Blog / Staff Picks

Double Bind: Women on Ambition

Book Review by Sally Haldorson

Robin Romm has edited a book of essays from successful women that takes on "the last feminist taboo"—ambition.

Blog / Excerpts

Good People: The Only Leadership Decision That Really Matters

By Porchlight

In Good People, Anthony Tjan explains how kindness and caring for others is good for business.

Blog / Editor's Choice

The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States

Book Review by Porchlight

Benjamin C. Waterhouse opens up the grand sweep of American history by looking at it from a business perspective.

Blog / News & Opinion

Legends and Losers Podcast: The Power of Business Books with our General Manager Sally Haldorson

By Porchlight

Our General Manager Sally Haldorson talks with Christopher Lochhead about the power of business books, and how "our company is the reverse of an algorithm."

Blog / New Releases

The CEO Pay Machine

By Porchlight

Steven Clifford's new book on CEO compensation "demolishes the prevailing business orthodoxy that has led to its enormous and immensely damaging rise."

Blog / Book Giveaways

Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know about Success Is (Mostly) Wrong

By Porchlight

Eric Barker's new book brings the "science-based answers and expert insight on how to be awesome at life" approach he takes on his blog to hardcover.

Blog / Excerpts

Problem Solved: A Powerful System for Making Complex Decisions with Confidence and Conviction

By Porchlight

In this excerpt, Cheryl Strauss Einhorn explains the AREA Method and how it can help you make informed decisions in an uncertain world.

Blog / Editor's Choice

The CEO Pay Machine: How it Trashes America and How to Stop it

Book Review by Porchlight

Steven Clifford chronicles the inexorable rise of CEO pay, how it harms companies, curbs economic growth, and undermines democracy, and how we can fix it.

Blog / New Releases

One Minute Mentoring: How to Find and Work with a Mentor—And Why You'll Benefit from Being One

By Porchlight

Legendary management guru Ken Blanchard and Claire Diaz-Ortiz, a former Twitter executive and early employee, have teamed up to illustrate why mentoring is the secret ingredient to professional and personal success

Blog / Excerpts

No One Ever Drowned in Sweat: G.R.I.T. - The Stuff of Leaders and Champions

By Porchlight

Scott Petinga wants to help you develop the qualities needed to slay giants—to overcome obstacles in both your own life and out in the wider world.