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Blog / ChangeThis
The Community of Leaders
By Vince Molinaro
"Leaders today are yearning for something more meaningful. The reason is for many of us, the experience of leadership has been mediocre at best. Think of your own experience. There's a good chance you and your fellow leaders haven't been on the same page because strategic clarity has been low. You spend too much time working at cross-purposes. Or maybe the primary focus is on protecting turf and competing internally, silo against silo. Conflict seems to run rampant. Frustration is high, and getting anything done feels next to impossible. Or your experience may be one of sheer apathy, where there is little energy or vitality. You and your fellow leaders seem to only be going through the motions, bystanders cloaked with fancy leadership titles. It's exhausting and often demoralizing. Whatever the experience, you may end up questioning why you ever became a leader in the first place. You also know deep down that there has to be a better way. I'm here to tell you that there is. ".
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Rewriting The Myths of Creativity
By David Burkus
"There is a mythology that surrounds creativity. Cultures develop myths when they can't rely on existing knowledge to explain the world around them. They are developed and passed down in an effort to explain why certain mysterious events occur, or to affirm how we should behave and think. Creativity is no different. These myths were prevalent almost everywhere I looked—everywhere except in the most innovative companies and people. If we want to be more creative, if we want our organizations to be more innovative, then we have to learn from these companies and individuals, use the wealth of empirical research at hand, and rewrite the myths of creativity."
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How To Future-Proof Your Career
By Jocelyn K. Glei
"The first co-working space was opened in San Francisco in 2005. Today, there are over 2500 co-working spaces in existence around the world. Cellphones first began to be used by the general population in 2000. Now, roughly 85% of the world has access to a mobile phone. Facebook was founded less than 10 years ago. Today, 1.25 billion people use the service. (That's 1 out of every 7 people on planet Earth.) Today, the way we interact with people, the tools we use, and the way we work are all changing at an incredibly rapid pace. This has huge implications for the way we run our careers. In fact, it demands that we utterly reinvent our approach, shifting from a focus on past accomplishments—the 'resum model'—to constant self-iteration, or what I think of as the 'learner's model.' To move to this model, we must adopt a new set of career rules. A set of rules that are, quite literally, made to broken."
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Blog / News & Opinion
Amazon's Best, and the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award
By 800-CEO-READ
The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award was announced last night. Unsurprisingly, I suppose, it did not go to Steven Mandis's excellent book on Goldman Sachs—What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider's Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences released by Harvard Business Review Press last month. That would be like Amazon announcing their best book of the year was Brad Stone's The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon.
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Jack Covert Selects - Creative Confidence
By 800-CEO-READ
As children, we were encouraged to practice at everything—our multiplication tables, piano lessons, batting/catching/kicking/throwing. With practice, we were told, comes perfect (or at least proficiency).
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Jack Covert Selects - Dot Complicated
By 800-CEO-READ
I know people who swear that they would feel isolated if it weren’t for their smart phones and social media. And I know people who have become overwhelmed by the proliferation of devices and digital communication, and don’t welcome technology’s further incursion into their personal lives.
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Jack Covert Selects - Junkyard Planet
By Porchlight
Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade by Adam Minter, Bloomsbury Press, 304 pages, $26. 00, Hardcover, November 2013, ISBN 9781608197910 You have probably wondered (and maybe even think you have a good idea of) what happens to your garbage after it leaves your home. But, have you ever wondered how much your garbage is worth?
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Blog / News & Opinion
New KB Giveaway! Adversaries into Allies by Bob Burg
By Sally Haldorson
Most business books are social science books. Sometimes they are given the "self help" label, and while business books are often about growing or evolving the self, they are more often about relationships, and how to work with other people to benefit both parties, whether it is manager-to-employee, marketer-to-client, or peer-to-peer. While social science is technically concerned with individual relationships in a society, it isn't too far of a reach to say that organizations are their own small society.
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Two Birds in a Tree: Timeless Indian Wisdom for Business Leaders
By Sally Haldorson
Author Ram Nidumolu tells us upfront that Two Birds in a Tree: Timeless Indian Wisdom for Business Leaders is "only a road map" and that "you will have to create the guidebook yourself because this is your own unique journey. " Journey toward what? Toward Being.
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ChangeThis: Issue 110
By 800-CEO-READ
Making Decisions like Tomorrow Depends on It by Tom Rath “No matter how healthy you are today, you can take specific actions to have more energy and live longer. Regardless of your age, you can make better choices in the moment. Small decisions—about how you eat, move, and sleep each day—count more than you think.
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