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Blog / ChangeThis
The Finch Effect: How Adaptability Will Save Your Career (and Happiness)
By Nacie Carson
"Our job market is in a perpetual state of turmoil these days. Every month, we hold our breaths waiting for some positive sign in the unemployment numbers, and every month it seems we are disappointed. The gains that have been made since the official end of the recession in 2009 have been minimal, and the changes we see in jobless rates each month are nominal at best. This economic twilight zone puts everything is on hold—our careers, our dreams for our family, our most basic happiness. We bite our nails and turn to one another asking "How long can this go on? When will things go back to normal?" But in our modern age, this age of Vocational Darwinism, the only people we can truly expect the answers to come from is ourselves. And the only way to answer those questions and take life off hold is to adapt."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The How Manifesto: Why How Business Gets Done Around the World is the New Competitive Advantage, and New Metrics for a New Reality
By Dov Seidman
"'How?' is not just a question. HOW is the answer. HOW. We'll see that word a lot in this manifesto. Simply stated, HOW is the belief that in our more interconnected and interdependent world, we rise and fall together. The way to forge a better, more sustainable path of growth and progress lies in the realm of human behavior—HOW we do what we do. The days of "It's not personal; it's just business" are over. We truly have entered the Era of Behavior. Leaders have become successful at measuring "how much" by out-selling and out-spending. But instead of asking "how much", we should be examining HOW. How we behave, lead, consume, build trust in our relationships, and relate to others has always mattered but in an age when everything can be tweeted and blogged about and where there is no such thing as private behavior, HOW matters more than ever and in ways it never has before."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Cure the (Self-Inflicted) Chaos First
By Karen Martin
"More than 80 percent of improvement efforts fail to make a discernible difference in overall business performance, regardless of the improvement methodology in use. The reason isn't a flaw in the methodologies, but a flaw inside of companies. Organizations in all sectors fail to meet their full potential because of self-inflicted chaos. I'm not talking about acute cases of chaos brought on by external events over which a company has little control, such as sudden supply chain disruptions, new regulations, or economic downturns. I'm talking about chronic long-term chaos brought about by ambiguity, lack of focus, inconsistency—habits and behaviors that organizations can control but choose not to. Self-inflicted chaos is an insidious disease that must be addressed before any meaningful improvement in performance can be achieved."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
How Perceptions Shape Realities
By Baldev Seekri
"In our daily existence, we are constantly on a trip, going from one place to another. It is true whether we are faced with a situation threatening our survival, simply following our daily routine, or met with an unprecedented opportunity to thrive. Our journey is a needed activity that we too often view as a burden, as obligatory and forced. We thus make our journey a monotonous routine, depriving ourselves of memorable experiences and the enjoyment that we really deserve. A large majority of us do not understand that our perceptual view of our journey has a powerful influence on the enjoyment (or lack of it) and the feeling of accomplishment (or lack of it) we could receive from it."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / News & Opinion
2012 Business Book Awards
By 800-CEO-READ
Thousands of business books are published each year, each with the potential to promote change and enlighten the way people think about business. We began recognizing these efforts in 2007 with the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards, highlighting the best works in a number of categories. Each book is judged on the originality and applicability of its ideas and the quality of its content.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Red Ink
By 800-CEO-READ
You may know David Wessel as the white bearded journalist from Washington Week. What you may not know even if you watch that show is how great a writer he is. He is the Wall Street Journal economics editor, has multiple Pulitzer Prizes, and when we were still reeling from financial catastrophe in 2009 he wrote a brilliant book, In Fed We Trust, about the folks putting out the fire that made me feel as the world might not end after all.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Planned Productivity: Take Control of Your Time
By Sally Haldorson
New now on KnowledgeBlocks! Modern work environments are a productivity challenge for even the most dedicated employee. Workplaces are less structured and more efficient, so there aren't as many managers insuring noses stay bent to the grindstone.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Yes to the Mess
By 800-CEO-READ
Generally, we want to avoid the mess, the uncertainty, the chaos, yet as good as we become at managing and making decisions, there it is: The Mess. We can continue to work at managing it, which might burn us out. Or, we can find ways to work with the mess.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Staff Picks
Phantoms on the Bookshelves
Book Review by 800-CEO-READ
People collect all manner of material goodness—cars, antiques, orchards, and art. . .
Categories: staff-picks, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
On Reading
By 800-CEO-READ
You might come to this site because you're looking to buy boxes of books. Maybe you come here because you just want to see what we're talking about. Or maybe you've never been here before and want to see what it's all about.
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