Book Excerpts
Especially when buying books in bulk, it can help to read the first few pages—or chapters—before making a final decision. We share excerpts from upcoming and newly released business books and other nonfiction genres to help guide your next purchasing decision.
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Shortcut Your Startup: Speed Up Success with Unconventional Advice from the Trenches
By Porchlight
In this excerpt, brothers Courtney and Carter Reum discuss five critical factors are fueling the rapid scaling of consumer brands in today’s market
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Cowgirl Power: How to Kick Ass in Business and Life
By Porchlight
In this excerpt, Gay Gaddis—CEO and Founder of T3—explains how to make your own rules and take on the mantle of leadership.
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The Influence Effect: A New Path to Power for Women Leaders
By Porchlight
The four partners at Flynn Heath Holt Leadership propose a different approach to maneuvering through office politics.
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Fearless Growth: The New Rules to Stay Competitive, Foster Innovation, and Dominate Your Markets
By Porchlight
Amanda Setili explains how embracing uncertainty can help your business achieve fearless growth.
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Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul
By Porchlight
Founder Shawn Askinosie, along with CMO Lawren Askinosie, tells us the secret of Askinosie Chocolate’s success—in addition, of course, to its honestly sourced cocoa.
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Unbranding: 100 Branding Lessons for the Age of Disruption
By Porchlight
Scott and Alison Stratten keep us focused on the human fundamentals of business, on what really matters, even if how we communicate them may change in the digital era.
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Things Are What You Make of Them: Life Advice for Creatives
By Porchlight
Adam J. Kurtz offers insights and inspiration for anyone who makes art (or anything else).
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Entrepreneurial You: Monetize Your Expertise, Create Multiple Income Streams, and Thrive
By Porchlight
Dorie Clark has penned a hands-on guide to building a portfolio of revenue streams, both traditional and online, so that you can liberate yourself financially and shape your own career destiny.
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Creating Great Choices: A Leader's Guide to Integrative Thinking
By Porchlight
Jennifer Riel and Roger Martin write about the importance of creating room for understanding, and the empathy that grows from it—one of three core principles at the heart of a better decision-making process.
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Streampunks: Youtube and the Rebels Remaking Media
By Porchlight
YouTube’s chief business officer, Robert Kyncl, and Google speechwriter Maany Peyvan have teamed up to take you on a revelatory ride through the new media rebellion that is reshaping our world.
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