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Blog / Book Giveaways
CAUSE!: A Business Strategy for Standing Out in a Sea of Sameness
By Porchlight
In their latest book, Jackie and Kevin Freiberg have turned out a highly visual and inspirational treatise on the importance of cause in our lives, and in the lives of companies.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Performance Breakthrough: A Radical Approach to Success at Work
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Cathy Salit provides us with tools to keep growing, and teaches us how to take on new roles and mindsets as individuals and organizations.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / ChangeThis
Executive Presence: Getting to the Bottom of What Takes Leaders to the Top
By Suzanne Bates
"Executive presence has long been a catch-all phrase. When you ask people to define it, they often answer, "I'm not sure, but I know it when I see it." When pressed they might say it's body language, gravitas, charisma, or presentation skill. Countless books, articles, and TED talks reinforce this idea. All you need to do is walk on stage like you belong there, open up your gestures, and command the room. Yet it seems like there's more. And there is."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Sharing Power: Why It Requires Deep Personal Change
By Robert J. Anderson, William A. Adams
"Sharing power always means that someone has to let go of control, and someone has to accept more responsibility. Power is a major variable around which our self-world relationship is formed. Some people maintain a sense of personal safety and worth by having power; others establish their identity by giving their power in exchange for protection and belonging. Our relationship with power is a big part of how we create our sense of identity. Our approaches to change are far too casual about both asking managers to let go of control and assuming that others will want increased responsibility. When we redistribute power, we ask people to reconstruct themselves—and that requires deep personal change."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Profit with Purpose: The New Guiding Conscience of Global Capitalism
By Billee Howard
"In today's We-Conomy, profit is not enough. For a brand to be truly successful over the long-term, as benchmarked against the world's leading companies, it must innovate and create for the we and not the me, and also aim to profit in ways that provide collective purpose beyond a self-interested, fattened bottom-line. An age of brands as republics aimed at both serving and protecting the world at large is upon us."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Door to Door Manifesto: How to Fix Traffic. Now.
By Edward Humes
"Traffic. If you're a commuter, it's your daily torture. If you run a business, it represents hair-pulling risk and cost. The U.S. economy suffers a $160 billion annual hit in lost productivity from traffic jams, while drivers in some major cities spend up to two work weeks stuck bumper to bumper. Long and congested commutes even correlate with higher rates of divorce, stress, obesity and chronic pain. But all of this pales in comparison to the one, big, dirty secret of traffic: We know how to fix it."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Mission Impossible: How to Avoid Procrastination
By Helene Segura
"According to psychologists, procrastination is the act of wanting to feel good now. Basically, procrastination is the adult version of a three-year-old's 'I don't wanna!" tantrum. Procrastination can make life miserable. If we put off projects, phone calls, emails, or whatever the task may be, we end up working at breakneck pace in order to complete it at the eleventh hour. It's unnecessary stress that we bring upon ourselves. ... The research shows that overcoming procrastination comes down to thought control and self-regulation. It's all about mind management. Realizing that you're dragging your feet is the first key. Once this realization occurs, you're ready to play some strategic mind games with yourself."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Getting China Right
By Arthur R. Kroeber
"China's spectacular economic growth has been one of the most significant events of the past two decades. In a single generation the nation has vaulted from impoverished backwater to the world's second-biggest economy and biggest trading nation. Its growth has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, transformed global supply chains, and created great wealth. But the introduction of China's enormous working population into the world labor force has also helped depress wages in developed countries, and its huge capital flows have brought a new and potentially destabilizing force into the world's financial markets. For all these reasons and more, it's crucial to get China right. We need to understand how China works (and how it doesn't), why it works the way it does, where it might be headed in the coming years, and what this means for the rest of the world."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / Excerpts
Good for the Money: My Fight to Pay Back America
By Dylan Schleicher
Bob Benmosche tells the story of how he pulled AIG back from the brink of bankruptcy and engineered one of history's most astonishing corporate turnarounds.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Excerpts
Quench Your Own Thirst: Business Lessons Learned Over a Beer or Two
By Blyth Meier
Founder of The Boston Beer Company, Jim Koch, offers his unique perspective when it comes to business, beer, and turning your passion into a successful company or career.
Categories: excerpts, narrative-biography
