Blog / New Releases

Books to Watch | August 3, 2021

By Dylan Schleicher, Gabbi Cisneros, Emily Porter

Blog / Staff Picks

Social Warming: The Dangerous and Polarising Effects of Social Media

Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros

A new book that shows how social media is doing more than enabling harmful behavior, it is structurally facilitating that behavior and profiting off of it too.

Blog / Book Giveaways

A Minute to Think: Reclaim Creativity, Conquer Busyness, and Do Your Best Work

By Porchlight

Do you wish you could stop the mayhem of work and life and just take a minute? Do you sense you could contribute more if there were a little more room in the day? Does busyness deprive you and your burnt-out team of the oxygen your talents need to catch fire? Many have felt that way, yet taking a pause has seemed impossible—until now.

Blog / Staff Picks

A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States

Book Review by Bryan Rogers

Eric D. Weitz performs what amounts to a living autopsy on the history and health of the nation-state dating back nearly two hundred years.

Blog / Staff Picks

The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence

Book Review by Emily Porter

Stephen Kurczy, a journalist who ventures to this small town looking for some silence of his own, finds a reality that is rarely known in today’s modern world.

Blog / Staff Picks

Go Where There Is No Path: Stories of Hustle, Grit, Scholarship, and Faith

Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros

Christopher Gray wants people to see an outsider's success as earned, not a fluke, and for entrepreneurs to know that for-profit companies, just as well as non-profits, can be good companies that offer solutions to social issues.

Blog / Staff Picks

A Minute to Think: Reclaim Creativity, Conquer Busyness, and Do Your Best Work

Book Review by Dylan Schleicher

Overwork is glorified in our culture, but it is undermining our overall performance. Instead of suggesting we need to push through, Juliet Funt offers us a thoughtful way out.

Blog / ChangeThis

Today’s True Competitive Advantage: Blending the Best of Digital and Physical

By Robert Siegel

Today’s true competitive advantage, for your career or your entire organization, is understanding how digital and physical excellence can reinforce each other, achieving more in coordination than either kind of mastery can in isolation. The idea that these worlds are in fundamental conflict is dangerous and shortsighted. … Building that powerful partnership is the most important issue facing companies today.

Blog / New Releases

Books to Watch | July 27, 2021

By Dylan Schleicher, Gabbi Cisneros, Emily Porter

Blog / Staff Picks

Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century

Book Review by Dylan Schleicher

Reading award-winning Wall Street Journal tech and auto reporter Tim Higgins's wonderful and in-depth new book about the history of Tesla, I couldn't help wondering what the story would have been like without the oversized ego of Elon Musk involved, or help thinking that I'd like to read that story more.