Book Excerpts
Especially when buying books in bulk, it can help to read the first few pages—or chapters—before making a final decision. We share excerpts from upcoming and newly released business books and other nonfiction genres to help guide your next purchasing decision.
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Think Big, Act Bigger: The Rewards of Being Relentless
By Porchlight
Jeffrey Hayzlett tells you to think big and act bigger, because you can.
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Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures Through the Science of Total Motivation
By Porchlight
Neel Doshi and Lindsay Mcgregor explain how "How Whole Foods Can Weather The Current Storm" by doing more of the same.
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Simple Sabotage: A Modern Field Manual for Detecting and Rooting Out Everyday Behaviors That Undermine Your Workplace
By Porchlight
Robert M Galford, Bob Frisch, and Cary Greene take a look at a declassified intelligence manual for insights on how individuals inside your organization may be destroying it from within.
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Remix Strategy: The Three Laws of Business Combinations
By Porchlight
In which Benjamin Gomes-Casseres teaches us how a common method used deejays and artists can be applied to business.
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Boss Life: Surviving My Own Small Business
By Porchlight
Paul Downs takes readers through a year in the life of running his small business, exposing all the ups and downs of being a boss.
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Make it Matter: How Managers Can Motivate by Creating Meaning
By Porchlight
Scott Mautz asks us "Do you matter at work?" and teaches managers how to make sure their employees feel they do.
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Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
By Porchlight
Digital media innovator Jay Samit investigates disruption's lessons for the entrepreneur.
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No One Ever Told Us That: Money and Life Lessons for Young Adults
By Porchlight
Acclaimed investment advisor and novelist John Spooner has a new book of practical advice for any young person just getting a start in life.
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The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity from Pirates, Hackers, Gangsters, and Other Informal Entrepreneurs
By Porchlight
Alexa Clay & Kyra Maya Phillips look for innovation in the worlds of black, grey, and informal economies.
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The ABCs of Success
By Porchlight
The best of motivational legend Bob Proctor's popular radio shows have been selected and edited into book form, from A to Z, in The ABCs of Success.
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