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Blog / ChangeThis
Local Networks, Global Change: Working Locally through the UN Global Compact
By Mark Moody-Stuart
"The United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) is the world's largest corporate responsibility movement with some 8,000 businesses employing over 50 million people in around 150 countries. [...] Encouraging as it is, 8,000 companies represents only about ten percent of truly international companies in the world and only a tiny fraction of the small and medium enterprises which provide most employment. If we are to achieve real change we need to engage a much wider range of companies."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Customer Room: Grow Your Business by Improving Customers' Lives
By Jeanne Bliss
"The Customer Room is the glue that unites a leadership team to focus and improve customers' lives to earn the right to growth. Building a customer room to step leaders and the organization through your customers' lives and walk in their shoes monthly, quarterly, and annually is one of the most robust actions you can take to align leaders and drive customer-driven action. It engages leaders personally in customers' lives and unites them to make decisions. It establishes an accountability forum that transcends most governance meetings on the subject, where projects are reported but engaging in understanding and improving customers' lives is not always built-in."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Genius of Teams
By Rich Karlgaard, Michael S. Malone
"More than ever, business success now comes down to teams. Of course, teams have always been vitally important. One hundred thousand years ago, hunting teams were vital to the survival of early man. With the rise of agricultural civilization, teams were the basic operating unit of social hierarchies and communities. But for the last few millennia, while remaining a crucial building block, teams have been largely made subordinate to larger social organizations: armies, governments, bureaucracies, corporations, etc. But the rise of the digital age, the Internet, and the global economy has changed all of that. As with many other cultural institutions, technology is beginning to turn organizations upside down. "
Categories: changethis
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Perfection of the Paper Clip: Curious Tales of Invention, Genius, and Stationary Obsession
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
James Ward weaves a narrative of invention, entrepreneurship, and sometimes empire through the everyday objects all around us.
Categories: staff-picks, narrative-biography
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Blog / Excerpts
Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
By Blyth Meier
Digital media innovator Jay Samit investigates disruption's lessons for the entrepreneur.
Categories: excerpts, narrative-biography
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Team Genius: The New Science of High-Performing Organizations
By Porchlight
Rich Karlgaard and Michael S. Malone, two of the best business journalists working today who had two of the best books of 2014 (we named Malone's the best), are back in 2015 with a joint effort.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / News & Opinion
800-CEO-READ Remembers Avin Mark Domnitz
By Sally Haldorson
"He always said he was a bookseller, first and foremost."
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Team Genius: The New Science of High-Performing Organizations
By Dylan Schleicher
Two of our favorite writers, Rich Karlgaard and Michael S. Malone, have teamed up to tell us (and teach us) about the genius of teams.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / Blog
June 2015 Business Book Bestsellers
By Blyth Meier
Our business book bestsellers for the month of June, 2015
Categories: the-company
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Blog / Excerpts
No One Ever Told Us That: Money and Life Lessons for Young Adults
By Dylan Schleicher
Acclaimed investment advisor and novelist John Spooner has a new book of practical advice for any young person just getting a start in life.
Categories: excerpts
