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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Talking Strategy: Three Straightforward Ways to Make Your Strategy Stick
By Chip Heath, Dan Heath
The Heath Bros. walk the walk in this manifesto about three straightforward ways to make your strategy work. They preach the power of concrete language and stories to communicate your strategy effectively. Missed the Heath Bros. on "The Today Show" or NPR? Get to know them here because these ideas stick.
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Why Corporate "Goodness" is Not Enough: Rethinking Corporate Responsibility
By Christine Arena
Arena argues that the widely-held notion that corporate responsibility is about "doing good" marginalizes an important part of doing business in the 21st century. Instead, it is about innovation, changing as the world changes. She also lets us in on which extraordinary companies driven by purposeful ideas actually succeed.
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Keep It Real
By Julien Smith
Julien Smith confronts companies and marketers with a deceptively simple question: Are You Keeping It Real? And if you don't know what he means, you probably aren't. So, read up on how you can walk the walk in this new consumer-led century.
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Not a Dirty Word: Seven Steps to Creating an Accountability-Based Organization
By Bob Prosen
Prosen argues that the best way to produce extraordinary results within your organization is to create an accountability-based culture focused on producing results, not activities.
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The State of Competitive Advantage
By Mitchell Gooze
Looking forward, competitive advantage demands competent process management to navigate the tumultuous and frenetic environment that enterprises face. Your value acceleration, not just value creation, is the metric to determine your enterprise's success.
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Purposive Drift: Making It Up As We Go Along
By Richard Oliver
It is a common theory that successful people live their lives like a project plan, so we struggle to shape our lives along a pre-determined path. Instead, Oliver asserts that that the majority of people, many of them very successful, make it up as they go along. This smart manifesto offers a convincing and well-researched argument encouraging us to do a little drifting.
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You are Being Lied To and Other Truths
By Larry Winget
This is a manifesto's manifesto and an absolute ChangeThis reader must-read. Here, Larry Winget is everything you know him to be: upfront, relentless, hilarious, and full of wisdom about giving and getting business advice.
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Reclaim Your Life: A Two-Week Challenge to Help You Regain Time
By Stuart R. Levine
January 1st comes around and we've all made a resolution or two. By February 1st, we've failed more than we've succeeded and are back on last year's track. Stuart Levine has the antidote. Here are 11 of his 100 rules for changing your life and making more of your work/life balance.
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Work as Refuge: How to Add Meaning to Your Life at Work
By Jonathon Flaum
The alarm goes off. You stretch, yawn, put your feet on the floor, one foot in front of the other, get started on another unfulfilling day at the office. But it doesn't have to be that way. Jonathon Flaum shows you how to find meaning in your every day work.
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How to Become a Customer Action Hero in 10 Steps
By Jeanne Bliss
"Rate your experience from 1 to 10." "Would you recommend our company?" We ask the questions of our customers. But what do we do with their answers? Jeanne Bliss gives us the action plan to actually make our customers happy with our services.
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