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Blog / ChangeThis
The Presentation of Data Graphics In Everyday Life
By Kristen Sosulski
"Consider how our smartphones, social media platforms, or even search engines alter the pace, pattern, and scale of our daily activities. Think about your own process for selecting restaurants, documenting moments, and sharing your thoughts with others and the role that your media plays in these activities. Next, consider pictorial representations of data, or data graphics as a medium. How have data graphics proliferated their presence in our everyday life. Navigation systems guide us from one location to another through narrated directions accompanied by digital maps, annotated with points of interests like the nearest coffee shops, shoe stores, or art museums as alternative pathways to peak our interest and reroute us from our original destination. Aside from navigation aids, data graphics accompany news reports, research findings, and advertisements as both supporting evidence and alternative narratives. [. . . ] [. . . ] When used with integrity and purpose, data graphics have the potential to help us, as humans, make sense of this intensely data focused world.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Business Must Make Life Better
By Richard Hardyment
"Big business today is under scrutiny like never before. Trust is flaky. Consumers are cynical. Many companies talk about playing a role in society—through philanthropic giving and environmentally sustainable practices. But few have defined their ambitions for life. Companies have a phenomenal impact on how people feel—our wellbeing. Yet there has been a deafening silence from the private sector about the central purpose of human existence. In our turbulent world of change, we desperately need a more human form of capitalism that places people at its heart—whether that's farmers supplying raw materials, factory workers creating goods, or shoppers buying and consuming products and services. We need business to embrace a wellbeing purpose with an audacious ambition: to make life feel better."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Prepare for Your Lucky Break
By Randy Komisar
"A long career in business has impressed upon me the unpredictability of success. As an entrepreneur and investor this lesson is particularly sobering. When I started, I felt that my hard work and a modicum of intelligence would propel me to certain success. Simply put one foot in front of the other. But living in the Silicon Valley casino has changed my view. Success is, after all, relative. There is much written about the short half-life of the joy experienced after receiving a significant windfall if others have received an even greater sum. It seems we can't even gauge our own success without comparison to others. And in Silicon Valley, the relative distribution of success appears largely random. That is not to say that many of the successful icons of innovation aren't impressive; it's to say that in comparison to so many of the also-rans they are virtually indistinguishable. And that realization alone is humbling."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity, and the Power of Change
By Porchlight
Beth Comstock's new book is a great resource for thinking about the constant change swirling about us today, and how to make a positive change in your life and in the life of your organization, from one of America's top business minds and practitioners.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and How It's Changing the World
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Bethany McLean's new book exposes the faulty foundation of America's shale revolution, and in so doing offers a clearer base of facts for the discussion on how to proceed.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Strategyman vs. the Anti-Strategy Squad: Using Strategic Thinking to Defeat Bad Strategy and Save Your Plan
By Porchlight
Rich Horwath's new book on strategy is unlike those he—or anyone else—has written in the past.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Anand Giridharadas' new book questions the MarketWorld order of business and philanthropy, and the currently ascendent approach to social change.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / New Releases
Business Books to Watch in September
By 800-CEO-READ
These are just some of the books we'll be getting between the covers of in September.
Categories: new-releases, narrative-biography, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / Blog
800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for August 2018
By 800-CEO-READ
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for August 2018.
Categories: the-company
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World
By Porchlight
Lawrence D. Burns went from the executive suites of Detroit to advise Silicon Valley, and uses that breadth of experience to tell the story of the quest for, and importance of, driverless cars.
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