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Blog / ChangeThis
Archaic "Best" Business Practices Toxic to Resilience, Innovation, and Change (Plus, What To Do Instead!)
By Carol Sanford
"The concept of 'best practices' is no protection against toxic practices. Most of these 'Best Practices' have never been validated, and some are particularly toxic themselves—whether that is in how they develop strategy, lead people, or change an industry. Most are marketing hype invented by a consultant company. Of course, everyone wants to have the 'best' way to work. But by what standards? Most businesses just layer on a new program to soften the negative effects of last year's program. But they are not examined rigorously before they are adopted. Lost is the deep reconceptualization of how to design and carry out work in a way that develops the highest aspect of human beings. Some programs and practices even undermine our role as citizens. Amazingly, the practices even outlast the companies that adopt them, carried forward by Human Resource professionals and leaders who are hired elsewhere."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Calling All Leaders
By Constance Dierickx PhD
"High-Stakes Leadership has a ring of drama, for good reason. When risk is great and uncertainty low, missteps can have catastrophic results. When we think of high-stakes most of us can name the obvious situations. Too often, we think that people who lead in high-stakes matters are special people. They are not. You do not need to be a special person, with super-human powers and nerves of steel as the examples in this manifesto will show. What do you need? Courage, character, judgment, and fortitude."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Expectant Non-Profit: A Guide for Navigating the Healthy Growth of Organizations
By Maxine Harris PhD
"Non-profit organizations can be fragile things. In the beginning, they need a lot of tender loving care. But just because you make it out of that first rough year, don't expect smooth sailing. Fewer than 50% of all non-profits make it to their 5th birthday! Not exactly a mortality rate to be proud of. Just like new parents often need a 'how to' book, so do new non-profit CEOs. So here it is, a guide for helping your organization flourish and live well into old age ... "
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
What Your Career Needs Now Is Some Relational Intelligence
By Angie McArthur, Dr. Dawna Markova
"Likely you have been schooled in many rational strategies, but you probably never received any training that fosters relational intelligence. Relational Intelligence is the ability to connect with those who think differently through communication, understanding, learning and trust. It is what enables you to grow yourself with another. In this age of complexity, chaos, and constantly changing teams, the more skill you have to work and relate across differences, the more effective and happier you will be. For twenty years the two of us have been passionately developing and offering strategies for senior leaders around the world that increase relational intelligence."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Creating Change from the Inside-Out
By Todd Davis
"You may have heard the phrase that people are an organization's greatest asset. As a human resource director for many years, that philosophy guided my professional decisions. But after 14 years as a Chief People Officer, I see things a little differently. I've learned that it's not only the people who determine an organization's performance, it's what happens between people that makes the greatest impact on effectiveness. Your organization's ability to achieve sustained superior performance depends on the nature of the relationships inside it: how well people work together, how respectfully they treat one another, how carefully they listen to customers and suppliers, and how leaders model the type of behavior that attracts, retains and develops the best talent. In the end, it's the collective behavior within an organization's culture—how most people act most of the time—that is an organization's greatest competitive advantage."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / Book Giveaways
The 2017 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards: Marketing & Sales Book Giveaway
By Porchlight
This week, we are giving away the five best books on Marketing & Sales published in 2017.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Breaking Bad Habits: Defy Industry Norms and Reinvigorate Your Business
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Freek Vermeulen believes that the key to innovation may not be finding something to add to your organization, but finding something to subtract.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / News & Opinion
Inside the Longlist: The Best Management & Workplace Culture Books of 2017
By Dylan Schleicher
Taking a look inside five best books on management and workplace culture books published in 2017.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / Excerpts
Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul
By 800-CEO-READ
Founder Shawn Askinosie, along with CMO Lawren Askinosie, tells us the secret of Askinosie Chocolate’s success—in addition, of course, to its honestly sourced cocoa.
Categories: excerpts, narrative-biography
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Blog / Book Giveaways
The 2017 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards: Management & Workplace Culture Book Giveaway
By Porchlight
This week, we'll be giving away the five best books published in the Management & Workplace Culture category in 2017.
Categories: giveaways
