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09/16/2026

Impact investing now manages $1.5 trillion. So why do so many mission-driven companies still lose their way after a sale or a founder exit? In this new interview, Laurie Lane-Zucker breaks down why good intentions aren't enough and what actually protects a company's purpose long term. It's a good preview of the thinking behind his new book, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough.

Read the full interview here:
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The impact investing movement has passed $1.5 trillion under management. Danone became the largest company ever to earn B Corp certification. And this summer,

09/15/2026

Management icon Henry Mintzberg dismantles twenty dangerous business myths in this essential guide for thoughtful leaders.

Henry Mintzberg, legendary management thinker and recipient of the Thinkers50 Lifetime Achievement Award, has spent decades challenging conventional wisdom about how organizations work. In this powerful distillation of his life's work, Mintzberg tackles the most persistent and damaging myths in business—from “if you can't measure it, you can't manage it” to the blind worship of “strategic planning.”

With characteristic wit and clarity, Mintzberg offers refreshing alternatives that will transform how you think about leadership, structure, and organizational effectiveness. He replaces tired maxims like “managing is controlling” with more nuanced approaches that embrace “controlled disorder” and suggests that “ordinary creativity” often matters more than exceptional genius.

Drawing from his extensive body of work across sixty years, Mintzberg provides a masterclass in critical thinking for anyone who leads teams or organizations. His irreverent style makes complex ideas accessible without sacrificing depth, making this book as intellectually stimulating as it is practically valuable.

Whether you're a seasoned executive, an aspiring manager, or a student of organizational behavior, this concise volume will challenge your assumptions and provide a clear-eyed framework for more effective, humane management.

09/14/2026

Henry Mintzberg has spent decades studying what managers actually do all day, and his answer cuts against a lot of popular thinking. Management isn't calm, controlled decision-making from the top. It's constant interruption, real-time problem solving, and communicating nonstop.

His new book also takes aim at a bigger myth: that leadership is somehow nobler than management. Mintzberg's take is the opposite. You can't lead well if you can't manage, and you can't manage well if you're not leading.

Read the full article from The Globe and Mail to see why he thinks the MBA might not be preparing anyone to manage at all.

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McGill University management professor Henry Mintzberg argues it’s deceptive and wrong-headed describe the task of managing planning, organizing, co-ordinating and controlling

09/10/2026

John Perkins built his reputation exposing how economic hit men manipulate nations from the outside. Now he's turning that same lens on the presidency itself. In The Art of the Steal, Perkins argues Trump took the playbook he spent decades investigating abroad and brought it home.

Hear him talk through it live. Perkins is at Book Passage TODAY! Free admission, open seating, and a signing line after the talk.

San Francisco friends, this is a rare chance to ask the author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man your questions directly.

📍 Book Passage, San Francisco, 1 Ferry Building
🗓️ Thursday, September 10, 5:30 PM

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09/10/2026

Cover reveal for When Life Disrupts Work by Nataliya Boychenko Stone

When life disrupts work, leaders need to know what to do next. This practical guide shows leaders at organizations of every size, from small businesses to large corporations, how to support employees through hard moments while strengthening trust across the workplace.

This is the book to read before the crisis happens, so you can respond with confidence, care, and clarity when it does.

Life disruptions do not stay outside the workplace. Grief, illness, caregiving, divorce, infertility, and other major life events shape how people show up at work, yet most organizations still do not prepare leaders for these moments. Even caring managers can freeze, unsure what to say, how to help, or how to balance support with team needs.

The challenge is not whether a life disruption will affect your team. It is when. The leaders who build trust in difficult moments are the ones who prepare before those moments arrive.

Drawing on original PhD research, interviews with employees and leaders, and nearly two decades of experience advising employers on benefits and workplace strategy, Dr. Nataliya Boychenko Stone gives leaders a practical guide for responding with confidence and care. She shows readers how to

- understand what support an employee actually needs,
- connect people with the right workplace resources,
- adjust work with clarity and flexibility,
- stay present after the first crisis moment, and
- support employees while maintaining accountability.

This practical framework helps managers, HR professionals, and organizational leaders navigate life's most challenging moments at work while strengthening trust, loyalty, and performance across their teams.

09/09/2026

All writers think they understand permissions and the use of other people's material. Almost none of them do. Time and again, we see authors confidently making wrong assumptions:

+ It’s only one line from a song or poem.

+ I took the photo myself.

+ I’m only quoting forty words from another book.

+ The author personally gave me permission.

+ I cited the source.

+ It’s already everywhere on the internet.

+ I didn’t quote them—I just paraphrased their point.

Just as often, I see authors spending time and money obtaining permissions they didn't actually need in the first place. In this Cranky Editorial session, we'll separate fact from fiction. We'll explore what permissions are actually required, what Fair Use really means (as opposed to what people think it means), where the biggest legal traps lie, and how to avoid both unnecessary expense and potentially costly mistakes.

You could pay a publishing attorney about $700 an hour to walk you through all of this, or you can spend an hour with this pain in the butt who has spent more than three decades dealing with these issues—for free (because we believe informed and knowledgeable authors write better books, and better books benefit everyone). Go register now >>> https://hubs.li/Q04wFyXm0

09/08/2026

Since World War II, US presidents of both parties have relied on an economic hit man strategy.

They have used the four pillars of that strategy (fear, debt, anxiety over insufficiency, and divide and conquer) to control other nations and enrich a growing oligarchy.

In the groundbreaking Confessions of an Economic Hit Man trilogy, John Perkins exposed the complex, expansive, and clandestine global network that serves the interests of powerful corporate, financial, and political entities. In The Art of the Steal, he reveals its most dangerous evolution.

Donald Trump represents a historic shift. He is the first US president to turn the economic hit man strategy into a personal brand and governing style. He has ascended the four pillars, brought the playbook home, and reversed the march toward the American ideal of liberty, equality, justice, democracy, opportunity, and an individualism that supports family and community. At the same time, he has forced what was hidden into the open.

This book explains

- how this happened,
- why it matters, and
- what each of us can do to turn things around.

Both warning and blueprint, it offers a pathway to renewing the American ideal—and using it to model a new global ideal.

09/07/2026

Equitable workplaces don't build themselves. Minal Bopaiah wrote the guide for leaders who want to do the work, and five years later it's still one of our most requested titles.

Grab the ebook for $1.99 this week only, September 7-13, anywhere ebooks are sold.

09/07/2026

A guest's complaint can be the start of your strongest relationship with them, if you know how to receive it. That's the idea at the center of Rachel Alday's conversation with Zach Busekrus on Behind the Stays. Rachel, founder of Abode Luxury Rentals and co-author of Please Do Disturb, talks about the service recovery moment that reshaped how her team operates, why she's wary of handing guest communication over to AI, and the three commitments that guide Abode's culture: show up, make room, build belonging.

A good listen for anyone leading a service business: https://hubs.li/Q04wFx5D0

Podcast Episode · Behind the Stays · August 12 · 57m

09/04/2026

New season, new free book. If you're a BK Community member (Advocate or Catalyst), head to the Book Boosters page on our website, under Members, and claim one of 9 new titles on us, no strings attached.

If you're not a member, this is basically what you're missing: a free book every season and discounts the rest of the year. Kind of a no brainer.

Check out the full lineup and join the BK Community if you haven't yet!

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