Blog / Staff Picks

The Elsewheres (in the Heart) of America

Book Review by Bryan Rogers

What happens when residents reclaim their rightful place in local government? What happens when towns devastated by citywide poverty transform themselves into models of restoration and resiliency?

Blog / Editor's Choice

The Carbon Almanac: It's Not Too Late

Book Review by Dylan Schleicher

Seth Godin has written many great books and launched many great projects. The Carbon Almanac is both of those things.

Blog / ChangeThis

Pinpointing the Pain to Lead Lightly

By Jody Michael

Pain hinders performance. So, if you want to play at the top of your game, if you want to be an outstanding leader, if you want to create even higher levels of success in your organization, then you have to do two things: One, stop the cycle of pain. Two, shift into a cycle of performance.

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Books to Watch | July 26, 2022

By Porchlight

Blog / Book Giveaways

Race and Reckoning: From Founding Fathers to Today's Disruptors

By Porchlight

Spanning from the nation’s earliest years through the New Deal to the Covid pandemic, a groundbreaking work that interrogates how pivotal decisions have established and continued discriminatory practices in the United States, even as the rise of disinformation and other modern advertising techniques have plunged democracy into an ever-deepening crisis.

Blog / Editor's Choice

The Upside of Uncertainty: A Guide to Finding Possibility in the Unknown

Book Review by Dylan Schleicher

The level of uncertainty we are all living through can feel debilitating. Nathan Furr and Suzanna Harmon Furr help us navigate it all by helping us understand that there are opportunities inherent in it, and giving us tools and strategies for opening ourselves up to and creating them.

Blog / ChangeThis

The Emotional, Financial and Health Toll of Being the First and Only

By Jennifer R Farmer

Our community tends to celebrate when one of our own breaks through. But there is an underbelly associated with being the first. Have we even counted the costs? They include academic, emotional, health and physical costs.

Blog / New Releases

Books to Watch | July 19, 2022

By Porchlight

Blog / Book Giveaways

Radically Human: How New Technology Is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future

By Porchlight

Technology advances are making tech more . . . human. This changes everything you thought you knew about innovation and strategy.

Blog / Staff Picks

Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers

Book Review by Jasmine Gonzalez

Milked focuses on how farmers and immigrants have been pitted against one another, but in many ways, it is a broader metaphor for how all Americans are pitted against each other. Yet it is not about the doom and gloom of it all—it is about hope.