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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Why Should Anyone Work Here: What It Takes to Create an Authentic Organization
By Porchlight
Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones talk about how the "old paradigm has flipped" with regards to organizations and employment, and authenticity is an organizational advantage all should tap into.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / New Releases
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
By Porchlight
Bestselling author Matt Ridley explains why "bottom-up progress through evolution is far more crucial" than top-down efforts to push ideas and innovation.
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / News & Opinion
The 2015 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Longlist
By Porchlight
These 40 books—five selections across eight distinct categories—make up the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Longlist.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / Blog
October 2015 Business Book Bestsellers
By Porchlight
Our business book bestsellers for the month of October, 2015
Categories: the-company
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Blog / Book Giveaways
One Second Ahead: Enhance Your Performance at Work with Mindfulness
By Porchlight
Rasmus Hougaard teached us to speed up by slowing down, to be more effective by being more mindful.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works
By Porchlight
Roger L. Martin & Sally R. Osberg define and document the growing field of social entrepreneurship.
Categories: jack-covert-selects, narrative-biography
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Blog / Excerpts
The Smarter Screen: Surprising Ways to Influence and Improve Online Behavior
By Porchlight
Behavioral economist Shlomo Benartzi tackles how we interact with the proliferation of the internet and screens in our everyday lives, and how they can be designed in a way that encourages us to make better decisions on them.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Above the Line: Lessons in Leadership and Life from a Championship Season
By Porchlight
Urban Meyer is an exceptional football coach, with an exceptional system for success that he lays out in his new book on leadership.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
By Dylan Schleicher
Roger Lowenstein has written a brilliant book on the founding of the Federal Reserve that informs and echoes the issues and arguments of today.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / Excerpts
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
By Porchlight
Hard-hitting combat stories that translate into lessons for business and life from two former Navy SEALs.
Categories: excerpts