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Unreasonable Hospitality | The Lost Chapter

By Will Guidara

In Unreasonable Hospitality , Will Guidara chronicles the lessons in service and leadership he has learned over the course of his career in restaurants. There was one lesson, however—in a "lost chapter"—that didn't end up making it in the final cut of the book.

Blog / ChangeThis

Redefining "Urgent"

By Malissa Clark

Treating all of our work tasks as urgent causes undue stress and can take a toll on our personal lives, writes industrial and organizational psychology professor Malissa Clark.

Blog / New Releases

February 27, 2024

By Porchlight

Blog / Staff Picks

Never Not Working: Why the Always-On Culture Is Bad for Business—And How to Fix It

Book Review by Liam Dooley

If technology has made it easier to work more effectively, why do so many still feel overwhelmed? To uncover the answers, Malissa Clark guides readers through the landscape of modern workaholism.

Blog / Book Giveaways

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

By Porchlight

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.

Blog / Excerpts

An Excerpt from Making Differences Work

By Eli Jones, Paul Sarvadi

Chart a new way forward through commonality, equality, and cohesion in the workplace.

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The Critical Decision to Make on Innovation

By John Rossman

Innovation is not a spontaneous occurrence, but something that can be developed with the right systems in place, according to leadership strategist John Rossman.

Blog / New Releases

February 20, 2024

By Porchlight

Blog / Editor's Choice

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

Book Review by Dylan Schleicher

Yanis Varoufakis has pronounced capitalism dead. Even if you don’t believe it is worth saving, you’ll probably agree that what has replaced it is even more oppressive. But there may be a means for emancipation in the tools of our current exploitation.

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The Way Home: Discovering the Hero's Journey to Wholeness at Midlife

By Porchlight

A guidebook for those at midlife struggling to find themselves, deftly applying Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey to the modern reader’s quest for wholeness.