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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Blog / News & Opinion
The Man Who Knew Wins the 2016 FT Business Book Award
By Dylan Schleicher
Sebastian Mallaby's biography of Alan Greenspan is a master of the form, and is well-deserving of the award.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography, publishing-industry
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Inside the Longlist: Marketing & Sales
By Blyth Meier
The five finalists in the Marketing & Sales category highlight a clear trend emphasizing the role of emotion in the decision-making process.
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Inside the Longlist: Management & Workplace Culture
By Sally Haldorson
These Management and Workplace Culture books range from advice on radical change to strategic solutions and provide practical examples and innovative approaches for managing your people, how your people manage and represent your product, and how you and your people manage to be happy at and in their work.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry, the-company
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Inside the Longlist: Leadership & Strategy
By Sally Haldorson
The following five Leadership & Strategy books will help guide you, your company, and your people through growth, through evolution, through reinvention. Each of these books will act as a lantern to make the forest a little less dark, and the way forward a little more clear.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry, the-company
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The 2016 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Longlist
By Ryan Schleicher
If you're going to read 40 business books published in 2016, make them this 40—or, I suppose, choose from among them.
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Last call! Submissions for the 2016 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards close September 29
By Blyth Meier
Publishers and authors have ten days left to enter their book for our annual Business Book Awards.
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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The Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award Shortlist
By 800-CEO-READ
The shortlist for the 2016 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award has been announced.
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Submissions for the 2016 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards are now open!
By Sally Haldorson
Any business book published in the U.S. within the year 2016 is eligible and submissions to the awards are free.
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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The 2016 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Longlist
By Blyth Meier
Financial Times and McKinsey's 2016 Business Book of the Year longlist shines a light on globalization.
Categories: news-opinion
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A Monstrous (and Most Welcome) Regiment of Women: Changing the Conversation
By Sally Haldorson
Our General Manager Sally Haldorson's name has been added to the cover of the third edition of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time, and she has pulled more women into the conversation along with her.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography, publishing-industry, the-company