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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The Storyteller's Secret: From TED Speakers to Business Legends, Why Some Ideas Catch On and Others Don't
By Porchlight
Internationally bestselling author Carmine Gallo reveals the secrets to telling powerful, inspiring, and game-changing stories.
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Persuadable: How Great Leaders Change Their Minds to Change the World
By Porchlight
Al Pittampalli's new book argues that a genuine willingness for leaders to change their own minds it the ultimate competitive advantage.
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The Smarter Screen: Surprising Ways to Influence and Improve Online Behavior
By Porchlight
Behavioral economist Shlomo Benartzi tackles how we interact with the proliferation of the internet and screens in our everyday lives, and how they can be designed in a way that encourages us to make better decisions on them.
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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
By Porchlight
Hard-hitting combat stories that translate into lessons for business and life from two former Navy SEALs.
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It's Your Move: My Million Dollar Method for Taking Risks with Confidence and Succeeding at Work and Life
By Porchlight
Josh Altman tells us why "It's not finished until it's finished."
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Think Big, Act Bigger: The Rewards of Being Relentless
By Porchlight
Jeffrey Hayzlett tells you to think big and act bigger, because you can.
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Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures Through the Science of Total Motivation
By Porchlight
Neel Doshi and Lindsay Mcgregor explain how "How Whole Foods Can Weather The Current Storm" by doing more of the same.
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Simple Sabotage: A Modern Field Manual for Detecting and Rooting Out Everyday Behaviors That Undermine Your Workplace
By Porchlight
Robert M Galford, Bob Frisch, and Cary Greene take a look at a declassified intelligence manual for insights on how individuals inside your organization may be destroying it from within.
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Remix Strategy: The Three Laws of Business Combinations
By Porchlight
In which Benjamin Gomes-Casseres teaches us how a common method used deejays and artists can be applied to business.
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Boss Life: Surviving My Own Small Business
By Porchlight
Paul Downs takes readers through a year in the life of running his small business, exposing all the ups and downs of being a boss.
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