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Being Irreplaceable
By 800-CEO-READ
As the economy and job market continue to climb back on their feet, a few books have been published that address the 'survivors' on a personal level, the most notable being Seth Godin's Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? In it, the author describes the characteristics that define a person who brings value to the work, groups, and experiences they are involved in. On one hand a personal development book, on the other hand, it's an economic development book, as it addresses how we as individuals can contribute to turning things around for the companies we work for in the process.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
ChangeThis: Issue 71
By 800-CEO-READ
Ladies and gentleman, it's the 71th issue of ChangeThis. Excerpts and links below. ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ Plenitude: A Statement On Economics, Ecology & True Wealth by Juliet Schor “Business-as-usual economics relies on stimulating GNP to solve virtually all problems.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / ChangeThis
168 Hours: The Blank Slate of Time
By Laura VanderKam
"It is an unquestioned truth of modern life: we are all starved for time. With the rise of 2-income families, extreme jobs, and the ability to log on to the world around the clock, we can barely find time to breathe. At least that's the way the story goes. Yet there are some people who don't seem to feel this way. Not only do they have full personal and professional lives, they often claim they could fit more in if they wished! How do these people do so much with their time? How do they do so much and not even feel stressed about it?"
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Four-Letter Word That Makes You and Your Work Irresistible
By Mark Sanborn
"Some years ago I wrote a book about an extraordinary individual who loves his work. My editor at the time deleted the word love every place I used it. Instead, he suggested using the phrase 'generosity of spirit.' 'Why not love?' I inquired. 'Because the word love freaks out businesspeople,' he responded."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
How To Shrink the Human Footprint: And How Going Back To Nature Would Be a Disaster For Nature
By Matt Ridley
"I am going to argue that the ecological footprint of human activity is probably shrinking at an accelerating rate and that we are getting more sustainable, not less, in the way we use the planet. In a nutshell, the most sustainable thing we can do, and the best for the planet, is to accelerate technological change and economic growth."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Management By Shared Mindset: Leadership That Makes Work Meaningful and Profitable At the Same Time
By Dave Ulrich, Wendy Ulrich
"In the last few years, leaders have been encouraged to be bold, confident, authentic and grounded so that they can make decisions that help get things done. In the economic recession, these leaders responded quickly and decisively. We admire leaders who lead. But, we suggest that coming out of the recession, leaders need to shift their approach to lead by becoming meaning makers."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Achieving Predictable Success
By Les McKeown
"As a serial entrepreneur who has personally launched over 40 businesses, and as a consultant and coach to hundreds of business leaders, I've come to realize that the 'growth code' is out there, in plain view for anyone who knows where to look. There is indeed a code, a pattern, a DNA if you will, to achieving predictable success. The difficulty is that because most business leaders work in a limited number of business environments during their career, they don't have the opportunity to see the pattern recur often enough to successfully decode it."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Plenitude: A Statement On Economics, Ecology & True Wealth
By Juliet Schor
"Business-as-usual economics relies on stimulating GNP to solve virtually all problems. But GNP is increasingly de-linked from the well-being of most Americans. Since the mid 1970s, it has diverged from most social well-being indicators. So even if GNP does continue to grow, and the recession is officially declared over, the implications for most households are different from in the past."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Shallows: Interview with Nicholas Carr
By 800-CEO-READ
Last year, Nicholas Carr wrote a book called The Big Switch on how computing was changing history, the economy, and our lives in powerful ways. His new book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains addresses the issue from a different standpoint: That the internet, while extremely useful, is making us become more dependent on it, and in the process, is literally changing the neurological patterns in our brains, and thus, how we think. Controversial but insightful, this is the kind of book that makes you step aside from routines you didn't even realize you were a part of, and examine them.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Genius of the Beast & Creation Stories
Book Review by 800-CEO-READ
Tell me a creation story, from the Sumerian Enuma Elish to Tolkien's Ainulindalë in the The Silmarillion, and you've probably got me hooked. So I am reading Howard Bloom'sThe Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism with considerable interest. As the author writes in the prologue: Every Culture needs a creation myth, a vision of how it came to be.
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