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Blog / Interviews
Cal Newport on Work Culture and Books
By Dylan Schleicher
In the second part of our interview with Cal Newport, we ask him what his biggest question about work culture is, and what books have influenced him.
Categories: interviews
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Blog / Interviews
A Q&A with Cal Newport
By Dylan Schleicher
Cal Newport has a penchant for challenging accepted wisdom and exposing a deeper truth in our work lives. His new book explains why the technology taking over our work is undermining our ability to do it to our greatest ability.
Categories: interviews
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Blog / News & Opinion
Scenes from the 2015 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards and Industry Party
By Dylan Schleicher
A great time was had by all, and we announced our two biggest annual awards.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / Book Giveaways
The Sustainable Edge: 15 Minutes a Week to a Richer Entrepreneurial Life
By Porchlight
Ron Carson and Scott Ford deliver a series of questions, and an easy process, for getting the most out of our life and work.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / News & Opinion
The 2015 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year
By Dylan Schleicher
After a long and deliberative process, a lot of reading and a lot of discussion, Kevin Ashton's How to Fly a Horse emerges as our winner.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
The 2015 Jack Covert Award for Contribution to the Business Book Industry
By Dylan Schleicher
This year's winner is the Founder, President, and Publisher of Portfolio, Adrian Zackheim.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind
By Sally Haldorson
Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire's new book coincided serendipitously with the death of David Bowie.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
By Porchlight
Cal Newport teaches us why the ability to do "deep work" is more important than ever in a digital age, and how to get there.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Cal Newport details the advantages of deeper focus and concentration, of "deep work," and how to cultivate it.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / New Releases
The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
By Blyth Meier
Eric Weiner's new book is an informed romp through history that will start a national conversation about the importance of culture in nurturing creativity.
Categories: new-releases
