Blog
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Career Benefits of Writing Without Bullshit
By Josh Bernoff
"Clarity. Boldness. We say that we value these qualities in communication at work. So why is nearly everything we read so full of bullshit? Our inboxes, browsers, and smartphone screens are filled with jargon-laden, meandering drivel. Why can't people get to the point and say what they mean? [...] After 35 years of reading and writing for work, I decided to face this problem head-on: to determine what causes bullshit, and how we can all learn to write without it. The problem is real. And the solution is within reach. It's just a question of committing yourself to writing without bullshit."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Turning Points: The Key to Success and Accomplishment in Life
By Bernie Swain
"In less than a decade, the company I co-founded and built, the Washington Speakers Bureau, became the world's biggest player in that business—and remains so now, more than 30 years after I took the sharp turn that reshaped my life. We have represented world leaders—including Presidents Reagan and both Bushes and four Prime Ministers of Great Britain—as well as business visionaries, sports legends, and leading journalists and authors. Over the course of the years, I have gotten close to many of my clients. And yes, they are a spectacularly accomplished group. But the secret sauce that is responsible for so much of their success isn't their talent per se. Instead, it is how they have dealt with the key turning points in their lives."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / Book Giveaways
The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century
By Porchlight
Ryan Avent's new book explores the future of work and society.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Interviews
Shadow Courts: The Tribunals That Rule Global Trade
By Porchlight
In Shadow Courts, Haley Sweetland Edwards reports on the particulars, and the particular problems, of Investor-State Dispute Settlement, the shadow courts that rule international trade.
Categories: interviews
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Utopia is Creepy: And Other Provocations
Book Review by Porchlight
Nicholas Carr reminds us that digital utopianism is just like all the utopias that came before it—unrealistic and a little creepy.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / New Releases
What Made Me Who I Am
By Porchlight
In his new book, Bernie Swain captures the transformational stories of a generation of leaders he's come to know while representing them at the Washington Speakers Bureau.
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award Shortlist
By Porchlight
The shortlist for the 2016 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award has been announced.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Second Shift: The Inside Story of the Keep GM Movement
By Porchlight
David Hollister, Ray Tadgerson, David Closs, and G. Tomas M. Hult tell the story of something that's happened precious little in the so-called American Rust Belt—fought to keep a factory that was slated to close in town.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / New Releases
Business Books to Watch in September
By Porchlight
These are just some of the great business books being released in September.
Categories: new-releases, narrative-biography, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
Book Review by Porchlight
Robert Cialdini is back more than thirty years after his classic, Influence, with a new book on the topic from another
Categories: editors-choice
