Blog in Narrative & Biography
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Blog / News & Opinion
The 5-8-40 Business Gift Book Club
By Porchlight
Impress your boss or empower your employees with books to help them grow... or just treat that special business someone in your life.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / Excerpts
Chinese Rules
By Porchlight
Tim Clissold's Mr. China is one of the great books on China's rise. He is now back with a new book, Chinese Rules, to update the situation there.
Categories: excerpts, narrative-biography
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Blog / News & Opinion
Martha Stewart and a Midwestern Blacksmith
By Porchlight
There are scores of makers in Milwaukee (and in your city) doing fantastic work you can't find at the Box and Everything stores.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography, the-company
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Blog / Interviews
Thinker in Residence - John Hope Bryant on Business and Books
By Porchlight
"It’s not like we delivered 'the memo' and poor, working class and middle class folks flubbed it and failed the test. We were simply never given the memo. " ~John Hope Bryant
Categories: interviews, narrative-biography
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Blog / Interviews
Thinker in Residence: A Q&A with John Hope Bryant
By Porchlight
"As I looked around me, throughout the course of my life, it just dawned on me that Americans' and America’s real value was hiding in plain sight. " ~John Hope Bryant
Categories: interviews, narrative-biography
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Blog / News & Opinion
A Covert Departure
By Porchlight
Today is officially the last day of Jack Covert's tenure as President of 800-CEO-READ, a company he founded and has led since 1984. If it were up to us as a staff, we would find some grand gesture to mark the occasion. We would release a flock of exquisite birds in his honor, or etch "Thanks, Jack" onto the face of the moon.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / Staff Picks
Women Authors, Business Women
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
Upon first glance at this post, you may feel compelled to ask: why are you singling out business books written by women authors about women in business, directed (at least to some degree) to a female audience? Well, because the reality is that, according to the U. S.
Categories: staff-picks, narrative-biography
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Elite Eight: Our Picks for the Top Business Books of 2013
By Sally Haldorson
Click on the links below to read more about our choices for the top books of 2013, as well as the books that made our category shortlists. We will be announcing the Best Business Book of 2013 at our (mostly) annual We Believe in Books party in NYC the second week of January. Stay tuned!
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards: Sales & Marketing
By Sally Haldorson
The entries were submitted, the books were read, the shortlists determined, and we are now ready to announce the category winners of the 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards! In the Sales & Marketing category. .
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography
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Blog / News & Opinion
2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards: Entrepreneurship & Small Business
By Sally Haldorson
The entries were submitted, the books were read, the shortlists determined, and we are now ready to announce the category winners of the 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards! In the Entrepreneurship & Small Business category. .
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography
