with Christopher Wong Michaelson & Jennifer Tosti-Kharas
Watch our hour-long interview with Christopher Wong Michaelson and Jennifer Tosti-Kharas on their new book Is Your Work Worth It?: How to Think about Meaningful Work.
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'Fighting for Our Friendships': An Interview with Danielle Bayard Jackson
Friendship coach and author Danielle Bayard Jackson offers insight into what makes women's friendships so important, so difficult, and so worth fighting for.
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A Q&A with Adam Makos
Adam Makos answers some of our questions about A Higher Call—and other books—in our latest author Q&A.
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A Q&A with Gregory Zuckerman
Gregory Zuckerman answers some questions about the his book The Man Who Solved the Market (and other books) in our latest author Q&A.
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A Q&A with Joe Posnanski
Joe Posnanski answers some of our questions about the his latest book—and other books—in a new author Q&A.
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Upcoming Author Interview: Stephanie Harrison — May 14, 2024
Register now to watch our interview with Stephanie Harrison, creator of the New Happy philosophy, on May 14, 2024 at 12pm CT on YouTube, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
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Upcoming Author Interview: Paige McClanahan – June 20, 2024
There are many gives and takes of tourism—we need to talk about them. And Paige McClanahan's book is an engaging and effective facilitator of that conversation.
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Upcoming Author Interview: Jennifer Romolini — June 4, 2024
"Written with self-deprecation and wit, Ambition Monster is a gutsy and powerful look at workaholism and the addictive nature of achievement, the lingering effect of childhood trauma, and the failures of our modern rat race."
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Upcoming Author Interview: Christopher Wong Michaelson and Jennifer Tosti-Kharas – May 9, 2024
Is your work worth it? Watch our live-streamed conversation in May to learn more!
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Upcoming Author Interview: David Allen and Edward Lamont — May 22, 2024
We're excited to learn how to get things done together—with David Allen and Edward Lamont.
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Cass R. Sunstein in Conversation with Sally Haldorson
In this previously live-streamed interview, Cass R. Sunstein discusses the book he co-authored with Tali Sharot, Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There.
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Upcoming Author Interview: Cass R. Sunstein in Conversation with Sally Haldorson
Register now to watch our live-streamed author interview at the end of February.
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Upcoming Author Interview: Ben Katt in Conversation with Sally Haldorson in Milwaukee, WI
We have an exciting in-person interview coming up in February!
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Ralph Nader in Conversation with Sally Haldorson
In this previously live-streamed interview, Ralph Nader answers discusses his book The Rebellious CEO: 12 Leaders Who Did It Right.
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Ben Katt in Conversation with Sally Haldorson
"I think at its core, [my book is] not wanting to treat wellness or wellbeing as this sort of surface level, 'just got to clean up my act, look better...' you know, because it can be dangerous that way."
Watch our full interview with Ben Katt, author of The Way Home: Discovering the Hero's Journey to Wholeness at Midlife.
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Frances Frei in Conversation with Sally Haldorson
In this previously live-streamed interview, Frances Frei discusses how her and co-author Anne Morriss's book Move Fast and Fix Things helps organizations of all sizes embrace and enact change.
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Porchlight Featured on Weaving Influence’s "Book Marketing Action" Podcast
Our Managing Director recently sat down with Becky Robinson of Weaving Influence to talk books and book marketing.
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Amy Edmondson in Conversation with Sally Haldorson
Amy Edmondson discussed some of the main points from her new book Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well in this previously live-streamed conversation with Porchlight's Managing Director Sally Haldorson.
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Promo Video: Our Author Interview Series
Past conversations with authors like Susan Cain, Katherine May, Ada Limón, Mike Mariani, and more are all available in full on our YouTube channel.
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Upcoming Live-Streamed Conversation with Amy Edmondson
"This book is about what makes learning from failure so difficult to put into practice in our day-to-day lives and in the institutions we build. It's also about how we can do better."
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Dorcas Cheng-Tozun in Conversation with Sally Haldorson
Dorcas Cheng-Tozun discussed some of the main points from her new book Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways in this previously live-streamed conversation with Porchlight's Managing Director Sally Haldorson.
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Upcoming Live-Streamed Author Interview: Dorcas Cheng-Tozun
Register now for access to our upcoming live-streamed conversation with Dorcas Cheng-Tozun, a writer and leader whose work with various nonprofits, social enterprises, and faith-based organizations has given her the opportunity to engage with a broad range of social issues toward solutions in the areas of homelessness, affordable housing, energy access, youth leadership, HIV/AIDS, and international development.
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Peggy O'Donnell Heffington in Conversation with Gabriella Cisneros
Peggy O'Donnell Heffington discussed some of the main points from her new book Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother in this previously live-streamed conversation with Porchlight's Creative Director Gabriella Cisneros.
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Sara Elise in Conversation with Sally Haldorson
On May 4, Porchlight's Managing Director Sally Haldorson sat down with Sara Elise, the author of A Recipe for More: Ingredients for a Life of Abundance and Ease.
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Upcoming Live-Streamed Author Interview: Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
Register now for this upcoming live-streamed conversation with Instructional Professor of History Peggy O'Donnell Heffington.
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Meg Zucker in Conversation with Sally Haldorson
On April 14, 2023, we spoke with Meg Zucker at Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee, WI. Her latest book is Born Extraordinary: Empowering Children with Differences and Disabilities.
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A Q&A with Gretchen Rubin
We asked Gretchen Rubin five questions about Life in Five Senses, a book that will help us develop a deeper connection to our own bodies and more deliberately interact with all the gifts the world around us has on offer.
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Women's History Month: Lion's Tooth
Porchlight Book Company is proud to be a woman-owned company. Here in Milwaukee, we’re also lucky to be in company with a growing number of fellow woman-owned bookstores. In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re proud to highlight these community change-makers.
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Women's History Month: Niche Book Bar
Porchlight Book Company is proud to be a woman-owned company. Here in Milwaukee, we’re also lucky to be in company with other woman-owned bookstores. In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re proud to highlight these community change-makers.
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A Q&A with Tove Danovich
After reading Tove Danovich’s debut book Under the Henfluence, it made me think a lot more about these creatures that are taken for granted, and it left me yearning to have my own flock.
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Andre Sólo in Conversation with Sally Haldorson
We take a deeper look at Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World and learn more about co-author Andre Sólo through a live-streamed conversation.
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Women's History Month: La Revo Books
Porchlight Book Company is proud to be a woman-owned company. Here in Milwaukee, we’re also lucky to be in company with a growing number of fellow woman-owned bookstores. In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re proud to highlight these community change-makers.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for July 2019
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for July 2019 features RANGE by David Epstein at #1.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for June 2019
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for June 2019 features THE MOMENT OF LIFT by Melinda Gates at #1.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for May 2019
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for May 2019 features Rebel Talent by Francesca Gino at #1.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for April 2019
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for April 2019 features Rehumanize Your Business at #1.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for March 2019
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for March 2019 features Jean Chatzky's WOMEN WITH MONEY in the top slot.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for February 2019
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for February 2019 features Howard Schultz in the top slot.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for December 2018
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for December 2018.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for November 2018
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for November 2018.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for October 2018
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for October 2018.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for September 2018
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for September 2018.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for August 2018
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for August 2018.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for July 2018
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for July 2018.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for June 2018
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for June 2018.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for May 2018
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for May 2018.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for April 2018
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for April 2018.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for March 2018
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for March 2018.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for January 2018
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for January 2018.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for December 2017
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for December 2017.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for November 2017
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for November 2017.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for October 2017
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for October 2017.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for September 2017
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for September 2017.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for August 2017
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for August 2017.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for July 2017
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for July 2017.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for June 2017
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for June 2017.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for May 2017
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for May 2017.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for April 2017
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for April 2017.
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for March 2017
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for March 2017.
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800-CEO-READ Bestsellers for January 2017
The bestselling books at 800-CEO-READ for January 2017.
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December 2016 Business Book Bestsellers
Our business book bestsellers for the month of December, 2016
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November 2016 Business Book Bestsellers
Our business book bestsellers for the month of November, 2016
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October 2016 Business Book Bestsellers
Our business book bestsellers for the month of October, 2016
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September 2016 Business Book Bestsellers
Our business book bestsellers for the month of September, 2016
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August 2016 Business Book Bestsellers
Our business book bestsellers for the month of August, 2016
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July 2016 Business Book Bestsellers
Our business book bestsellers for the month of July, 2016
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June 2016 Business Book Bestsellers
Our business book bestsellers for the month of June, 2016
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April 2016 Business Book Bestsellers
Our business book bestsellers for the month of April, 2016
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March 2016 Business Book Bestsellers
Our business book bestsellers for the month of March, 2016
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February 2016 Business Book Bestsellers
Our business book bestsellers for the month of February, 2016
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January 2016 Business Book Bestsellers
Our business book bestsellers for the month of January, 2016
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December 2015 Business Book Bestsellers
Our business book bestsellers for the month of December, 2015
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November 2015 Business Book Bestsellers
Our business book bestsellers for the month of November, 2015
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October 2015 Business Book Bestsellers
Our business book bestsellers for the month of October, 2015
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September 2015 Business Book Bestsellers
Our business book bestsellers for the month of September, 2015
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August 2015 Business Book Bestsellers
Our business book bestsellers for the month of August, 2015
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July 2015 Business Book Bestsellers
Our business book bestsellers for the month of July, 2015
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June 2015 Business Book Bestsellers
Our business book bestsellers for the month of June, 2015
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May 2015 Business Book Bestsellers
Our business book bestsellers for the month of May, 2015
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April 2015 Business Book Bestsellers
Our business book bestsellers for the month of April, 2015
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Pass the Crown Act: Ending Race-Based Hair Discrimination
It is expensive to be a woman, and—as Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman details in her new book The Double Tax—the costs are often much higher for women of color, especially Black women. The gaps in job opportunities, salaries, housing costs, childcare access, and generational wealth are dramatic. The problem is even more personal when it comes to appearance, as race-based hair discrimination remains common in both schools and workplaces. That financial and psychological costs remain high, but solutions are available.
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The Future of Work Starts at the Front Line
Rick Tucci believes that, as technology reshapes our organizations, "leaders are being handed an unprecedented opportunity: the chance to redeploy time and talent on the front lines." For a real-world example of this, Tucci turns to his experience working with Steve Preston and the U.S. Small Business Administration in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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MTR Activity: A New Operating System for Work in The Twenty-first Century
The advice to keep our nose to the grindstone may not always result in our best, most creative, or most productive work. Creativity strategist Natalie Nixon offers a different model of productivity—one that encourages space and time to move, think, and rest—that allows individuals and organizations to flourish.
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Reframes for Modern Agency Leaders
The agency market's not oversupplied, it's just under-differentiated. Robin Bonn offers reframes for agency leaders to differentiate you from the competition and create a "Market of One."
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You Are Enough: Personal Lessons in Self-Acceptance from Family, Dharma, and Hip-Hop
"I want to create music and experiences," writes musician and meditation teacher Born I, "for people to understand that it's okay to be exactly who you are. You are enough." His new book, Lyrical Dharma, is another experience he has created to do that work.
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The Taylor Swift Business Model: A Brand of Adaptable Authenticity
Building a brand can get bogged down in corporate machinations and language, but it can also be a communal process—a back-and-forth exchange with fans based upon shared human interests and experiences. Crystal Haryanto explores how one of the most successful artists of our age has managed to thoughtfully and carefully "build a brand revolving around communication and humanity."
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Let’s Reclaim Rankings: Why One-Size-Fits-All Rankings Fail Us, and How to Use Weighted Sums to Make More Thoughtful Life Decisions
They say that data is the new oil, but unlike drilling for oil, we can all drill into the numbers and data that drive the new economy. Mathematician Noah Giansiracusa gives you the tools to look behind the numbers and employ the data to make more informed and thoughtful decisions.
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Trusting Your Gut Feel: Listening To What Whispers, Not What Screams
Trusting your gut isn't always the right move, but relying on data alone can also lead us astray. "Gut feel," writes Laura Huang, "is the result of data plus experience," and is a critical factor for success.
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Skibidi Toilet, Boomer Ellipses, and the Roman Empire: How Influencers Use Language To Capture Your Attention
Human language has been evolving since the first word was spoken. What's new is how online memes and trends take off and enter our everyday lexicon. The Etymology Nerd, Adam Aleksic, examines the tricks content creators use to grab our attention online and how it is changing how we talk offline.
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Mismeasuring Impact: The Gold Standard Movement’s Threat to the Nonprofit Sector
Randomized Controlled Trials have become the primary method for evaluating nonprofit programs and organizations. Nicole P. Marwell and Jennifer E. Mosley examine how that came to be, and how it affects the work nonprofits do and their impact on communities.
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The Problem With Our Ambition, and the Negotiation-Resignation-Renegotiation Continuum
The culture of ambition in our workplaces consistently pushes us to the brink of burnout—and sometimes beyond it. Still, we feel the pull to keep striving for more. Rha Goddess helps us step back and take a more intentional and thoughtful approach to our careers, to be more intentional with our ambition.
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Overcoming Overthinking: The Power to Change Using Stoic Wisdom and Simple Principles
Simple principles, practiced consistently, can profoundly impact our lives. Dr. Chuck Chakrapani explains how the principles of the Stoic philosophers, developed more than two thousand years ago, are well-suited to modern life and its problems, and how to put them into practice.
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Why the World Needs Deep Listening
People around the world are worried about rising polarization. Deep Listening is a way to inoculate ourselves and our communities against it—to build understanding even among those who may still ultimately disagree.
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You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It To: The Perils of Hustle Culture
Hustle culture is widespread everywhere, from Accra's marketplace to New York City's corporate offices. Rachel Laryea dissects that culture, looking at how it manifests in different communities and countries, the harm it inflicts on all of us—but on historically marginalized communities in particular—and how "pushback and disruption of the system can intervene in and refashion the system itself."
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The Case for a Four-Day Week
Juliet Schor has been researching companies implementing four-day workweeks since the beginning of 2022 and has testified before the US Senate on the topic. Here, she looks at the progress being made and whether the model can be applied more widely across all types of organizations.
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Fear and AI: Navigating the Future with Conscious Cognitive Empathy
De Kai is an AI professor who pioneered global-scale online language translators. To address the challenges AI presents to humanity, he suggests we must rely on one of our most human qualities, empathy.
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Algorithms Are Made of People!
Our digital technologies are not neutral tools. We tend to think of algorithms, in particular, as somehow devoid of human influence but they are, in fact, rules written by people. That makes the politics of the platforms that employ them of paramount importance. Mike Pepi explores how we can assess the situation to survive the platform age.
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A Global Call for Justice, the Corporate Response, and the Current Challenge
Diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts are currently under attack. DK Bartley explores the recent history of events, the idea, and the industry, and explains why "the most successful companies aren’t retreating from DEI, they’re evolving their approach."
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The Secrets to Success During Change and Disruption
We all have to deal with change at our jobs. Joel Zeff offers an actionable and improvisational way to embrace it.
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A Leader’s Guide to Developing a Foundation for Hope
"Hope is a strategy like no other," writes Jennifer Moss in her new book, Why Are We Here? As the world becomes more uncertain and anxiety-inducing, she urges leaders to treat hope as more than "merely and feel-good sentiment," and to be more deliberate about building it into their company culture. More importantly, she shows you how to do so in a scientifically backed and proactive way.
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Co-opting Self-Care: How a Concept from Community Activism Became So Self-Absorbed
"Self-care" is a term with deep roots, one that once focused on the self-preservation of systematically oppressed people and communities. A multibillion-dollar wellness industry has taken the term and turned it into something we buy for ourselves. Award-winning journalist Amy Larocca explores the history of self-care and if the concept has become overly self-indulgent today.
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Why the Conventional Wisdom on Business Longevity Gets It Wrong
As an aspiring entrepreneur, Neri Karra Sillaman ingested the classics of the business book genre for inspiration. As she built her family business, she found that many of the lessons they imparted weren't applicable to the context she was working in, and that the businesses they profiled were no longer succeeding. So she developed her own principles for business longevity, which she now shares with others as an Adjunct Professor and Entrepreneurship Expert at the University of Oxford, and in her new book, Pioneers.
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The Importance of Connection in a World of Constant Chaos
If you find yourself confronting chaos, uncertainty, and existential questions on an almost daily basis, you are not alone—and you don't have to deal with it alone. Dr. Tasha Eurich highlights the critical role a connection to others plays in our wellbeing, and how prioritizing our own needs makes us better able to make those connections.
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The One That Got Away: On the Evolution of Fair Trade and Ethical Sourcing
As the founder of Fair Trade USA, Paul Rice has helped build the conscious capitalism movement, although not without some setbacks. He shares a story about one of his greatest regrets, and how a failure to close a big deal became a valuable lesson about evolving ethical supply chains.
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The Importance of Wellness in the Workplace
Workplaces are a leading cause of stress and burnout, but they don't have to be. Patricia Grabarek and Katina Sawyer share the evidence that leaders who focus on wellness boost productivity, engagement, employee retention, and the bottom line. They may even improve society.
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The Working Homeless
They work full-time jobs and still can't afford to put a roof over their heads. Brian Goldstone highlights a mostly hidden, truly troubling new aspect of homelessness in America.
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The AI-augmented Leader
Artificial Intelligence is upending the workplace. While many fear its potential to replace us, there is also promise that it will add to our abilities. Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter look at what qualities leaders need now and how AI can augment them.
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How Visionary Leaders Can Reshape Business for Good
We have constructed a complex and rich world in which to live, but it is balanced on the precipice of economic, ecological, and moral crises. Elina Teboul surveys the current state of the world and explains why we need a new generation of, and a new approach to, leadership.
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Addressing Leader Well-Being & Burnout
Highlighting a troubling trend, Paula Davis writes that "Managers and leaders at all levels are burning out and leaving their jobs at an alarming rate." Davis's new book, Lead Well, focuses on the "we" aspects of leadership. This bonus chapter focuses on the "me" aspects—taking care of yourself so that you that you don't burn out and are able to continue showing up for and others.
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Living in the Cult of Technology: Wellbeing in the Digital Age
Consumerism, misinformation, and groupthink make the digital spaces we spend so much of our time in more unhealthy for us, and our focus on individual responsibility over collective responsibility for these ills causes us to feel at fault. Mental health expert Petra Velzeboer helps us consider what a healthier relationship to technology might look like while prioritizing our individual wellbeing.
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Using Aristotle’s Transcendentals to Build a Good Organization
Creating organizational culture must be done deliberately, and with a set of principles in mind. Dave Durand suggests Aristotle's Transcendentals to build a business that provides "a service that goes above and beyond, and an organizational culture that inspires."
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The Techo-Humanist Compass: Prioritizing Human Agency in AI Development
Reid Hoffman is deeply involved with the development of AI, but he knows that the best technology to help explain where it's going is a book, "in part as homage to the essential truth that technologies that often seem decidedly flawed and even dehumanizing at first usually end up being exactly the opposite." We have the Introduction to that book for you here.
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Imparting Wisdom in Parting Words: Mining Senators’ Farewell Addresses for a More Functional, Hopeful, and Representative Democracy
In our hyper-partisan era, how can we form the consensus we need for our government to function well enough to meet the many crises and challenges we face? Former congressional staffer turned politics professor Casey Burgat looks to the farewell speeches of recent Senators for input and inspiration.
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The Right Place and Time for Defiance: Acting in Accordance with Your True Values When There is Pressure to Do Otherwise
Defiance is risky, and never easy. It is also sometimes necessary and a catalyst for change. Dr. Sunita Sah helps us determine the right time and place to defy, and how we can get more comfortable standing up for our core moral values when the need arises.
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Holistic Flexibility: Humanizing the Workplace for Productivity, Profitability, and Possibility
There has been a push in many companies to end flexible work arrangements. Manar Sweillam Morales's research suggests that this is misguided. In this piece, Morales shares five specific reasons why flexibility is not only here to stay, but greatly benefits the businesses that get it right.
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Learn to Trust Yourself: How Small Actions Lead to Big Change
New Year's resolutions are often quickly abandoned. Shane Jackson argues that building self-trust through small, achievable goals leads to more meaningful change over time.
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Done Is Better Than Perfect: Why a Speedy First Draft Wins
Writing a book is an excellent way for business owners to share their ideas. Emily Crookston demonstrates that it’s not as intimidating as it seems; all it takes is starting with a rough draft.
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5 Essential Building Blocks for Improving Organizational Culture
While it may seem that workplace culture develops spontaneously, Thomas Krause asserts that leaders can and should actively shape it to benefit everyone.
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The Critical Role of OSINT in Vetting Misinformation and Disinformation for Due Diligence
How can we determine the truth in an era of widespread misinformation? Cynthia Hetherington presents open-source intelligence as a valuable tool for navigating data and making decisions based on verified information.
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Customer Insights: What Are They Willing to Pay More For?
Instead of solely addressing a customer's problem, Adam Wallace contends that it's more effective to emphasize how products and services can enhance the customer's quality of life.
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Fully Committed: What We Can Learn from Norway’s Road to Electrification
Kenneth Boyer writes that adopting electric vehicles is crucial for achieving a more sustainable economy and points out Norway's remarkable shift in its automotive industry towards a greener future.
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How to Write Goals that Matter with OKRs
Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden argue that delivering meaningful value to customers, rather than merely meeting numerical targets, results in better work and greater employee satisfaction.
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How to Raise an Entrepreneur: Never Let Schooling Interfere With Your Child’s Education
Parents may feel anxious when their child chooses a non-traditional path instead of following conventional schooling or careers. In response, Margot Machol Bisnow highlights individuals who succeeded by defying expectations early in their lives.
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Life Goals: Tapping Inspiration Instead of Desperation as the Source
Many individuals set life goals out of anxiety about the future. However, Joseph Nguyen states that when we align our goals with our inspirations, we pave the way to lasting fulfillment.
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Leadership, Influence, and the F-word
There is no quick fix for becoming an effective leader; it is a practice rooted in perseverance and authenticity, writes Lida Citroën.
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Dürer’s Rhinoceros: Strategy as a Sketch of What Might Come Next
We move forward with our plans and strategies not by knowing exactly what lies ahead but by making assertions about what might come based on our present knowledge.
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Cultivating Young Voices for Change
Guiding children to learn about their country’s history and actively participate in school and community programs will better prepare them for leadership roles in our democracy, writes Lyle Greenfield.
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Defying the Odds: How Women of Color Can Shatter the Concrete Ceiling
Leadership coach Cynthia Pong writes that women of color often encounter undue discrimination and hurdles in their career progression, but by banding together, there is hope to overcome these challenges.
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Scholar, Diplomat, Patriot: The Forgotten Story of Gouverneur Morris
Historian and podcaster Sharon McMahon believes that the individuals who have influenced American history are not always the most well-known. Here, she uncovers the little-known story of the man considered to be Alexander Hamilton’s intellectual equal.
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Thriving in Chaos: A Mental Model for Change in Business and Life
Flying a helicopter is, in the end, a really good metaphor for entrepreneurship, whether in the business of life, or the life of business, writes acclaimed CEO, TED speaker, and professor James Rhee.
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2025 Porchlight Business Book Awards Call for Entries
Entries for the 2025 Porchlight Business Book Awards are now open!
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Tech Agnostic | An Excerpt from the 2024 Porchlight Big Ideas & New Perspectives Book of the Year
The 2024 Big Ideas & New Perspectives Book of the Year is Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation by Greg Epstein, published by MIT Press.
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The Vagina Business | An Excerpt from the 2024 Porchlight Creativity & Innovation Book of the Year
The 2024 Creativity and Innovation Book of the Year is The Vagina Business: The Innovative Breakthroughs That Could Change Everything in Women's Health by Marina Gerner, published by Sourcebooks.
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Higher Ground | An Excerpt from the 2024 Porchlight Leadership and Strategy Book of the Year
The 2024 Leadership and Strategy Book of the Year is Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World by Alison Taylor, published by Harvard Business Review Press.
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The Truth About Immigration | An Excerpt from the 2024 Porchlight Current Events & Public Affairs Book of the Year
The 2024 Current Events & Public Affairs Book of the Year is The Truth about Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers by Zeke Hernandez, published by St. Martin's Press.
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The Problem with Change | An Excerpt from the 2024 Porchlight Management & Workplace Culture Book of the Year
The 2024 Porchlight Management & Workplace Culture Book of the Year is The Problem with Change: And the Essential Nature of Human Performance by Ashley Goodall, published by Little, Brown Spark.
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Say It Well | An Excerpt from 2024 Porchlight Marketing & Communications/Sales & Influence Book of the Year
The Marketing & Communications/Sales & Influence Book of the Year is Say It Well: Find Your Voice, Speak Your Mind, Inspire Any Audience by Terry Szuplat, published by Harper Business.
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Unlearning Silence | An Excerpt from the 2024 Porchlight Personal Development & Human Behavior Book of the Year
The 2024 Personal Development & Human Behavior Book of the Year is Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully by Elaine Lin Hering, published by Penguin Life.
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Savings and Trust | An Excerpt from the 2024 Porchlight Narrative & Biography Book of the Year
The 2024 Narrative & Biography Book of the Year is Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank by Justene Hill Edwards, published by W. W. Norton & Company.
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The authors of the best business books of 2024 respond to "Why do you believe in books?"
For the second year in a row, Porchlight asked the authors whose books we selected as the best business books of 2024 the question, "Why do you believe in books?" Their responses were thoughtful, sentimental, reflective, and forward-looking.
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The 2024 Jack Covert Award for Contribution to the Business Book Industry
Matt Holt is the recipient of the 2024 Jack Covert Award.
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The Best Leadership & Strategy Books of 2024
Each of the top five leadership and strategy books for 2024 spoke to and respected a different type of leader, and each will help you discover what kind of leader you want and need to be.
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The Best Management & Workplace Culture Books of 2024
Modern organizations are plagued with performative work and confusing policy, much of it the result of poor management and a lack of clear communication. At a time when so much attention is being given to how AI will affect our work, we found four books that focus on what humans can do to build better workplaces.
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The Best Marketing & Communications/Sales & Influence Books of 2024
Attention is the world’s most valuable resource, and learning how to earn it—how to seize and hold someone’s attention in your writing, while speaking in public, or in the brief moment an ad is in front of them, and how to offer it back when talking in person with others—is critical for every conversation and every company. These five books can help.
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The Best Current Events & Public Affairs Books of 2024
The greatest challenges we face today offer some of our greatest opportunities for growth. We just need the civic imagination and collective will to seize them, to build new things and embrace new approaches. The best Current Events & Public Affairs books of 2024 all addressed that need in some way.
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The Best Big Ideas & New Perspectives Books of 2024
Humans are social beings designed for connection.
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The Best Narrative & Biography Books of 2024
These five books reveal overlooked parts of our history and the forces shaping our lives, encouraging us to confront adversity to make the world a better place.
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The Best Personal Development & Human Behavior Books of 2024
These books help us better understand and appreciate ourselves and one another, forcing us to take a step back and reflect on how we all need each other, not just to exist, but to succeed and flourish.
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The Best Innovation & Creativity Books of 2024
With compelling voices, these books excite readers to investigate problems, acuminate ideas, and lead with an open-mind and the desire to change the world for the better.
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The 2024 Porchlight Business Book Awards Longlist
The 40 books on this year's list of best business books provide a bastion against the tide of overwhelm that we all feel, grounding us with clear-eyed practical and practiced ways to do the work that will effectively bring positive change to our own personal and professional spaces and places.
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Porchlight Book Company's 2023 Publishing Industry Appreciation Party
Look back at our publishing industry appreciation party through photos and a recap video.
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The 2023 Porchlight Business Book Awards | Big Ideas & New Perspectives
These are the books selected for the 2023 Big Ideas & New Perspectives category, curated by Porchlight's Managing Editor Jasmine Gonzalez.
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The 2023 Porchlight Business Book Awards | Narrative & Biography
These are the books selected for the 2023 Narrative & Biography category, curated by Porchlight's Managing Editor Jasmine Gonzalez.
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The 2023 Porchlight Business Book Awards | Current Events & Public Affairs
Looking for the year's best Current Events & Public Affairs books? Porchlight's Marketing & Editorial Director Dylan Schleicher has you, and those books, covered.
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The 2023 Porchlight Business Book Awards | Personal Development & Human Behavior
None of these books are directly about happiness, but follow their advice and you'll feel a lot happier about where you are and where you're headed.
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The 2023 Porchlight Business Book Awards | Innovation & Creativity
Our Creative Director Gabriella Cisneros describes how the best innovation and creativity books of 2023 connect to each other and help us readers connect to each other, too.
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The 2023 Porchlight Business Book Awards | Marketing & Communications/Sales & Influence
Porchlight's Marketing & Editorial Director Dylan Schleicher looks at the year's best book in the Marketing & Communications/Sales & Influence category.
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The 2023 Jack Covert Award for Contribution to the Business Book Industry
Rick Wolff is the recipient of the 2023 Jack Covert Award.
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The 2023 Porchlight Business Book Awards | Management & Workplace Culture
Porchlight's Marketing & Editorial Director Dylan Schleicher takes us inside 2023's best Management & Workplace Culture books.
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The 2023 Porchlight Business Book Awards | Leadership & Strategy
Porchlight's Managing Director Sally Haldorson dives into 2023's best books in the Leadership & Strategy category.
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The 2023 Porchlight Business Book Awards
These 40 books spoke to us—and we believe speak to each other—in a way that furthers the conversations we need to have in the organizations we work in, the communities we live in, and the societies that shape us. With them as a guide, we can make decisions that better shape each, in turn.
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The 2023 Porchlight Business Book Awards Call for Entries
The Porchlight Business Book Awards are now open for entries! And we are doing things a little differently this year.
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Porchlight Book Company's Bestselling Books of 2022
We love reading books, but our main purpose as a company is to get them in the hands of others.
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Stolen Focus by Johann Hari is the 2022 Porchlight Business Book of the Year
In one insightful instance after another, Johann Hari demonstrates the ways in which our attention is deliberately hijacked, and how to get it back.
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The 2022 Jack Covert Award for Contribution to the Business Book Industry
Barbara Cave Henricks is the recipient of the 2022 Jack Covert Award.
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Shine Bright | An Excerpt from the 2022 Porchlight Narrative & Biography Book of the Year
The 2022 Narrative & Biography Book of the Year is Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop by Danyel Smith, published by Roc Lit 101.
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Beloved Economies | An Excerpt from the 2022 Management & Workplace Culture Book of the Year
The 2022 Management & Workplace Culture book of the year is Beloved Economies: Transforming How We Work by Jess Rimington and Joanna Levitt Cea, published by Page Two.
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The College Devaluation Crisis | An Excerpt from the 2022 Porchlight Big Ideas & New Perspectives Book of the Year
The 2022 Big Ideas & New Perspectives book of the year is The College Devaluation Crisis: Market Disruption, Diminishing ROI, and an Alternative Future of Learning by Jason Wingard, from Stanford Business Books.
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Pandemic Inc. | An Excerpt from the 2022 Porchlight Current Events & Public Affairs Book of the Year
The 2022 Current Events & Public Affairs book of the year is Pandemic Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick by J. David McSwane, from One Signal Publishers.
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Stolen Focus | An Excerpt from the 2022 Porchlight Personal Development & Human Behavior Book of the Year
The 2022 Personal Development & Human Behavior book of the year is Stolen Focus by Johann Hari, published by Crown.
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Inspired | An Excerpt from the 2022 Porchlight Innovation & Creativity Book of the Year
The 2022 Innovation & Creativity book of the year is Inspired by Matt Richtel, published by Mariner Books.
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How Minds Change | An Excerpt from the 2022 Porchlight Marketing & Communications/Sales & Influence Book of the Year
The 2022 Marketing & Communications/Sales & Influence book of the year is How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion by David McRaney, published by Portfolio.
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Dare to Un-Lead | An Excerpt from the 2022 Porchlight Leadership & Strategy Book of the Year
The 2022 Leadership & Strategy book of the year is Dare to Un-Lead: The Art of Relational Leadership in a Fragmented World by Céline Schillinger, published by Figure 1.
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The 2022 Porchlight Business Book Awards Shortlist
There isn’t anywhere better to slow down, to dive deeper into things, to learn about and reflect upon the world, than in a book. The best books transcend their time and space, even as they help us define our present moment and put it in context.
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Inside the 2022 Longlist | Big Ideas & New Perspectives
When we take a look beyond our own front doors to learn from the world around us, we might find that the ideas that feel like mere pipe dreams now can—and in some places, already have—become our reality.
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Inside the 2022 Longlist | Leadership & Strategy
Our Managing Director Sally Haldorson calls upon a short story of Raymond Carver's to help us understand why it seems so impossible, and why it's so important, to talk about leadership.
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Inside the 2022 Longlist | Personal Development & Human Behavior
We are creatures that need guidance, love, compassion, and (we believe in) books that bring us back to considering and working on ourselves, which is what this category is all about.
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Inside the 2022 Longlist | Narrative & Biography
Like fiction, narratives and biographies can help us empathize with and even inhabit, for a brief moment in the pages of a book, the mindsets and experiences of other people. It allows us to peek into the lives of individuals, see inside organizations, and visit other places without having to leave our reading chair.
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Inside the 2022 Longlist | Innovation & Creativity
These five books will prompt you to ask questions about yourself and the world around you, and it is in this inner-searching and outward observation that we will find, innovate, and create a better world for us all.
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Inside the 2022 Longlist | Current Events & Public Affairs
It seems like each and every category of our awards has elements of Current Events & Public Affairs percolating within them, but that doesn't negate the need for a dedicated category. These are the five best books in that space this year.
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An Excerpt from Dragon on Centre Street
In this excerpt from Dragon on Centre Street, New York Times reporter Jonah E. Bromwich recounts how he and his team covered the unfolding story of the unprecedented indictment of a former U.S. president.
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An Excerpt from The Power of Mattering
People thrive when they are seen, heard, and valued. Leadership development facilitator Zach Mercurio offers a simple framework for making workplace interactions more meaningful and affirmative.
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An Excerpt from Rethinking Medications
Many medications taken by Americans are either excessively expensive or carry significant risks. Dr. Jerry Avorn shares his insights on how we got here and proposes practical solutions to improve the system.
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An Excerpt from Unstoppable Entrepreneurs
Lori Rosenkopf, Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship at the Wharton School, offers a guidebook encouraging readers to tap into their entrepreneurial potential.
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An Excerpt from Validation
Clinical psychologist Caroline Fleck highlights validation—the acceptance of others' views and values—as a key to influencing others and fostering harmony in the workplace.
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An Excerpt from Meaningful Work
Wes Adams and Tamara Myles write that strong employee engagement, happiness, and productivity stem from leaders helping employees find meaning in their work.
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An Excerpt from Wild Courage
Google executive Jenny Wood writes about nine unconventional personal traits that, when effectively utilized, can lead to life-changing success.
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An Excerpt from What Your Comfort Costs Us
Fostering an inclusive workplace requires a collective effort. M. Gabriela Alcalde offers insights on cultivating empathy, challenging complacency, and encouraging authentic allyship.
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An Excerpt from You're the Boss
Executive coach Sabina Nawaz offers a guide on gracefully managing the pressures of power, helping readers become the leaders they aspire to be and whom others are excited to work with.
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An Excerpt from Managing Up
To cultivate a lasting professional relationship, focus on how you can help the other person, writes executive coach Melody Wilding.
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An Excerpt from Thriving Together
Expert community builder and former Buddhist monk David Viafora writes that the simple act of showing appreciation for one another has the power to nurture thriving communities.
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An Excerpt from Now It All Makes Sense
Alex Partridge, mental health advocate and host of the podcast ADHD Chatter, shares his life story and strategies for living and thriving with ADHD.
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An Excerpt from Predatory Data
To shape the future of tech, we must look to the past and draw from the traditions of the researchers, artists, and activists who have envisioned futures that defy probability, writes scholar Anita Say Chan.
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An Excerpt from Nonlinear
Kevin Bethune highlights the necessity of incorporating a broader range of perspectives in the design process, resulting in innovative solutions that more accurately reflect and address our diverse society.
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An Excerpt from Make Work Fair
Believing in equal opportunity is essential—but it isn’t enough. Offering an evidence-based blueprint, Make Work Fair shows you how to make it a reality, no matter your role, seniority, responsibilities, or where you are in the world.
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An Excerpt from Talk
Even the simplest conversations can be tricky, but when done well, they can become sources of immense joy that make us feel cherished and alive, writes Dr. Alison Wood Brooks.
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An Excerpt from The Seven Tensions of Negotiation
Sitting down to negotiate is like getting ready to throw or defend against a punch — we feel the tension. When we teach ourselves to feel, assess, neutralize, and respond to tension, we can successfully maneuver any negotiation.
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An Excerpt from Mindmasters
Algorithms influence our psychological experiences, often without our awareness. However, Sandra Matz argues that we can unite to leverage big data for our benefit. benefit.
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An Excerpt from F*ck Happiness
Artist and therapist Shawn Léon Nowotnik encourages readers to think beyond pursuing happiness and embrace all of life's complexities.
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An Excerpt from Extraordinary Learning for All
The leadership team at Transcend Education highlights insights from innovators in education and presents a framework for creating a more meaningful schooling experience for all students.
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An Excerpt from Main Street Millionaire
Codie Sanchez encourages readers to pursue entrepreneurship by taking a look at the established local businesses whose founders need successors to continue their legacies.
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An Excerpt from Unblock Your Purpose
Francesca Sipma, the founder of HypnoBreathwork®, offers a detailed guide to overcoming mental blocks, finding a flow state, and uncovering one's deeper life purpose.
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An Excerpt from Work-Life Tango
Corporate wellness advocate Kristel Bauer writes that achieving a work-life balance is not just about surviving—it's about thriving and finding the courage to embrace a fulfilling life.
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An Excerpt from Crisis Capable
Fabiana Lacerca-Allen uses her expertise in high-stakes negotiations to help readers navigate moral dilemmas and identify when to leave situations that conflict with their values.
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An Excerpt from Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age
Neurologist Richard Cytowic explores the connection between our Stone Age-wired brains and contemporary screen addictions, offering insights on how to regain calm and focus.
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An Excerpt from The Split
Shaun Rein writes that the Chinese consumer market has significant untapped potential, and recent economic policy changes offer investors an ideal opportunity to engage.
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An Excerpt from Ultimate Profit Management
Use this book as a guide. In it, the author covers the most important aspects of reasonable, prudent growth that will avoid debt and allow you, your partners, and business associates a productive and non-stressful existence with a business that grows and profits correctly.
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An Excerpt from The Five Talents That Really Matter
A former Gallup Global Leadership Research and Development leader demystifies the aura and complexity surrounding high performing leaders through original research and interviews with high-performing global leaders.
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An Excerpt from Shy by Design
Michael Thompson provides a powerful guide to leading with quiet conviction and uplifting others on the journey to success.
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An Excerpt from Taming Silicon Valley
Leading AI expert Gary Marcus simplifies the concept of artificial intelligence, highlights its potential and dangers, and emphasizes the need for accountability from policymakers and tech companies.
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An Excerpt from The Unlocked Leader
A practical and impactful guide to identify and free yourself from the mind-traps that hold you back so that you can become a powerful human leader and unlock extraordinary performance.
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An Excerpt from Likable Badass
Behavioral scientist Alison Fragale offers powerful new insights and a practical playbook for women to advance in any workplace, full of tips, tricks, and strategies to help secure that elusive corner office.
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An Excerpt from Give to Grow
"It's always your move and there's always a way to be helpful."
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An Excerpt from Thinking Bigger
A guide for women entrepreneurs to help them get the financing they need to build big businesses and change our world.
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An Excerpt from The Tree Collectors
Fifty gorgeously illustrated vignettes of remarkable people whose lives have been transformed by their obsessive passion for trees--from Amy Stewart, the New York Times bestselling author of The Drunken Botanist.
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An Excerpt from The Mind's Mirror
An exciting introduction to the true potential of AI from the director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
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An Excerpt from The 8 Laws of Customer-Focused Leadership
A leadership playbook for making customer experience a core aspect of your business.
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An Excerpt from The Power of Instinct
Award-winning Fortune 500 brand consultant and behavioral expert Leslie Zane shatters conventional marketing wisdom, showing readers how to tap into the hidden brain where instinct prevails, creating a powerful network of connections that drive people to buy your product, company, or vision.
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An Excerpt from Shocks, Crises, and False Alarms
An essential new guide to navigating macroeconomic risk.
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An Excerpt from Smart, Not Loud
Business communication expert Jessica Chen provides a complete guide to help individuals effectively advocate for themselves while maintaining authenticity in the workplace.
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An Excerpt from Unjust Debts
A groundbreaking look at the hidden role of bankruptcy in perpetuating inequality in America, from an expert in the field.
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An Excerpt from Assembling Tomorrow
A powerful guide to why even the most well-intentioned innovations go haywire, and the surprising ways we can change course to create a more positive future, by two celebrated experts working at the intersection of design, technology, and learning at Stanford University’s acclaimed d.school.
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An Excerpt from When We Are Seen
From one of the first and few women of color to reach the c-suite in Silicon Valley, Apple’s former chief of HR, co-creator of the Apple Store culture, and first VP of inclusion and diversity, comes a heartfelt story of growing up Black and female in a world with little regard for either and a practical road map for embodying the best in yourself and emboldening others along the way.
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An Excerpt from Stumbling Toward Inclusion
In her work with hundreds of companies and CEOs, Dr. Priya Nalkur has found that many leaders want to advance inclusion and equity in the workplace, but aren't sure how. Knowing that the stakes are high, leaders are afraid of messing up and saying the wrong thing. She has distilled her extensive coaching experience into a set of practical tools for navigating uncertain waters.
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An Excerpt from The Whole Story
Whole Foods Market’s Cofounder and CEO for 44 years, John Mackey offers an intimate and provocative account of the rise of this iconic company and the personal and spiritual journey that inspired its remarkable impact.
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An Excerpt from The Final Victory
In a novel that fuses the riveting action of The Boys in the Boat with the emotional heft of The Fault in Our Stars, twenty men and women with cancer-ridden bodies compete in a grueling race only to discover that real victory is achieved within.
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An Excerpt from Beyond Sorry
We have entered "The Era of the Apology." Ray Hennessey explains why apologies are so important, and how to get them right.
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An Excerpt from Beyond Getting By
Learn more about the elusive "happiness threshold" in this excerpt from a guide to living with money, not for money, from the women behind The Financial Diet.
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Navigating Success and Sustainability: Three Stories of Steward Leadership
The cry for a more inclusive form of capitalism is growing. But the irony is we are using the same tools that caused the excesses of shareholder capitalism—incentives and regulations—to drive responsible behavior. In his latest book, Rajeev Peshawaria suggests that ESG must upgrade to ESL, where the ‘L’ stands for Steward Leadership. In this excerpt, he highlights three companies doing it well.
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An Excerpt from Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America
From CBS News national correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti, a “vivid” (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author) and “stunning” (Booklist) character-driven call to action on our climate, told through the stories of the pioneering Americans working to persevere as leadership inaction risks the very survival of our heartland and hometowns.
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Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind
Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire's new book coincided serendipitously with the death of David Bowie.
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It's Not What You Say: How You Sell Your Message When It Matters Most
Pitch coach Michael Parker teaches how to sell our message, and ourselves, most effectively.
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Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
Amy Cuddy tells us how to use the power of presence to overcome our daily struggles and show up authentically ourselves.
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Driven to Delight: Delivering World-Class Customer Experience the Mercedes-Benz Way
Joseph Michelli explores how Mercedes-Benz went from being a company that delivered great cars to people to one that delivers great customer experiences, as well.
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We-Commerce : How to Create, Collaborate, and Succeed in the Sharing Economy
Billee Howard dispels some of the doom and gloom of recent books on technology and its effects we've covered here lately.
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The Giving Way to Happiness: Stories and Science Behind the Life-Changing Power of Giving
Jennifer Santi has a book on the power of giving and finding happiness in it that is perfect for the season.
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Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes—But Some Do
In his new book, Matthew Syed explains how mistakes and failures can be used to drive progress and innovation.
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The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World
Steven Radelet gives us a history of the the modern world that will lift the doom and gloom set upon us by the popular narrative in the news media.
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Why Should Anyone Work Here: What It Takes to Create an Authentic Organization
Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones talk about how the "old paradigm has flipped" with regards to organizations and employment, and authenticity is an organizational advantage all should tap into.
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Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works
Roger L. Martin & Sally R. Osberg define and document the growing field of social entrepreneurship.
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America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
Roger Lowenstein has written a brilliant book on the founding of the Federal Reserve that informs and echoes the issues and arguments of today.
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Little Rice: Smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese Dream
Clay Shirky dissects the state of globalization and its future by looking at the relationship of people to our smartphones, and the relationship of smartphones to the People's Republic of China.
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Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures Through the Science of Total Motivation
Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor explain why play, purpose, and potential are the best drivers of motivation and performance, and how to build (and build upon) them in your organization.
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Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family
In their new book, Bob Chapman and Raj Sisodia help us tap into "the extraordinary power of caring for your people like family."
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The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers
In her new book, Gillian Tett teaches us how to master silos so that they won't master us.
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Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants
Bethany McLean weaves a tale of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that enlightens, enrages, and educates.
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Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time
Jeffrey Pfeffer's new book is not filled with a whole lot of inspiration, and tells us why those that are can be dangerous.
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Why We Work
Barry Schwartz discusses what motivates us to work, and how to redesign our workplaces—and human nature along with it—armed with that knowledge.
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Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Jerry Kaplan discusses the dangers of artificial intelligence and how to prevent them from becoming a dystopic reality.
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We Are Market Basket: The Story of the Unlikely Grassroots Movement That Saved a Beloved Business
Daniel Korschun and Grant Welker tell a beautiful story of a company's employees, suppliers, and customers starting a movement to save its soul.
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Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking with People Who Think Differently
Angie McArthur & Dawna Markova have collaborated on a wonderful new book to teaches us all about collaborative intelligence.
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Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will
Geoff Colvin asks (and answers) As machines get better than us at almost every task—mental and physical—what jobs will be left for us to do?
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Shareology: How Sharing Is Powering the Human Economy
Bryan Kramer tells us that, in an increasingly digital world, the economy will become more human and be powered by a fundamental human behavior: sharing.
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The Revenue Growth Habit: The Simple Art of Growing Your Business by 15% in 15 Minutes Per Day
Alex Goldfayn gives busy businesspeople a quick and easy way, on quick and concise chapters, to drive revenue growth.
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Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Jay Samit tells us to be successful in life and business, we must continue to be disruptive—even, or especially, to ourselves.
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The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life
In his new book, Bernard Roth, a professor of engineering and academic director at Stanford's famous d. school, teaches us how to engineer a better life.
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Team Genius: The New Science of High-Performing Organizations
Two of our favorite writers, Rich Karlgaard and Michael S. Malone, have teamed up to tell us (and teach us) about the genius of teams.
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The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance
Red Hat's CEO Jim Whitehurst shares a manifesto for reorganizing your company.
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Your Strategy Needs a Strategy: How to Choose and Execute the Right Approach
Martin Reeves, Knut Haanaes, and Janmejaya Sinha of Boston Consulting Group provide a lesson on why our strategies need a strategy, and a guidebook to do it.
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Let the Elephants Run: Unlock Your Creativity and Change Everything
David Usher not only tells us that creativity is a lot of hard work, he teaches us how to do the work.
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Who Gets What—and Why by Alvin E. Roth
Alvin E. Roth's new book Who Gets What—and Why, schools us in how different markets work, and how to make them work better.
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
Sally reviews Richard Thaler's new book, Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics.
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The Seventh Sense: How Flashes of Insight Change Your Life
William Duggan is out to teach us all about our "seventh sense," how to improve it, and change our lives for the better.
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Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts—Becoming the Person You Want to Be
Marshall Goldsmith teaches us that regret can be a powerful impetus to begin behavior change, and teaches us a way to do it as adults.
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When to Rob a Bank ... and 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants
The Freakonomics phenomenon has brought a lot of lay readers to economic topics, particularly through its popular blog, the best of which is now a book!
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Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It
Dorie Clark returns with new wisdom on building your reputation as a thought leader. Find your idea—find your audience.
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Connection Culture
In Connection Culture, Michael Lee Stallard writes about why meeting human needs is not only the right thing to do, but also leads to better business results.
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Widgets
Widgets author Rodd Wagner tells us that "Employees are not your greatest asset" because "They're not yours, and they're not assets."
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A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life
A Curious Mind is, literally, that book, the right book for every reader. I cannot imagine there is anyone who would not benefit from Grazer and Fishman’s contribution to the most notable books of 2015.
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Do the Kind Thing by Daniel Lubetzky
Daniel Lubetzky's Do the Kind Thing is a great tale of a profitable, mission-driven business, and a great reminder to stick to our foundational values.
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Changing Your Company from the Inside Out: A Guide for Social Intrapreneurs
If corporations truly are people, then like all people it benefits us as a society if they're committed to making a social profit as well as a financial profit.
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The High Speed Company by Jason Jennings with Laurence Haughton
Jason Jennings is one of our favorite authors, and he is back with a book about instilling a sense of urgency within your company culture.
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Better and Faster: The Proven Path to Unstoppable Ideas
Jeremy Gutsche second great book teaches us how to avoid complacency with 6 ways to hunt for new ideas.
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Becoming the Best: Build a World-Class Organization Through Values-Based Leadership by Harry M. Kraemer
Harry Kraemer's follow up to From Values to Action is a how-to guide to applying values-based leadership principles in your daily life.
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The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs
Amy Wilkinson reveals the six skills shared by all great entrepreneurs.
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Frugal Innovation: How to Do More With Less by Navi Radjou & Jaideep Prabhu
PublicAffairs and The Economist team up with two brilliant authors to show us how to create more value with the increasingly limited resources available to us.
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Six Capitals, or Can Accountants Save the Planet? by Jane Gleeson-White
Jane Gleeson-White explains how accountants can save the planet by taking into account more than just financial and manufactured capital.
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The Internet Is Not the Answer by Andrew Keen
Andrew Keen explores the economic and cultural pitfalls of the Internet.
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Work Simply: Embracing the Power of Your Personal Productivity Style by Carson Tate
Carson Tate’s mission in life is also to help us get out from underneath it all, backed by the latest cognitive science.
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The Change Book: How Things Happen by Michael Krogerus & Roman Tschppeler
Krogerus and Tschäppeler's tiny and elegantly-designed book has a simple message: change.
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The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans at Everything
An easy-to-read and fast-paced exploration of the myriad issues raised by generative AI by the author of The Final Invention.
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Shot Ready
Shot Ready isn’t just a memoir. It’s a playbook for anyone chasing their potential.
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Self-Made Maverick: Break Free of Conventional Business Wisdom for Lasting Success
How the boldest entrepreneurs build empires—while others follow the rules
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You Already Know: The Science of Mastering Your Intuition
From celebrated business school professor and author of Edge, a research-backed framework for honing and harnessing your intuition to make the right decisions and attain greater levels of achievement.
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Move. Think. Rest.: Redefining Productivity & Our Relationship with Time
We’re experiencing a human revolution—not a tech revolution.
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Leading Through Free Fall: How Innovators Turn Turbulence into Trust
People aren't predictable-but your innovation leadership can be.
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Reach: Create the Biggest Possible Audience for Your Message, Book, or Cause
Cut through the noise and create the biggest possible audience for your work. This book offers a proven method for expanding your reach online so you can make a meaningful difference for others.
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Living a Committed Life: Finding Freedom and Fulfillment in a Purpose Larger Than Yourself
What would your life be like if you committed to something larger than yourself? Find out in the newest book from global transformation thought leader Lynne Twist.
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When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed, and How We Can Learn from Them
This groundbreaking, deeply reported work from CNBC’s Julia Boorstin reveals the key characteristics that help top female leaders thrive as they innovate, grow businesses, and navigate crises. "A must-read for all leaders as they consider the future of work” (Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author of Fair Play and Find Your Unicorn Space
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Being Present: Commanding Attention at Work (and at Home) by Managing Your Social Presence
Survival strategies for communicating in a notification-saturated world.
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Becoming Better: The Groundbreaking Science of Personal Transformation
What if you could unlock a path to realizing true personal transformation-not just doing better, but becoming better?
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Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save our future.
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Leading with Heart: Five Conversations That Unlock Creativity, Purpose, and Results
Two veteran executive coaches dispel the myth of one-size-fits-all leadership, showing instead how truly successful leaders allow themselves to be endlessly curious and inquisitive—the key to finding the strategies and insights that transform organizations.
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Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robot
A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James Suzman.
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The Power to Change: Stoic Strategies to Transform Your Life
YOU HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE, BUT KNOWING WHERE YOU WANT TO GO IS NOT ENOUGH. YOU ALSO NEED TO KNOW HOW TO GET THERE.
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Pioneers: 8 Principles of Business Longevity from Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Unlock the principles that drive the remarkable success stories of immigrant entrepreneurs from around the world.
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End of Spring Grab Bag Book Giveaway
Ten lucky winners will win two books and a tote bag in this week's giveaway!
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Simple Path to Wealth (Revised & Expanded 2025 Edition): Your Road Map to Financial Independence and a Rich, Free Life
The proven guide from the Godfather of Financial Independence—now comprehensively updated and expanded.
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Sing the Truth: The Kweli Journal Short Story Collection
A powerful must-read collection of bold BIPOC voices. All proceeds support The Kweli Journal’s mission to nurture emerging writers of color and foster a vibrant literary community.
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Joy Prescriptions: How I Learned to Stop Chasing Perfection and Embrace Connection
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The Sweaty Startup: How to Get Rich Doing Boring Things
Filled with common sense and practical, actionable, advice, Nick Huber’s book reveals that you don’t have to be a genius with a world-changing idea to build a business empire and become a multi-millionaire.
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The Spirit of Wealth Preservation: Leverage Your Finite Life for the Infinite Good
The Spirit of Wealth Preservation strikes at the heart of why we accumulate, preserve, and then transfer wealth. Readers are challenged with hard questions and relieved by unexpected answers.
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No New Things: A Radically Simple 30-Day Guide to Saving Money, the Planet, and Your Sanity
From award-winning sustainability expert Ashlee Piper, a witty, no-nonsense guide to regaining control over your time, consumerist impulses, and financial and mental wellness
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Shatterproof: How to Thrive in a World of Constant Chaos (and Why Resilience Alone Isn't Enough)
Are you working too much but feel like it’s never enough? Have you turned the act of pretending you’re “fine” into an art form? Does self-care feel like one more item on your already long to-do list?
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Meaningful Work: How to Ignite Passion and Performance in Every Employee
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The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking
A groundbreaking exploration of the science behind ideological thinking, from a pioneer in the emerging field of political neuroscience.
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The Dad Coach: How to Lead Kids to Succeed On and Off the Baseball Field
The New York Times bestselling author of The Matheny Manifesto offers the definitive guide to coaching youth baseball and instilling positive values on and off the field.
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Good Authority: How to Become the Leader Your Team Is Waiting For
Society’s current narrative of work/life balance is focusing on the wrong thing. It’s not about benefit packages, flexible work hours or ping pong but rather changing the experience of work itself. As a leader, your number one priority should be to create a work environment where personal and professional growth are one in the same.
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Learning to Trust Yourself: Breaking Through the Blocks That Hold You Back
A powerful guide to self-reliance, for anyone ready to unlock their inner genius and start living their most exceptional life![]()
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How to Get Along with Anyone: The Playbook for Predicting and Preventing Conflict at Work and at Home
Defuse any heated conflict by learning which of the five conflict styles you are and how to resolve even the most sensitive dispute with this must-read guide.
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Outmarket the Competition: Advanced Marketing Tactics to Drive Growth and Profitability
The ultimate marketing strategy to help SMB companies break sales plateaus and beat the competition.
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End of Awards Season Grab Bag Giveaway
We're cleaning house and culling books, and would like to give you some great books we have duplicate copies of.
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We Hold These Truths: How to Spot the Myths That Are Holding America Back
In this clear-eyed guide, America’s political experts cut through the spin and expose the myths holding our democracy back.
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Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future
Tech visionary Reid Hoffman shares his unique insider’s perspective on an AI-powered future, making the case for its potential to unlock a world of possibilities.
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This Is the Thing: About Life, Joy, and Owning Your Purpose
When it feels like there is something missing in life, it’s time to dig deep.
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Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America
A property law scholar uses the stories of two grandfathers—one white, one Black—who arrived in Detroit at the turn of the twentieth century to reveal how racist policies weaken Black families, widen the racial wealth gap, and derive profit from pain.
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How to Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists
Are you your own toughest critic? Learn to be good to yourself with this clear and compassionate guide.
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The Enduring Enterprise: How Family Businesses Thrive in Turbulent Conditions
Family businesses thrive in some of the world's toughest environments, providing vital lessons for businesses everywhere.
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The Essentialism Planner: A 90-Day Guide to Accomplishing More by Doing Less
Do less and accomplish more in all areas of your life with this 90-day planner based on the million-copy bestseller Essentialism.
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The Non-Obvious Guide to Drawing Your Future: Solve Problems, Explain Ideas, Sell Anything
Patti Dobrowolski unveils the transformative power of visual thinking in shaping personal and professional trajectories.
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Earn It: Unconventional Strategies for Brave Marketers
Don’t buy, steal, hijack, or interrupt—earn your audience’s attention by doing the hard work and creating content they actually want.
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The Way Home: Discovering the Hero's Journey to Wholeness at Midlife
A guidebook for those at midlife struggling to find themselves, deftly applying Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey to the modern reader’s quest for wholeness.
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Extraordinary Doctor: How Emotional Intelligence Drives a Physician's Success
Discover the essential people skills you didn't learn in medical school,
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Don't Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is the Beginning & End of Suffering
Learn how to overcome anxiety, self-doubt, and self-sabotage without needing to rely on motivation or willpower—now in a beautiful, expanded edition with even more personalized guidance.
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Unruly: A Guide to Reclaiming Your True Self
A guide for women of all shapes and sizes who are in the bold process of going beyond stereotypes to find the truth of who they are
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Pivot or Die: How Leaders Thrive When Everything Changes
From Gary Shapiro, New York Times bestselling author and head of CES and the Consumer Technology Association, a manifesto for today’s top executives, entrepreneurs, and leaders: pivot or die.
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Non-Obvious Thinking: How to See What Others Miss
Shift Your Perspective. Be More Non-Obvious.
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Priceless Facts about Money
Debut author Mellody Hobson, barrier-breaking pioneer in the world of finance, demystifies money for kids with a look at some wild and weird facts about what makes the world go round.
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Lead, Follow, or Fail: The Human Struggle for Productivity, and how Nations, Organizations, and People will Prosper in our Changing World
A thought-provoking exploration of our world's economic past, present, and future.
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End of Summer Grab Bag Giveaway
We're cleaning house and culling books, and would like to give you some of our favorite doubles.
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Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America
In her review of Bad Law, Isabel Behling discusses how Elie Mystal blends sharp wit with insightful critiques of ten laws that perpetuate injustice and inequality in the United States today.
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The Everything War: Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
Dana Mattoli's book, The Everything War, uncovers Amazon's harmful impact on small businesses and underscores the need to shop local and invest in our communities.
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Time Anxiety: The Illusion of Urgency and a Better Way to Live
In Time Anxiety, author and entrepreneur Chris Guillebeau explores how we perceive and manage our time, prompting readers to reassess their relationship with time in unexpected ways.
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Church Camp: Bad Skits, Cry Night, and How White Evangelicalism Betrayed a Generation
Theologian Cara Meredith deconstructs the existing framework of the evangelical church camp experience, offering a hopeful direction that fosters a sense of community and inclusion instead of fear.
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Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
Anne-Laure Le Cunff's new book offers a clear and inspiring guide for readers to harness their curiosity and craft a more meaningful and interesting life.
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Make Magic: The Book of Inspiration You Didn't Know You Needed
Brad Meltzer's new book reminds us to show up as our best selves while recognizing and supporting each other's potential.
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From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard to Reclaim My Legacy
Tamara Lanier's memoir compels readers to confront challenging questions about American history and the profound, lasting impact of slavery on our society.
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We Need Your Art: Stop Messing Around and Make Something
Amie McNee guides readers in recognizing and expressing their creativity in a meaningful and sustainable way.
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Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember
According to psychology professors Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy, what we often view as flaws in our memory processes are actually some of our brains’ most powerful features.
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Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company
Reporter Alice Driver highlights the courage and determination of immigrant workers in their fight against the largest meatpacking company in America.
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Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
Propaganda Girls highlights the lives of four remarkable women during World War II and emphasizes the importance of a workplace culture that champions employee autonomy.
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Sun & Ssukgat: The Korean Art of Self-Care, Wellness & Longevity
Michelle Jungmin Bang writes that the keys to health and longevity are found in timeless recipes and wisdom passed down through generations and in the community bonds we create.
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Close to Home: The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door
Exploring the species in our backyard can lead to scientific discovery and environmental conservation, writes natural historian Thor Hanson.
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The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas about How to Be a Good Mom
Nancy Reddy challenges the common misconceptions about being a "good" mom, emphasizing that everyone thrives best in a supportive community rather than in isolation.
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Bread and Milk
In her memoir, Swedish novelist Karolina Ramqvist dives headfirst into the complex relationship between a woman and what she chooses to eat.
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Who Better Than You?: The Art of Healthy Arrogance & Dreaming Big
Film and television producer Will Packer shares lessons from his life and career, reminding us that while the road to success isn’t always straightforward, it can certainly be interesting.
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More Than Words: How to Think about Writing in the Age of AI
Writing teacher John Warner posits that the innately human ability to think and feel makes us irreplaceable in the age of artificial intelligence.
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How to Raise a Citizen (and Why It's Up to You to Do It)
In her new book, political science professor Lindsey Cormack delivers a practical guide for cultivating civic engagement in young people.
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Love Is My Favorite Flavor: A Midwestern Dining Critic Tells All
In her memoir, Wini Moranville recounts her decades-long career in the food industry and celebrates the magic of everyday moments of human connection.
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The Air They Breathe: A Pediatrician on the Frontlines of Climate Change
A pediatrician reveals the profound impact of climate change on children's health and emphasizes our moral responsibility to safeguard our most vulnerable.
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The Outsider Advantage: Because You Don't Need to Fit in to Win
Fashion designer and entrepreneur Ciera Rogers inspires anyone who has felt underestimated to tap into their innate talents and personal experiences to create their unique path to success.
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Hip-Hop Is History
2023 marked the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. Questlove helped tell that story at the 2023 Grammys, but that event is just the Introduction to the fuller, more personal history told in his new book on the topic.
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The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging
Through compelling science reporting and storytelling, journalist Julia Hotz investigates the profound impact of social connections and community engagement on our health.
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Wonderland: A Tale of Hustling Hard and Breaking Even
In her memoir, Nicole Treska reflects on her complex family history, reframing her memories from a source of difficulty to an opportunity for connection.
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The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times
Robin Reames has written a powerful guide to parsing political rhetoric that looks at how experiments in self-governance have been ended in the past and offers tools for thinking that can help us preserve our own.
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A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest
Charlie J. Stephens' new book explores the inner life of a child finding escape from the harsh realities of life in a small Oregon town in the natural world around them.
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Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real about the End
Alua Arthur’s exploration of mortality and stories about the end of life reveal the wonder that it is to be alive, and offer us a reminder to revel in it.
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Other People's Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End
In her deeply personal exploration of grief, Lissa Soep examines how the words left behind by our departed loved ones continue to influence us.
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Puerto Rico: A National History
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo provides an insightful overview of Puerto Rico's history, highlighting its people's resilience and exploring the possibilities of its future.
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Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
Slow Noodles is a powerful memoir that illustrates how food can preserve a Cambodian refugee's connection to her past and inspire hope for a better future.
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Bite Your Friends: Stories of the Body Militant
Fernanda Eberstadt sheds light on the lives of academics, artists, and activists throughout history, inspiring readers to learn from their stories of love, loss, and resistance.
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Languishing: How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down
Sociologist Corey Keyes demonstrates that flourishing doesn’t require an overhaul of our entire life but a steady practice of interpersonal connection and finding joy in the simple things.
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Never Not Working: Why the Always-On Culture Is Bad for Business—And How to Fix It
If technology has made it easier to work more effectively, why do so many still feel overwhelmed? To uncover the answers, Malissa Clark guides readers through the landscape of modern workaholism.
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Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis has pronounced capitalism dead. Even if you don’t believe it is worth saving, you’ll probably agree that what has replaced it is even more oppressive. But there may be a means for emancipation in the tools of our current exploitation.
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Tell Me When It's Over
Pediatrician and vaccine expert Paul A. Offit provides an informative and accessible guide to navigating our changed world in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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I Am Only a Foreigner Because You Do Not Understand
Despite the book's theme of being misunderstood, I find the sparse text of this graphic novel to make the author's feelings very understandable.
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Chinese Prodigal: A Memoir in Eight Arguments
In his debut memoir, David Shih weaves his personal narrative with the history of a racially divided nation, shining light on the complexity of Asian American identity.
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The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science
Furthering our understanding of existential issues like human consciousness and free will is increasingly relevant to decisions we make about the existential problems we face. Erik Hoel's new book is a gift that helps us do just that.
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The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work
Simone Stolzoff reminds us that work is only a single facet of our lives—when we nourish the other identities that reside within us, we are much better for it.
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On an Ebbing Seafoam Tide
Alannah Radburn unabashedly shares pieces of herself that others might hide from strangers but that we should be more open about: the overly arduous fight for justice that women endure, the strength it takes to leave a bad relationship, a queer love story without stigma.
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Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of Change
Yasmine El Rashidi gives us an update on the situation in Egypt through the lens of the country's hip hop scene.
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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: A Novel
There are many love letters to books out there, but what Satoshi Yagisawa celebrates in this novel is not just books themselves, but how books can transform us.
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Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to Value the Planet, Solve the Climate Crisis, and Protect Our Most Precious Assets
Paula DiPerna writes beautifully about the moral bankruptcy of how value is assigned in our society, and of the sensible, sustainable ways we can flip the script to repair our economics and environment.
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Korea: A New History of South and North
Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo offer readers a solid foundation on the histories of North and South Korea that will add much-needed context to any conversation on Korean politics and culture.
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All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive
Rainesford Stauffer reminds us that it is not enough to be ambitious, and just how harmful personal ambition can be. The question is: what are we ambitious about?
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The Case for Good Jobs: How Great Companies Bring Dignity, Pay, and Meaning to Everyone's Work
Good jobs can be hard to find. But, as I learned early in life, they can also be found in the most unexpected of places. MIT Sloan professor Zeynep Ton has a new book explaining how they're created.
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The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams
"Let's get real or let's not play." Seth Godin's new manifesto for teams is about working well, leading well, and playing well with others.
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Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul
By introducing new categories of changemakers, Dorcas Cheng-Tozun encourages readers to identify their passions and then leverage them to create change, rather than abiding by a one-size-fits-all ideal.
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The Phoenix Economy: Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal
"The idea behind this book," writes Felix Salmon, "is that the unexpected isn’t over." A pronouncement like that offers both great hope and caution, and acts as an important reminder.
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Birth: Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America
“This is the birth system that most expectant mothers encounter in America,” Rebecca Grant writes in the opening of her new book, Birth. “But what if it could be different?”