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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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Amazon's Best, and the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award
By 800-CEO-READ
The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award was announced last night. Unsurprisingly, I suppose, it did not go to Steven Mandis's excellent book on Goldman Sachs—What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider's Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences released by Harvard Business Review Press last month. That would be like Amazon announcing their best book of the year was Brad Stone's The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon.
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New KB Giveaway! Adversaries into Allies by Bob Burg
By Sally Haldorson
Most business books are social science books. Sometimes they are given the "self help" label, and while business books are often about growing or evolving the self, they are more often about relationships, and how to work with other people to benefit both parties, whether it is manager-to-employee, marketer-to-client, or peer-to-peer. While social science is technically concerned with individual relationships in a society, it isn't too far of a reach to say that organizations are their own small society.
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Two Birds in a Tree: Timeless Indian Wisdom for Business Leaders
By Sally Haldorson
Author Ram Nidumolu tells us upfront that Two Birds in a Tree: Timeless Indian Wisdom for Business Leaders is "only a road map" and that "you will have to create the guidebook yourself because this is your own unique journey. " Journey toward what? Toward Being.
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ChangeThis: Issue 110
By 800-CEO-READ
Making Decisions like Tomorrow Depends on It by Tom Rath “No matter how healthy you are today, you can take specific actions to have more energy and live longer. Regardless of your age, you can make better choices in the moment. Small decisions—about how you eat, move, and sleep each day—count more than you think.
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Thinker(s) in Residence: Business & Books with Brains On Fire
By Sally Haldorson
"Why can’t we lose the term NOT FOR PROFIT? Shouldn’t the people doing the most good in the world be wildly profitable? " Q: What is the one unanswered question about business you are most interested in answering?
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Join KnowledgeBOX and get FOCUS!
By Sally Haldorson
The October 2013 shipments of our KnowledgeBOX will be leaving the warehouse in one week! Don't wait to subscribe and receive a signed copy of Daniel Goleman's new FOCUS: THE HIDDEN DRIVER OF EXCELLENCE and an Advanced Reader's Copy of THE HARD THING ABOUT HARD THINGS by Ben Horowitz. Sign up today and you'll receive 5 hardcover books and 4 advanced reader copies over the year for only $80.
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A KnowledgeBlocks Giveaway! The Passion Conversation
By Sally Haldorson
Enter to win a copy of The Passion Conversation by the folks at Brains on Fire over on KnowledgeBlocks! The contest is open until October 15th. Why do you need this book?
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The FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Shortlist
By 800-CEO-READ
The Financial Times has announced the shortlist for their annual business book award, co-sponsored with Goldman Sachs. The have narrowed the field to six: The Alchemists: Thee Central Bankers and a World On Fire by Neil Irwin, The Penguin Press Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy by Iain Martin, Simon and Schuster (not yet released in the U. S.
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ChangeThis: Issue 109
By 800-CEO-READ
Success In 5 Easy Lessons by G. Richard Shell “When everyone around you agrees on what success means, it is all too easy to blindly accept their ideas about what to do next. .
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A New KnowledgeBlocks Giveaway!
By Sally Haldorson
We are giving away 20 copies of Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success by G. Richard Shell over on KnowledgeBlocks. Just enter for your chance to win.
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