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Blog / ChangeThis
Ending Pay Secrecy: Why Keeping Salaries a Secret Leads to Disengagement and Decreased Performance, and How Revealing Pay Information Can Actually Increase Performance
By David Burkus
"Do you know how your pay compares to your peers? Probably not. You probably don't talk about it much. Most Americans are more comfortable talking about their sex lives than their salary lives. And most employers are happy to keep that secrecy going. According to a 2011 report from the Institute for Women's Policy Research, about half of American workers said that discussing salary information is either discouraged or outright prohibited. The assumed reason behind these prohibitions is that if everybody knew what everybody got paid, then all hell would break loose. There would be complaints. There would be arguments. There might even be a few people who quit. But what if secrecy is actually the reason for the strife, and what would happen if we removed that secrecy?"
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Reading Books Won't Future-Proof You. Here's What Will.
By Erika Andersen
"I know way too many senior people who think they're great leaders because they read lots of leadership books, or who think they're staying abreast of the changes in their industry because they're reading about those changes. Real learning is almost always at least somewhat uncomfortable. It's challenging. It's figuring out how to operate in new ways; questioning your assumptions; putting new ideas into practice. Real learning takes you out of the tried-and-true, and into that murky, disturbing land of I'm-not-very-good-at-this. And, I submit to you, that kind of learning is central to our success today."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Am I Authentic Yet?
By Karissa Thacker
"We humans love some words because we don't really know what they mean. Therefore, we can throw them around and project whatever we feel is important onto them. Two such ambiguous words that possess an aura of gravitas and perceived importance are authentic and leadership. I am hard-pressed to say one is thrown around more frequently or with more fervor than the other. Put the two words together and you have the term authentic leadership, which is then vague to the second power. If you listen carefully to the election chatter and everyday conversations, the only thing we know for sure about authentic leadership is that it is a good thing. This presidential election cycle we even have a new vague diagnosis: he or she has an authenticity problem. This lack of clarity does not serve aspiring authentic leaders. We need a pragmatic definition of authentic leadership that we can work with. That is my goal with this manifesto."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The New Way to Get Noticed
By Barbara Cave Henricks, Rusty Shelton
"In a sense, the new media environment feels like the Wild West. On television, many of today's highest rated programs are reality-based and feature families who do things like procreate excessively or become famous when their patriarch represents OJ Simpson in court. Twitter helped Paris Hilton become a household name after a sex tape first put her in the public eye. And what about the concept of going viral. Few of us can forget the moment in 2015 when frenzy erupted over whether a particular dress was blue and black or white and gold, a "story" that temporarily pushed aside substantive news. It's easy to be cynical, we get it. On the flip side, this new environment has given us access we wouldn't otherwise have to many of the world's most influential minds. From Reddit's 'Ask Me Anything' to the TED talks featured on YouTube, new media tools have helped create and given us access to an unprecedented number of experts. Further, they have whetted our collective appetite for more. Not only is there opportunity to create content and display it on the virtual billboard that exists online, but there is a chance to create a strategy for capturing even more value from your messages.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / New Releases
The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything
By Dylan Schleicher
Neil Pasricha provides nine secrets and a simple equation (Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything) to find happiness in life and work.
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Real Leadership: 9 Simple Practices for Leading and Living with Purpose
By Porchlight
John Addison has a down-home perspective on life, leadership, and business, and it all comes from his upbringing in a home down south.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / New Releases
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
By Dylan Schleicher
From three partners at Google Ventures, a step-by-step guide to going from problem to prototype in five days using the same method that led to Gmail, Google X, and Chrome.
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Be Bad First: Get Good at Things Fast to Stay Ready for the Future
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Erika Andersen teaches us how to become better learners to confront an age where information is expanding exponentially.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / News & Opinion
Jack Covert Selects and the Editor's Choice
By Dylan Schleicher
Explaining our transition from the Jack Covert Selects to the Editor's Choice review series.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / Book Giveaways
#AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur's Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness
By Porchlight
Gary Vaynerchuk is here to get you caught up on all things social media—and almost on all things period.
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