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Blog / Book Giveaways
The Moonshot Effect: Disrupting Business as Usual
By Porchlight
What does Kennedy's challenge to get America to the moon have to do with your business? Leadership consultants Lisa Goldman and Kate Purmal explain.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Earning It: Hard-Won Lessons from Trailblazing Women at the Top of the Business World
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Veteran journalist Joann S. Lublin has documented a generation of women leaders that have changed the face of business, and the challenges women still face on a daily basis in business.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / Book Giveaways
People First Leadership: How the Best Leaders Use Culture and Emotion to Drive Unprecedented Results
By Porchlight
Eduardo P. Braun preaches the culture gospel with the faith of the converted, and he does it well.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Sebastian Mallaby has written a complete portrait of the most important and influential economic statesmen of our time.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / New Releases
The Only Sales Guide You'll Ever Need
By 800-CEO-READ
Anthony Iannarino, the man behind the wildly popular Sales Blog, has now written "The Only Sales Guide You'll Ever Need."
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Clayton Christensen changed the world of business with his theory of disruptive innovation. His “Theory of Jobs to Be Done” may be even bigger.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / Interviews
A Q&A with Leslie Michelson about The Patient's Playbook
By Sally Haldorson
Our general manager, Sally Haldorson, sent Leslie Michelson some questions about The Patient's Playbook.
Categories: interviews
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Blog / ChangeThis
Redefining ROI: Investing in your Return On Integrity
By John G. Blumberg
"It has always amazed me how large trees can weather the most intense storms. Their root system provides enduring strength, and it helps them stand strong in the best and worst of circumstances. Our core is like the root system of a tree. Among people, leaders are no different. It is our core that gives us the strength to lead. It enables us to endure the onslaught of daily storms and sustained periods of challenge. A strong core also enables us to manage our ego in the midst of wild success. A strong core holds us tight. If we are without a defined core, we likely hold tight to weak substitutes called attachments. These attachments come in many forms. Sometimes they are rules, policies, or procedures. Other times they are titles, positions, or power itself. For some, attachments are cliquish relationships. Attachments are the fertile ground where sacred cows are born. When we cling to attachments we tend to hold on to everything. Yet embracing your core values allows you to give confidently. There is a great difference between the impact of attachments and the impact of living one's core values; the results couldn't be further apart.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
"Bankers Are 'Only' Motivated By Money" (And Other Ways Organizations Domesticate Us)
By Todd M. Warner
"How do you shift the behaviour of bankers. This was the subject of a conversation. All of the people involved had considerably more experience in financial services than me, so their perspectives were particularly striking. The low point of the conversation happened when one of them said this: 'Bankers are only motivated by money. It is the only way we know how to get people in banking to do things. ' Now, I know some bankers, and count a number of them as friends. Watching them at soccer games and birthday parties, I'm struck by the fact that they're not "only" motivated by money (unless that child with the dirty nappy was slipping them some cash on the side). But this conversation reveals a more vexing problem: Organizations domesticate people. Like Pavlov and his dogs, we are trained to discrete patterns of responses in organizations. It is not flattering, but I would propose it is a reality we don't understand, nor take advantage of: organizations domesticate people to certain ways of working.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
How Leaders Can Master the Art of Accountability
By Jonathan Raymond
"Every business leader agrees that accountability is an essential ingredient in a healthy organizational culture. Which makes it all the more striking how little training there is out for leaders and managers on how to do it well. Employees are left carrying the bag—working for managers who don't have the relationship skills or emotional confidence to give them direct, early feedback with supportive guidance on how to make the changes the manager wants (but isn't saying). The cost to teams and organizations is high and widespread."
Categories: changethis
