Uncategorized Posts
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Blog / Excerpts
How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
By Porchlight
For those of us that spend too much time looking at our phones and not enough time looking at each other, Catherine Price's newest book is here for us and our struggle to reclaim our time IRL.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It
Book Review by Porchlight
Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik have written a book about the increasing complexity of the world that makes it easy to understand, and oddly enjoyable to read.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / Book Giveaways
How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind
By Porchlight
Leah Weiss brings the lessons from her Stanford course on Leading with Mindfulness and Compassion out of the classroom, and into a bookstore near you.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Excerpts
Story Driven: You Don't Need to Compete When You Know Who You Are
By Porchlight
If you want to build a great company, a thriving entrepreneurial venture, or a fulfilling career, Bernadette Jiwa's latest book proves you don't need to compete when you know who you are.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance—and What We Can Do About It
Book Review by Porchlight
Jeffrey Pfeffer explains why making employee health and well-being integral to the company’s culture and values is not only good for the employees, but a competitive advantage that is also good for the company’s bottom line.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Soon: An Overdue History of Procrastination, from Leonardo and Darwin to You and Me
By Porchlight
Andrew Santella has written "An entertaining, fact-filled defense of the nearly universal tendency to procrastinate."
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
Book Review by Porchlight
Claire Evans tells the story of the computer, and the internet, through the women who developed the languages they speak.
Categories: editors-choice, narrative-biography
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Blog / ChangeThis
Why Is Diversity Important? The Answer Might Surprise You
By Chris Clearfield
"Pundits and business gurus often talk about how diversity can spark creativity and innovation. Diversity, they tell us, is supposed to be something beautiful: Different people come together to learn from one another and create an inclusive team that's more than the sum of its parts. Everyone brings something special to the table, and the collaboration of unique individuals leads to amazing new ideas. But it turns out that diversity is often more painful than beautiful—and that's exactly why it's so valuable in complex environments. It helps because it makes things harder."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
For Outstanding Performance, Change How You Solve Problems
By Karen Martin
"Ask any business leader if he or she is good at solving problems and the likely response is, 'Of course!' After all, business leaders spend a lot of their time navigating problems. If they weren't good at it, those leaders would lose their jobs, wouldn't they? Not if the organization doesn't know what robust problem solving looks like. Most organizations don't and as a result they perform below their potential."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
A Better Business through a Great Place to Work for All
By The Great Place to Work Research Team
"What it means to be a great workplace has evolved. We have entered a new era, a new frontier in business. Our economy has evolved through agrarian, industrial, and 'knowledge' phases to the point where the essential qualities of human beings—things like passion, creativity, and a willingness to work together—are the most critical. In this 'human economy,' every employee matters. "
Categories: changethis