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Blog / Blog
800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for June 2018
By 800-CEO-READ
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for June 2018.
Categories: the-company
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Blog / Book Giveaways
A Hand-Picked Summer Giveaway
By Porchlight
This week's winners will receive two books handpicked by our editorial director.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Reinforcements: How to Get People to Help You
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Heidi Grant's new book will show you how to be better able to ask for the help you need, and improve the lives of others—perhaps the world—in the process.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / Excerpts
Never Stop Learning: Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive
By Blyth Meier
In his new book, Bradley R. Staats explains how one of the keys to life-long learning is simply being true to yourself.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America
By Porchlight
Alissa Quart's new book explores how high child care costs, changing economic realities, and harsh workplace policies are squeezing an already benighted middle class.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else)
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Ken Auletta has written an in-depth account of the advertising industry, those who lead it today, and those trying to disrupt it.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
By Porchlight
Jaron Lanier uncovers the ways in which our behavior is being modified by social media, and makes ten arguments for quitting it.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Excerpts
#NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line
By Blyth Meier
Survivors of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School share The Parkland Manifesto for reducing deaths from gun violence.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Sarah Kessler writes of the rise and fall of the gig economy, with a nod toward what the future of work might look like and the choices we'll need to make and hard work we'll need to put in to build it.
Categories: editors-choice, narrative-biography
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Blog / ChangeThis
Inclusive Prosperity through Shared Experiences
By Deepa Prahalad
"Forget Calls to Action and apology tours. There has never been a better time for companies who are serious about 'making the world a better place' to do so. Changing global demographics and megatrends have lowered the cost of learning. Millennial attitudes have made engagement on social issues more urgent and less risky. Companies today can help to reduce inequality and strengthen society through the creation of shared experiences. They can also gain new managerial capabilities in the process. The recent experience of emerging markets offers some critical insights."
Categories: changethis
