Editor's Choice
Looking for a new book to dive into? Our in-depth reviews cover some of the best new books being released into the world and use those books to gain a better understanding of the world, helping guide where to go—and what to read—next.
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Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation
Book Review by Porchlight
Edward Humes takes us on a fascinating journey through the intricacies and implications of our modern transportation network.
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Performance Breakthrough: A Radical Approach to Success at Work
Book Review by Porchlight
Cathy Salit provides us with tools to keep growing, and teaches us how to take on new roles and mindsets as individuals and organizations.
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The Gray Rhino: How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore
Book Review by Porchlight
Michele Wucker's new book helps us avoid crisis by engaging more thoroughly with reality, recognizing obvious threats and our own biases, and working to overcome them.
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Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
Book Review by Porchlight
Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, and Braden Kowitz detail a process "for answering crucial questions through prototyping and testing ideas with customers" in just one workweek.
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An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
Book Review by Porchlight
Developmental psychologists Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey show us how to build development organizations that bring our workers out of hiding.
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Under New Management: How Leading Organizations Are Upending Business as Usual
Book Review by Porchlight
David Burkus provides us with a great list of seemingly heretical ideas to make out businesses more efficient.
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Be Bad First: Get Good at Things Fast to Stay Ready for the Future
Book Review by Porchlight
Erika Andersen teaches us how to become better learners to confront an age where information is expanding exponentially.
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Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
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Douglas Rushkoff, in his usual expansive and incredibly erudite manner, dissects the digital economy and points a more considered way forward.
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Small Data: The Tiny Clues That Uncover Huge Trends
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In his new book, Martin Lindstrom gets off the internet and our into the wider world to bring us insights that big data can't provide.
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Illuminate: Ignite Change Through Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies, and Symbols
Book Review by Porchlight
Nancy Duarte & Patti Sanchez have written a beautiful—in so many ways—book on change, and what it takes to bring it into your organization and the world.
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