Most Recent Articles
-
Blog / ChangeThis
The Employee Experience: Expectations Alignment and Contracts
By Tracy Maylett, Matthew Wride
"Some mistakenly confuse the Employee Experience (EX) with popular terms like Talent Management, Human Resources Development, or Employee Engagement. While EX is certainly related to those terms, it's not synonymous with them. Employee Experience is much broader in scope. The Employee Experience is the sum of perceptions employees have about their interactions with the organization in which they work, and an effective Employee Experience doesn't come to pass without aligned expectations."
Categories: changethis
-
Blog / ChangeThis
How to Play With Fire: Equip Your Next Generation of Leaders to Deal with Anything
By Digby Scott
"Let's put it on the table. The vast majority of organizations put too much leadership development emphasis on people who are already in traditional leadership roles. And not enough on the people who are the promise of the future. Imagine a fire. The hottest part of the flame is at the bottom, not the top. The top gets all the attention, but the bottom is where the real energy is. You want to be able to harness and use the energy of the people nearer the bottom for positive change. Don't snuff it out before it gets going."
Categories: changethis
-
Blog / ChangeThis
The Spark and the Grind: Secrets of the World's Most Important Creators
By Erik Wahl
"Generating creativity takes an effort to make the initial spark. Thomas Edison once locked himself and five coworkers in his lab, where they labored for sixty hours without sleep to finish a working printing machine. This is the first truth you have to understand about creative endeavors: the spark comes to life at the expense of the grind. You will always run into problems when your efforts stop at the initial spark because rarely is the first spark the hottest and most potent. This was clearly true with Edison, who went on to win more than a thousand patents—including the light bulb—by working eighteen-hour days most of his life and famously finding '10,000 ways that won't work.'"
Categories: changethis
-
Blog / ChangeThis
How to Transcend the Transactional: Fuel a Lifelong Love Affair with Your Customers and Employees
By Tara-Nicholle Nelson
"This deep, human motivation—transformation—is one of the most elemental reasons people do the things they do. And it's certainly the pure, primal force underlying why they buy what they buy, read what they read and love what they love. In particular, there are three ways in which people have wanted their lives to be different throughout human history. And each of these involves a set of behavior changes that are extraordinarily difficult for people to make, without help. They want to be healthier They want to be wealthier They want to be wiser Those of us who have taken on business as our life's work must now elevate our thinking. We must dare to be different. Let's stop fixating on which pic to post on which channel. Instead, dedicate yourself and your company to the endeavor of becoming an agent and facilitator of the transformations that people want to make in their lives. Let's talk about why and how."
Categories: changethis
-
Blog / Book Giveaways
Gen Z @ Work: How the Next Generation Is Transforming the Workplace
By Porchlight
David and Jonah Stillman's new book examines a generation just now entering the workforce, and the changes they'll bring with them.
Categories: giveaways
-
Blog / Staff Picks
The Language of Loss is the Language of Life
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
Facing the loss of life requires a new kind of language, one that isn't secret, but shared.
Categories: staff-picks, narrative-biography
-
Blog / Editor's Choice
Time, Talent, Energy: Overcome Organizational Drag and Unleash Your Team's Productive Power
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Bain partners Michael C. Mankins and Eric Garton explain how to increase productivity by focusing on the organization instead of the individual.
Categories: editors-choice
-
Blog / Book Giveaways
The Best Team Wins: Build Your Business Through Predictive Hiring
By Porchlight
The people we hire are usually the greatest cost, and the greatest determination, of a company's success, but most don't have a defined process in place to hire, train, and retain their employees. Adam Robinson can help you remedy that.
Categories: giveaways
-
Blog / Editor's Choice
The Spark and the Grind: Ignite the Power of Disciplined Creativity
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Erik Wahl's new book is sure to create sparks of an idea and inspiration to follow it, as well as teaching you how to grind them out and keep creating more.
Categories: editors-choice
-
Blog / Staff Picks
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
Book Review by Blyth Meier
Adam Alter shines a light on behavioral addiction, and re-orients our relationship with the technologies we live with every day.
Categories: staff-picks
