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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for October 2017
By Porchlight
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for October 2017.
Categories: the-company
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Grow Wherever You Work: Straight Talk to Help with Your Toughest Challenges
By Porchlight
Joanna Barsh addresses the toughest challenges of life at work with an unflinching eye and a helping hand.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Shortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking
Book Review by Porchlight
Alice Echols tells the story of her grandfather, It's a Wonderful Life, and a lie at the heart of the American narrative.
Categories: editors-choice, narrative-biography
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
By Porchlight
Jocko Willink's new book is a series of meditations, both mental and physical, a training manual for the mind and the body.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Open Source Leadership: Reinventing Management When There's No More Business as Usual
By Porchlight
Rajeev Peshawarian, former CLO of both Coca-Cola and Morgan Stanley, believes that people management practices must change in ways that seem counterintuitive, if not downright contrarian.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
The Startup Way: How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth
Book Review by Porchlight
Eric Ries has written both a philosophical treatise for a new form of management and an entrepreneurial engineering guide to doing the work on the ground.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / ChangeThis
Giving Voice to the Voiceless
By Porchlight
"My son is wise beyond his years, even if from the outside you might have a different perception. Below is Payam's full message written on the alphabet board, it took about five minutes for him to spell it out letter by letter: "I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO SEES THIS AND BEGINS TO SHIFT THEIR PERSPECTIVE TO HAVE MORE BELIEF IN ALL OF HUMANITY." How many times have we been told not to judge a book by its cover? How often do we fail and completely judge others based on what we think is "normal" or acceptable? How do we know what they are thinking or feeling, if they are not able to tell us in the ways that we are used to? Why do we presume to know their cognitive levels or what they will be capable of in life? Who are we to judge?"
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Why We Need a Take Our Daughters to WORTH Day
By Porchlight
"The Take Your Daughter To Work Day movement has succeeded. Girls today can enter any professional they choose. They can start their own businesses, advance their careers, and assume leadership roles in their organizations. We have achieved so much. But our work is not finished. I think we have new work to do. It is not an option to stand by passively as the first generation of digital native girls comes of age and struggles—feeling isolated, unworthy, under pressure, and filled with doubt. That is why I propose we update the Take Our Daughters to Work movement with a Take Our Daughters to WORTH Day."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Someday is Not a Day in the Week: Create More Meaningful Work ... Now Not Someday
By Sam Horn
"The premise of this manifesto is, as my millennial friend Jackie put it, 'What if work didn't have to suck?' What if, instead of accepting a toxic work situation and/or waiting for it to get better, we took personal responsibility to make it better? What if there were ways to make work more meaningful right where we are, right now? The good news is, there are career hacks you can use to create meaningful work so it's more like you want it to be. And you don't have to win the lottery to do it."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
There Are No Strangers Here: A Rising Tribe Lifts All Boats
By Sally Haldorson
"Maybe my story wasn't a big story. I hadn't begun a new company, or invented a new product. I hadn't yet written a book. I didn't have as prominent a voice or as large a platform from which to speak as some of the others. But I did truly believe that my story was emblematic of the cumulative work all feminists have labored under with every act that inches us toward equality, and emblematic of the struggles all professional women face as we labor toward our dreams. I had my life, and I had my work, and I was simultaneously blessed and burdened by the effort to maximize the potential of both."
Categories: changethis, managing-directors-cut
