ChangeThis
The original idea behind ChangeThis came from Seth Godin, and was built in the summer of 2004 by Amit Gupta, Catherine Hickey, Noah Weiss, Phoebe Espiritu, and Michelle Sriwongtong. In the summer of 2005, ChangeThis was turned over to 800-CEO-READ. In addition to selling and writing about books, they kept ChangeThis up and running as a standalone website for 14 years. In 2019, 800-CEO-READ became Porchlight, and we pulled ChangeThis together with the rest of our editorial content under the website you see now. We remain committed to the high-design quality and independent spirit of the original team that brought ChangeThis into the world.
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The Resurrection of the American Dream
By Craig Hall, Linden Gross
"Over the course of the last several decades, the number of new startups in the U.S. has been on a steady decline. In fact, from 2008 to 2011, more U.S. businesses died annually than new ones were started for the first time in recorded history. Add to this that according to the Economic Innovation Group, only twenty counties—out of 3,149—generated half of the net new businesses between 2010 and 2014. Additionally, 75 percent of venture capital in the U.S. goes to only three areas—Silicon Valley, New York, and Boston. This has left much of the United States a wasteland in terms of entrepreneurial activity. And the punches keep on coming."
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Future Proof: Reinventing Work in an Age of Acceleration
By Diana Wu David
"The future of work looks bewildering. The perpetual mention of accelerating change gives us motion sickness. … Exponential change means that everyone is perpetually considering how to re-invent themselves to keep up with shifting careers and mores."
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The Future of Sales is Radically Transparent—Are you Ready?
By Todd Caponi
"Buyers are driven by an innate desire to predict the experience they will have in making a purchase. Combine that with the proliferation of feedback and reviews on everything we buy, watch and experience, along with the feelings of trust created by authenticy, honesty and transparency. Sellers must now embrace this evolution."
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How to Turn Complexity Into Advantage
By David Komlos, David Benjamin
"With all the fuss about unprecedented and accelerating complexity, you'll probably be surprised to hear that today's standout leaders are solving their organization's defining challenges—including the seemingly intractable ones—and achieving their biggest goals at least ten-times faster and with a fraction of the effort than their peers."
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A Leader's Most Powerful Tool: Choosing When to Say No
By Janelle Bruland
"Isn't it funny that one of the most important words to say is also one of the hardest? One simple word: no. Yet, to say it brings up a flood of feelings—guilt, defensiveness, a fear of offending. … Yet, the ability to say 'no,' to set boundaries and build a structure that works for us, is one of the most important tools we can add to our arsenals to successfully create our best lives."
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How to Stop Procrastinating
By Sam Horn
"Are you a charter member of the Procrastinator's Club? Their motto is 'We're behind you all the way.' I'm a woman on a mission to help people put procrastination behind them. Why is this so important? Because procrastination is a prescription for regrets. When we get to the end of our life, we won't regret the things we did, we'll regret the things we didn't do. That's the purpose of this manifesto: to share best-practices on how to stop procrastinating on the little things, the big things, and the important things so we can prevent regrets. Here we go."
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Does Real Leadership Require Spirituality?
By Hilary Jane Grosskopf
"Spirituality is not a religion; it is guided by practices, not beliefs. It shows through in the decisions you make and the actions you take. Successful leaders embrace spirituality, as well as structure and logic, to move the team and vision forward."
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Leading Loyalty: Cracking the Code to Customer Devotion
By Sandy Rogers, Leena Rinne, Shawn Moon
"You build customer loyalty when the people in your organization show empathy for customers, take responsibility for helping them reach their real goals, and treat them generously. Earning loyalty is much more than teaching good service techniques or giving everyone a copy of Customer Service for Dummies and ordering the team to smile and say, 'Have a nice day.'"
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Reinventing Reinvention: Choosing the Continuous 'Wise Pivot' Over One-Time Transformation
By Omar Abbosh, Paul Nunes, Larry Downes
"The relentless digital disruption of one industry after another has left leaders looking for a new path to the future. In a world of light-speed technological advances and overnight disruption from all directions, the large-scale business 'transformations' of old no longer suffice, if they ever did."
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The Essential Actions to Building Unstoppable Teams
By Alden Mills
"Care is the soil from which teams grow; a leader's focus provides the fertilizer. Unpack that statement, and you'll understand what it takes to grow a group of individuals into an Unstoppable Team."
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