Most Recent Articles
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time
By Dylan Schleicher
Jeffrey Pfeffer's new book is not filled with a whole lot of inspiration, and tells us why those that are can be dangerous.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / Staff Picks
Grit to Great : How Perseverance, Passion, and Pluck Take You from Ordinary to Extraordinary
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
How do we learn to have grit if excellence is held higher as a virtue than persistence?
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / Staff Picks
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America
Book Review by Porchlight
Linda Tirado's first-hand experience as a serial minimum-wager stands in contrast to the elusive American Dream.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Grit to Great : How Perseverance, Passion, and Pluck Take You from Ordinary to Extraordinary
By Porchlight
Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval remind us that, while big dreams and big ideas are great, we have to get a little gritty to accomplish them.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Why We Work
By Dylan Schleicher
Barry Schwartz discusses what motivates us to work, and how to redesign our workplaces—and human nature along with it—armed with that knowledge.
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Blog / News & Opinion
We're moving!
By Blyth Meier
800-CEO-READ is moving from one great Milwaukee neighborhood to another.
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Blog / New Releases
The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers
By Dylan Schleicher
Gillian Tett shows how our tendency to create silos hinders our work, and how some people and organizations can break those silos down.
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Blog
August 2015 Business Book Bestsellers
By Blyth Meier
Our business book bestsellers for the month of August, 2015
Categories: the-company
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Blog / Excerpts
Remix Strategy: The Three Laws of Business Combinations
By Dylan Schleicher
In which Benjamin Gomes-Casseres teaches us how a common method used deejays and artists can be applied to business.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Book Giveaways
The Culling: A Business Book Grab Bag Giveaway
By Porchlight
We're cleaning house and culling books, and would like to give you some of our favorite doubles.
Categories: giveaways
