Blog / Book Giveaways

Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact

By Porchlight

Why do some people break through and make an impact while others get stuck going through the motions?

Blog / Editor's Choice

Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men

Book Review by Dylan Schleicher

Katrine Marçal's new book shows us how gender bias has determined what technologies we have built, and even what we consider to be technology, undermining our ability to reach our full potential as human beings. It continues to be the case today, and it has never been as important as it is now to upend our ideas around gender to build a more balanced and sustainable world.

Blog / Staff Picks

The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less

Book Review by Dylan Schleicher

Sahil Lavingia reminds us that there is more than one way to found a startup, and that the way it's done in Silicon Valley may not be the best or most sustainable way for most entrepreneurs—or for the world.

Blog / Staff Picks

The Electricity of Every Living Thing: A Woman's Walk in the Wild to Find Her Way Home

Book Review by Emily Porter

This book is easy to devour and an incredibly raw and heartfelt story of one woman's wondrous venture of self-discovery.

Blog / ChangeThis

Becoming Change-Capable

By Erika Andersen

In order to survive and thrive today and tomorrow and next year, we need to rewire ourselves and our organizations.

Blog / New Releases

Books to Watch | October 19, 2021

By Dylan Schleicher, Gabbi Cisneros, Emily Porter

Blog / Staff Picks

Outlandish: Walking Europe’s Unlikely Landscapes

Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros

Nick Hunt’s slow-paced walking travels allow him to take his time unpacking the many layers of history that surround him on his journeys, transitioning smoothly from his viewpoint in-the-moment to a much wider perspective temporally.

Blog / Book Giveaways

Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day

By Porchlight

An acclaimed neuroscientist takes us on an eye-opening tour of the attention system—our hidden superpower that enables us to function at maximum mental capacity to achieve more, maintain healthier relationships, and be present and engaged, no matter how anxious or stressed our lives.

Blog / Staff Picks

The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

Book Review by Emily Porter

Throughout this uplifting text, Jane Goodall takes us on her life’s journey. We see her living through wars, grieving a departed partner, and even meet a young Jane who was unsure of herself. Yet, hope was always around the corner—as it is today.

Blog / ChangeThis

The Places We’ll Live, and What They’ll Look Like

By Parag Khanna

Smart cities won’t truly be smart until we get smarter. … Inclusive systems—whether cities or nations—empower everyone such that the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts.