News & Opinion
Keep up with the latest industry news and trends, our annual business book awards, and other pieces of news and opinion floating around the offices and minds of Porchlight Book Company.
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The 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Longlist
By 800-CEO-READ
The culling process we undertake during the awards process is always rigorous, but we've narrowed it down to 40 books—5 each in 8 categories.
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2014 FT/McKinsey Book of the Year Announced
By Ryan Schleicher
The business and economic world's most visible book award was announced today.
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strategy+business's Best Books of 2014
By Ryan Schleicher
The s+b yearly list is always decidedly and refreshingly different than most others.
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Authors on the Road - The New Generation of Philanthropy
By Aaron Schleicher
When discussing philanthropy it’s impossible not to include a certain Mr. Buffett, but it's not only Papa Warren doing work to make the world a better place.
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Martha Stewart and a Midwestern Blacksmith
By 800-CEO-READ
There are scores of makers in Milwaukee (and in your city) doing fantastic work you can't find at the Box and Everything stores.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography, the-company
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Friday Links
By 800-CEO-READ
The vast majority of articles about startups and innovation focus on Silicon Valley. Today we look at two innovators far removed from the typical incubators.
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The FT Press/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Shortlist
By 800-CEO-READ
A shortlist for the 2014 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award was announced yesterday. The books chosen focus very much on the big-picture issues of the day, "the most important trends shaping our world" as the press release puts it, so the switch from Goldman Sachs to McKinsey as a partner to FT has not reduced the scope of the books as I thought it may. (I speculated back in May when the announcement was made that McKinsey would now be backing the award that it may change focus to the more nuts-and-bolts business management issues that McKinsey ostensibly focuses on in its own work.
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ChangeThis: Issue 121
By 800-CEO-READ
Work As We Know It Is Dead by Jacob Morgan “The idea that ‘work sucks’ is engrained in almost every aspect of our professional lives. Employees aren't cogs, work should not be drudgery, and managers can no longer be slave-drivers. This isn’t a manifesto about following your passions or being happy, it’s a call to action to change and evolve our organizations to reflect the world they operate in.
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ChangeThis: Issue 120
By 800-CEO-READ
Creating a Coaching Culture: A Playbook to Build Winning Business Teams by Nathan Jamail “In business, most of our employees are not as good as they could be—not because of our love for them or our desire to make their lives better than ours, but . . .
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Authors On the Road, Changing the World - John Hope Bryant
By Aaron Schleicher
In the rapidly changing world of technology and the way we utilize that technology, we often forget many of our institutions were built over the phone, forming relationships with the people with whom we wanted to do business. In a group meeting here this week, our retired founder and president Jack Covert made the argument that if we want to maintain our current relationships better than our competitors and add something to their lives that others don't, we need to pick up the phone and have a real conversation with these people we value. We are fortunate that our business is still very much a people-orientated service company that really enjoys those breaks in the email or social media chain, and we’re lucky to have formed relationships with authors and institutions who uphold that same type of “old school” ethos.
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