Blog / Excerpts

Move Fast and Fix Things | An Excerpt from the Leadership & Strategy Category

By Frances Frei, Anne Morriss

Bestselling authors and cohosts of the TED podcast Fixable , Frances Frei and Anne Morriss reinvent the playbook for how to lead change—with a radical approach that moves fast, builds trust, and accelerates excellence.

Blog / Excerpts

How Big Things Get Done | An Excerpt from the Leadership & Strategy Category

By Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner

The secrets to successfully planning and delivering ambitious, complex projects on any scale—from home renovation to space exploration—by the world's leading expert on megaprojects.

Blog / Excerpts

An Excerpt from Evolutionary Intelligence

By W Russell Neuman

A media technology scholar argues in favor of exploring the expanding boundaries of computationally augmented human intelligence.

Blog / ChangeThis

The Power of Authenticity: A Latina Executive Shares Her Story

By Tricia Montalvo Timm

Corporate lawyer Tricia Montalvo Timm shares how she stopped downplaying her identity as a first-generation Latina woman and mother and embraced her full self at work.

Blog / New Releases

December 5, 2023

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Blog / Book Giveaways

Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot

By Porchlight

Develop the life-changing ability to excel in spontaneous communication situations—from public speaking to interviewing to networking—with these essential strategies from a Stanford lecturer, coach, and host of the popular Think Fast, Talk Smart The Podcast.

Blog / Interviews

Ben Katt in Conversation with Sally Haldorson

By Ben Katt, Sally Haldorson

"I think at its core, [my book is] not wanting to treat wellness or wellbeing as this sort of surface level, 'just got to clean up my act, look better...' you know, because it can be dangerous that way." Watch our full interview with Ben Katt, author of The Way Home: Discovering the Hero's Journey to Wholeness at Midlife.

Blog / Interviews

Ralph Nader in Conversation with Sally Haldorson

By Ralph Nader, Sally Haldorson

In this previously live-streamed interview, Ralph Nader answers discusses his book The Rebellious CEO: 12 Leaders Who Did It Right.

Blog / News & Opinion

The 2023 Porchlight Business Book Awards

By Porchlight

These 40 books spoke to us—and we believe speak to each other—in a way that furthers the conversations we need to have in the organizations we work in, the communities we live in, and the societies that shape us. With them as a guide, we can make decisions that better shape each, in turn.

Blog / Excerpts

An Excerpt from Work Different

By Kate Bravery, Ilya Bonic, Kai Anderson

A team of business experts and workforce advisors provide insight into the people management issues leaders face in the modern global economy.