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 2016 800-CEO-READ Business Books Awards and Industry Party
By Dylan Schleicher
We were in New York City last week to host our friends and colleagues in the publishing industry.
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The 2016 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year
By Sally Haldorson
800-CEO-READ has selected What Works: Gender Equality by Design by Iris Bohnet (Belknap Press) as the 2016 Business Book of the Year.
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The 2016 Jack Covert Award for Contribution to the Business Book Industry: Hollis Heimbouch
By Sally Haldorson
Each year, 800-CEO-READ recognizes one of the most significant contributors to the development and current state of the business book industry.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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800-CEO-READ's 2016 Bestsellers
By Dylan Schleicher
These are the books that 800-CEO-READ moved the most of, and moved often, in 2016.
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Inside the Longlist: Big Ideas & New Perspectives
By Ryan Schleicher
Big ideas and new perspectives someday become, once enacted, status quo. It will take a while, but the first step is often powerful voices writing powerful books.
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Inside the Longlist: Narrative & Biography
By Dylan Schleicher
The most influential and transformative lessons are those we discover on our own, in real world, real life stories and examples rather than in lists of steps or habits.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography, publishing-industry, the-company
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Inside the Longlist: Current Events & Public Affairs
By Dylan Schleicher
The reality underlying each of our choices for the best Current Events & Public Affairs book of the year is that good business practices can be a balm to society, while bad business practices act as a barrier to progress.
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The 2016 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Shortlist
By Dylan Schleicher
These eight books, the top in their category, make up the shortlist for the 2016 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award.
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Inside the Longlist: Personal Development & Human Behavior
By Aaron Schleicher
The five finalists in the Personal Development & Human Behavior category help us make sense of ourselves and the world around us, to dig deeper and get to work.
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Inside the Longlist: Innovation & Creativity
By Porchlight
The five finalists in the Innovation & Creativity category span styles and subject matter, but all do one thing well: make learning interesting.
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