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Blog / Excerpts
Burn: Using Fire to Cool the Earth
By Dylan Schleicher
In this excerpt, Albert Bates and Kathleen Draper explain the benefits of biochar in Animal Nutraceuticals, and in building soil that increases yields without the deployment of chemical fertilizer.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World's Riskiest Business
By Porchlight
The Lee Brothers, Matt and Ted, took a break from writing cookbooks to work undercover at a catering firm and learn the fascinating business that they liken to a "traveling circus of perishables."
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall expose nine lies about work that obfuscate the reality of what's going on there, and provide a new way of seeing our businesses and each other.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / New Releases
Business Books to Watch in April 2019
By 800-CEO-READ
In order of their release date, these are 20 books to choose from to kick off your Spring reading.
Categories: new-releases, narrative-biography, publishing-industry
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Blog / Excerpts
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
By Dylan Schleicher
Jennifer L. Eberhardt reminds us that "racial bias is a human problem—one all people can play a role in solving," even and especially those who design business and social media platforms.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Blog
800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for March 2019
By 800-CEO-READ
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for March 2019 features Jean Chatzky's WOMEN WITH MONEY in the top slot.
Categories: the-company
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Fail More: Embrace, Learn, and Adapt to Failure as a Way to Success
By Porchlight
Bill Wooditch shows the surprising lessons we can all learn from his own path of hard failures that ultimately led him to found and lead as CEO a company with annual sales of $100 million.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Amy Webb's book is a look at where AI comes from and where it is going, laying out three scenarios—from "optimistic to pragmatic to catastrophic"—of where it could lead us in the next 50 years.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / Excerpts
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
By 800-CEO-READ
Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research.
Categories: excerpts, narrative-biography
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Unstoppable Teams: The Four Essential Actions of High-Performance Leadership
By Porchlight
Navy SEAL platoon commander and founder of Perfect Fitness Alden Mills reveals what every manager needs—the mostly "soft skills" that usually come so hard earned—to motivate those they lead.
Categories: giveaways