Uncategorized Posts
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life
Book Review by Porchlight
Amy E. Herman has turned her wildly successful class on the art of perception into a book perfectly suited for observing, surviving, and getting the most out of business and in life today's fast moving and ever-changing world.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / Excerpts
The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence
By Porchlight
Dacher Keltner has written a "revolutionary and timely reconsideration of everything we know about power."
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Excerpts
The Purpose Effect: Building Meaning in Yourself, Your Role and Your Organization
By Porchlight
Dan Pontefract explains why he uses the term team member instead of employee.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / New Releases
O Great One!: A Little Story about the Awesome Power of Recognition
By Porchlight
David Novak has written "a parable about the secret to engaging and motivating people to do great things in all walks of life."
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World
Book Review by Porchlight
In Blockchain Revolution, Don and Alex Tapcott have provided laypeople with a primer on a technology that is on the verge of transforming the world.
Categories: editors-choice, narrative-biography
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Blog / New Releases
The Purpose Effect: Building Meaning in Yourself, Your Role and Your Organization
By Porchlight
Dan Pontefract provides a blueprint to build a stable, three-legged stool for our business and business lives, balanced on three crucial areas of purpose: individual, workplace role, and organizational.
Categories: new-releases, narrative-biography
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Blog / Excerpts
Making It in America: A 12-Point Plan for Growing Your Business and Keeping Jobs at Home
By Porchlight
John D. Bassett reveals the "private thinking and our fresh leadership approach" that allowed Vaughan-Bassett Furniture to keep production in America as the rest of the industry moved it overseas, and not only survive, but thrive in that environment.
Categories: excerpts, narrative-biography
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Everydata: The Misinformation Hidden in the Little Data You Consume Every Day
By Porchlight
John Johnson and Mike Gluck have written a fascinating and highly entertaining examination of how we consume data.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Excerpts
Failed It!: How to Turn Mistakes Into Ideas and Other Advice for Successfully Screwing Up
By Porchlight
In his new book, Erik Kessels celebrates the fine art of making mistakes and moving ideas.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Book Review by Porchlight
Angela Duckworth has written a book that teaches us all how to maximize our talent and, perhaps, make the world a little happier place to live in the process.
Categories: editors-choice