Most Recent Articles
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik have written a book about the increasing complexity of the world that makes it easy to understand, and oddly enjoyable to read.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / Book Giveaways
How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind
By Porchlight
Leah Weiss brings the lessons from her Stanford course on Leading with Mindfulness and Compassion out of the classroom, and into a bookstore near you.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Excerpts
Story Driven: You Don't Need to Compete When You Know Who You Are
By Blyth Meier
If you want to build a great company, a thriving entrepreneurial venture, or a fulfilling career, Bernadette Jiwa's latest book proves you don't need to compete when you know who you are.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance—and What We Can Do About It
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Jeffrey Pfeffer explains why making employee health and well-being integral to the company’s culture and values is not only good for the employees, but a competitive advantage that is also good for the company’s bottom line.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Soon: An Overdue History of Procrastination, from Leonardo and Darwin to You and Me
By Porchlight
Andrew Santella has written "An entertaining, fact-filled defense of the nearly universal tendency to procrastinate."
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Claire Evans tells the story of the computer, and the internet, through the women who developed the languages they speak.
Categories: editors-choice, narrative-biography
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Blog / ChangeThis
For Outstanding Performance, Change How You Solve Problems
By Karen Martin
"Ask any business leader if he or she is good at solving problems and the likely response is, 'Of course!' After all, business leaders spend a lot of their time navigating problems. If they weren't good at it, those leaders would lose their jobs, wouldn't they? Not if the organization doesn't know what robust problem solving looks like. Most organizations don't and as a result they perform below their potential."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Willpower Is an Outdated Model of Success: Here's the Future of Self-improvement
By Benjamin Hardy
"It's no wonder willpower has been placed under the media spotlight as essential to success. In a negative environment, willpower's all we have left. It's the life-raft, the backup parachute. And we're depending on it to save our skins. It takes a lot of willpower to remain positive in a negative environment. It's difficult to constantly say no when those around you are eating junk food. Or even worse, when you're required to exert willpower in your own home because you bought junk food you knew deep down you didn't want to eat. This is a huge waste of mental and emotional resources. Instead of being told to change their environment, the prominent self-help advice continues to charge people to change themselves. I can't emphasize enough how terrible this advice is. It's actually impossible to change yourself without also changing your environment. Your environment and you are two indivisible parts of the same whole."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Forget Everything You Know About Culture
By Denise Lee Yohn
"Most of the existing rhetoric on culture says that managers must be warm and nurturing and they must treat their employees like family, being encouraging and inclusive. That's just wrong. You don't need to offer a supportive, benevolent culture to be a great manager, organization, or business. And anyone who insists that you must have a certain type of culture gravely misunderstands the role culture plays in an organization. Culture is what enables your company to execute on its strategy and achieve its goals. It's part of what differentiates your organization. It helps you attract, develop, motivate, and retain the right employees. Just as there isn't a single brand identity that fits all companies, no one type of culture is right for all organizations. And just as it would be ridiculous to try to imitate another company's brand, it doesn't make sense for you to try to copy another organization's culture."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
A Better Business through a Great Place to Work for All
By Michael C. Bush CEO, The Great Place to Work Research Team
"What it means to be a great workplace has evolved. We have entered a new era, a new frontier in business. Our economy has evolved through agrarian, industrial, and 'knowledge' phases to the point where the essential qualities of human beings—things like passion, creativity, and a willingness to work together—are the most critical. In this 'human economy,' every employee matters. "
Categories: changethis
