Staff Picks Book Reviews
Porchlight is a company filled with voracious readers—talented, creative individuals who know books, and who excel at moving them. Whenever we can, we like to do that by telling you about the books we’re reading.
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Story Driven: You Don't Need to Compete When You Know Who You Are
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
Bernadette Jiwa teaches us to be better marketers, marketers who insist on authenticity and truth, and so much more in the process.
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Fall Favorites by and for Feminists (by which I mean, everyone.)
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
New business books, recently released and upcoming, written by women.
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The Power of Onlyness: Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
Nilofer Merchant’s message is so critical now, calling us to identify what is good in ourselves and to connect with what is good in others so that, together, we can dent the world.
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End of Summer Staff Reading
Book Review by Porchlight
Here's what our staff has been reading during the gorgeous Milwaukee summer.
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Hunch: Turn Your Everyday Insights Into the Next Big Thing
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
Bernadette Jiwa's new book is a reminder that we shouldn't surrender our human faculty to the advance of big data.
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How Cycling Can Save the World
Book Review by Blyth Meier
A manifesto for everyday cycling from The Guardian's Peter Walker is an urgent call for today's world.
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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.
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Redefining Resilience and Telling a New Life Story: Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant's Option B
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
This is what Option B offers: for the grieving, a guide to recovery and resilience; for the empathetic, a guide to responding and respecting others whose life stories we can’t pretend to know.
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The Language of Loss is the Language of Life
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
Facing the loss of life requires a new kind of language, one that isn't secret, but shared.
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Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
Book Review by Blyth Meier
Adam Alter shines a light on behavioral addiction, and re-orients our relationship with the technologies we live with every day.
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