Interviews
One of the best things about working at Porchlight is the opportunity to form relationships with the authors who write the books we sell. One of the great things about forming those relationships is that it allows us, when time permits, to ask the authors about their work.
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Thinker in Residence: A Q&A with Richard Sheridan
By Sally Haldorson
I also came to an important realization: I wasn’t running towards risk by making these changes, I was running away from risk. What was at risk was me. I was around 40 years old at the time I started down this path.
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Thinker in Residence: Richard Sheridan
By Sally Haldorson
Richard Sheridan, author of Joy, Inc. is the CEO, Chief Storyteller and co-founder of Menlo Innovations. Here's his story: Rich knew at 13 years old what he was going to do the rest of his career when he typed in a two-line program into a Teletype and the computer came back and typed back “HI RICH”.
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Thinker in Residence: Debbie Millman on Business & Books
By Sally Haldorson
Great thinkers are often influenced by other great thinkers, twisting their knowledge about to make new and thoughtful iterations. Here are Debbie Millman's influences. Q.
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Thinker in Residence: A Q&A with Debbie Millman
By Sally Haldorson
Creativity requires a personal belief that you have something meaningful to say or to contribute. If this belief gets squashed or hindered, it can fundamentally damage the brain’s neurological pathways responsible for creative connections and communication. ~Debbie Millman Q.
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Thinker in Residence: Debbie Millman
By Sally Haldorson
Debbie Millman is President of the design division at Sterling Brands. She has been there for 18 years and in that time she has worked on the redesign of over 200 global brands, including projects with P&G, Colgate, Nestle, Kraft and Pepsi. She is President Emeritus of AIGA, the largest professional association for design in the world.
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Thinker(s) in Residence: Q&A with John Moore, Geno Church, and Robbin Phillips
By Sally Haldorson
Create a culture that knows how and who is going to respond and give your team permission to be human. Those are the companies who are shining in this new connected world.
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Thinker(s) in Residence: Brains on Fire
By Sally Haldorson
ROBBIN PHILLIPS, GREG CORDELL, GENO CHURCH, and JOHN MOORE work together at the word of mouth marketing and identity company Brains on Fire. Along with others in the Brains on Fire tribe, they partner with some of the most fearless businesses and organizations on the planet to ignite movements through the contagious power of passionate people. Robbin is the courageous President of Brains on Fire and truly believes love is a circular transaction.
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Thinker in Residence: G. Richard Shell on Business and Books
By Sally Haldorson
In our final Thinker in Residence installment with G. Richard Shell, author of Springboard, we asked Dr. Shell to share with us the business question that most inspires his work and what books have most influenced him.
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Thinker in Residence: A Q&A with G. Richard Shell
By Sally Haldorson
Happiness is fascinating. It is both one of the simplest things in life and one of the most complicated things to write about. ~G.
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Thinker in Residence: G. Richard Shell
By Sally Haldorson
G. Richard Shell is the Thomas Gerrity Professor of Legal Studies, Business Ethics, and Management and the Chair of the Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1986. He also led the School’s most recent innovation process to completely redesign its MBA program.
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