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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch | June 29, 2021
By Dylan Schleicher, Gabbi Cisneros, Emily Porter
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Fair Pay: How to Get a Raise, Close the Wage Gap, and Build Stronger Businesses
By Porchlight
An expert takes on the crisis of income inequality, addressing the problems with our current compensation model, demystifying pay practices, and providing practical information employees can use when negotiating their salaries and discussing how we can close the gender and racial pay gap.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Staff Picks
Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice
Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros
If Vanessa Zoltan can make such thoughtful, universal, contemporary, and personal connections with a nineteenth-century gothic Romance novel, I think that there are endless possibilities for what we can learn from the abundance of diverse authors and stories that exist today.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / Staff Picks
Objects of Desire: Stories
Book Review by Emily Porter
Clare Sestanovich gives us a peek into the desires of modern life, lives that are figuring out the everyday, and writes lovely short stories that give us snippets of all these lives that tie together.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / Staff Picks
Fair Pay: How to Get a Raise, Close the Wage Gap, and Build Stronger Businesses
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
David Buckmaster takes on issues as personal as how to advocate for better pay for yourself, and as broad as how to change the system to rid it of its persistent racial and gender disparities and finally provide equal pay for equal work.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Era of Workplace Fun (And How to Extend It to Virtual Workers)
By Bob Nelson, Mario Tamayo
Employees at the best companies are having the most fun. In other words, high performers are having the most fun. And people who are having fun tend to be high performers. It’s two sides of the same coin.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Sea We Swim In: How Stories Work in a Data-Driven World
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
We must be deliberate about choosing what stories we tell, and what stories we believe, because they are the waters we swim in—the way we construct our own realities.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / Staff Picks
Thanks for Waiting: The Joy (& Weirdness) of Being a Late Bloomer
Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros
Doree Shafrir’s compassion for herself as a late bloomer will inspire readers to treat themselves with as much self-respect and patience, too,
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch | June 22, 2021
By Dylan Schleicher, Gabbi Cisneros, Emily Porter
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Collision Course: Carlos Ghosn and the Culture Wars That Upended an Auto Empire
By Porchlight
In Japan it's called the "Ghosn Shock"—the stunning arrest of Carlos Ghosn, the jet-setting CEO who saved Nissan and made it part of a global automotive empire.
Categories: giveaways