Most Recent Articles
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Blog / Book Giveaways
The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry
By Porchlight
John Warrillow's book will help you consider subscription models for your business and industry—whatever business or industry you're in.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Excerpts
The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity from Pirates, Hackers, Gangsters, and Other Informal Entrepreneurs
By Blyth Meier
Alexa Clay & Kyra Maya Phillips look for innovation in the worlds of black, grey, and informal economies.
Categories: excerpts, narrative-biography
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance
By Porchlight
Red Hat's CEO Jim Whitehurst shares a manifesto for reorganizing your company.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / Staff Picks
What is your favorite summer reading?
Book Review by Blyth Meier
Our staff picks summer reading—what they recommend, what they are looking forward to, and what they just cleared their decks to pay attention to.
Categories: staff-picks, the-company
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Risk/Reward: Why Intelligent Leaps and Daring Choices Are the Best Career Moves You Can Make
By Porchlight
Anne Kraemer tells us that job security is a thing of the past, and that we must all now approach our careers with an entrepreneurial mindset.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / New Releases
The Disciplined Leader: Keeping the Focus on What Really Matters
By Dylan Schleicher
John Manning, President of Management Action Programs, helps leaders pinpoint the 20 percent of activities that will drive 80 percent of the results.
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Great Disruption: How Business Is Coping with Turbulent Times
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Adrian Woolridge's Shumpeter column for The Economist has been mined for the best material and published as a book.
Categories: staff-picks, narrative-biography
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Blog / New Releases
The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity from Pirates, Hackers, Gangsters and Other Informal Entrepreneurs
By Dylan Schleicher
Alexa Clay and Kyra Maya Phillips' new book is already being touted by some as one of the best of the year.
Categories: new-releases, narrative-biography
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy: How to Choose and Execute the Right Approach
By Dylan Schleicher
Martin Reeves, Knut Haanaes, and Janmejaya Sinha of Boston Consulting Group provide a lesson on why our strategies need a strategy, and a guidebook to do it.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / News & Opinion
Authors On the Road - Ubuntu Education Fund & Kiva
By Aaron Schleicher
The philanthropists featured were "on the road" long before they were authors, and are changing the world as they make their way through it.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography
