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Blog / Book Giveaways
All the Leader You Can Be: The Science of Achieving Extraordinary Executive Presence
By Porchlight
Suzanne Bates and her team at Bates communications reveal the qualities you need to develop to be all the leader you can be.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / News & Opinion
Andrew S. Grove: 1936 - 2016
By Dylan Schleicher
Even the paranoid pass from the Earth someday. And, this week, we lost Andrew S. Grove.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Excerpts
Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy—And How to Make Them Work for You
By Dylan Schleicher
Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall Van Alstyne, and Sangeet Paul Choudary explain how the platform revolution is transforming the world as we know it and the work we do & and are able to do—along the way.
Categories: excerpts, narrative-biography
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Blog / Editor's Choice
An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Developmental psychologists Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey show us how to build development organizations that bring our workers out of hiding.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / News & Opinion
A Donation for Literacy and Creative Thinking
By Ryan Schleicher
J.P. Morgan and 800-CEO-READ have donated a portion of the sales from the J.P. Morgan Holiday Reading List to charities that align with the program’s mission.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / New Releases
Mastering the New Media Landscape: Embrace the Micromedia Mindset
By Dylan Schleicher
Veteran public relations and marketing professionals Barbara Cave Henricks and Rusty Shelton provide the roadmap to getting attention in this evolved media landscape.
Categories: new-releases, publishing-industry
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Blog / Book Giveaways
From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives
By Porchlight
Jeffrey E. Garten has penned a book about the history of globalization that is perfect for our times.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Under New Management: How Leading Organizations Are Upending Business as Usual
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
David Burkus provides us with a great list of seemingly heretical ideas to make out businesses more efficient.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / ChangeThis
Fast Coaching for Busy People: How to Coach in 10 Minutes or Less
By Michael Bungay Stanier
"As things have gotten faster and more complex, coaching's importance has only continued to rise. With Millennials now more than 50% of the workforce, every organization talks about the importance of managers and leaders being able to coach. But who has the time? Honestly. Sure, we'd all love to sit down for a nice 45 minute chat with everyone on the team if we could, but most of us don't even get to do that with the people we love in our life. At work, people are over-busy and overwhelmed. Meetings fill the day, and emails clog our inbox. And there's work to do as well. Don't despair. Coaching's something everyone can do, do quickly, and do in a way that will have a significant impact on performance and satisfaction. But to make it work for the time-crunched manager, you need to follow three principles"
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Closing the Decision Quality Gap
By Carl Spetzler, Hannah Winter, Jennifer Meyer
"One of the virtues of DQ is that it allows us to know if we've made a good decision at the time we are making it. If we've correctly followed the process, we can confidently state that 'We made the best possible choice given our alternatives, the available information, future uncertainties, and the things we can control. ' That's contrary to conventional thinking, which confuses a good decision with a good outcome. Most will say, 'We cannot know how good a decision is until we've seen the results. " That makes no sense in a world of uncertainty and unforeseeable events that decision makers cannot control. A good decision, for example, might be undermined by poor implementation. Or events on the far side of the world may foil a decision maker's best-made plans. The reverse is also true: a poor-quality decision may have a good outcome thanks to good luck. Imagine someone driving home after too many drinks. Does the fact that he arrived home without causing an accident make his decision to get behind the wheel a good one.
Categories: changethis
