Blog / Editor's Choice

Life's Great Question: Discover How You Contribute To The World

Book Review by Dylan Schleicher

"Self-awareness is extremely important. But getting to know yourself is important primarily, Tom Rath believes, because it allows you to connect and contribute to the lives of others."

Blog / ChangeThis

Permanent Disequilibrium: Finance as an Industry of Sabotage

By Anastasia Nesvetailova, Ronen Palan

"It is quite difficult to make sense of finance today by relying on textbook approaches, wherever their intellectual or political affinities may lie. To understand the remarkable persistence and prevalence of rogue behaviour, we returned to the ideas of a school of thought, often ignored nowadays, known as the old institutional economics (OIE)."

Blog / New Releases

Books to Watch | February 4, 2020

By Porchlight

Blog / Book Giveaways

Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word: How Six Everyday Products Make the Case for Trade

By Porchlight

Trade myths, busted and debunked, with the help of six surprising everyday goods—the taco salad, the Honda Odyssey, the banana, the iPhone, the college degree, and the blockbuster HBO series Game of Thrones

Blog / Editor's Choice

Sabotage: The Hidden Nature of Finance

Book Review by Dylan Schleicher

“The very idea of a ‘free’ market has become synonymous with an ‘unregulated’ market—one that is unaccountable to the wider public that must act as a lender of last resort when their financial machinations come to a grinding halt due to an engineering flaw of their own design.”

Blog / News & Opinion

Scenes from the 2019 Porchlight Business Book Awards Party

By Dylan Schleicher

A peak inside the business book awards and industry appreciation event we hosted this year in New York City, honoring those in the publishing industry whose work makes our work possible.

Blog / ChangeThis

The #MeToo Movement in the Corporate World: Power, Privilege, and the Path Forward

By Sylvia Ann Hewlett

"There are clear steps that all of us can take to help make sure that everyone has the opportunity to fulfill their professional potential in a safe, welcoming workplace."

Blog / New Releases

Books to Watch | January 28, 2020

By Porchlight

Blog / Book Giveaways

The Self-Evolved Leader: Elevate Your Focus and Develop Your People In a World That Refuses to Slow Down

By Porchlight

"A practical guide to help executives and managers at all levels adopt a new way of leading in our fast-moving world."

Blog / ChangeThis

Making Honest Conversations the Norm

By Michael Beer

"Much-admired companies needlessly sacrifice their competitive advantage. Some make huge ethical blunders. Shareholders suffer huge losses in value while employees, customers and society lose trust and confidence in the institution. Why wouldn’t we want to change this? It’s time for honest conversations that enable employees to speak truth to power to go from being fairly unusual to being the norm in organizations."