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And the Winners Are...
By Porchlight
The 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards category winners (and shortlist for the best book of the year) 2014.
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The 5-8-40 Business Gift Book Club
By Porchlight
Impress your boss or empower your employees with books to help them grow... or just treat that special business someone in your life.
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The 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Longlist
By Porchlight
The culling process we undertake during the awards process is always rigorous, but we've narrowed it down to 40 books—5 each in 8 categories.
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2014 FT/McKinsey Book of the Year Announced
By Porchlight
The business and economic world's most visible book award was announced today.
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strategy+business's Best Books of 2014
By Porchlight
The s+b yearly list is always decidedly and refreshingly different than most others.
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Authors on the Road - The New Generation of Philanthropy
By Porchlight
When discussing philanthropy it’s impossible not to include a certain Mr. Buffett, but it's not only Papa Warren doing work to make the world a better place.
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Martha Stewart and a Midwestern Blacksmith
By Porchlight
There are scores of makers in Milwaukee (and in your city) doing fantastic work you can't find at the Box and Everything stores.
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Friday Links
By Porchlight
The vast majority of articles about startups and innovation focus on Silicon Valley. Today we look at two innovators far removed from the typical incubators.
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The FT Press/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Shortlist
By Porchlight
A shortlist for the 2014 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award was announced yesterday. The books chosen focus very much on the big-picture issues of the day, "the most important trends shaping our world" as the press release puts it, so the switch from Goldman Sachs to McKinsey as a partner to FT has not reduced the scope of the books as I thought it may. (I speculated back in May when the announcement was made that McKinsey would now be backing the award that it may change focus to the more nuts-and-bolts business management issues that McKinsey ostensibly focuses on in its own work.
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ChangeThis: Issue 121
By Porchlight
Work As We Know It Is Dead by Jacob Morgan “The idea that ‘work sucks’ is engrained in almost every aspect of our professional lives. Employees aren't cogs, work should not be drudgery, and managers can no longer be slave-drivers. This isn’t a manifesto about following your passions or being happy, it’s a call to action to change and evolve our organizations to reflect the world they operate in.
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