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Blog / Book Giveaways
Design the Life You Love: A Step-By-Step Guide to Building a Meaningful Future
By Porchlight
Ayse Birsel helps us deconstruct our lives and design a more meaningful future.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Little Rice: Smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese Dream
By Dylan Schleicher
Clay Shirky dissects the state of globalization and its future by looking at the relationship of people to our smartphones, and the relationship of smartphones to the People's Republic of China.
Categories: jack-covert-selects, narrative-biography
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Blog / Staff Picks
Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum
Book Review by Aaron Schleicher
Kennedy Odede and Jessica Posner have written a tale of loss and hope, of compassion, education, and development, all wrapped up in a beautiful love story.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / ChangeThis
Give Not Until It Hurts, But Until It Feels Great
By Jenny Santi
"Through my work as a philanthropy advisor, I also had a chance to meet and speak privately with so many men and women from the social sector—social entrepreneurs, nonprofit professionals, young students and volunteers from different walks of life. Not everyone had a lot of money to give away. Many were giving their time, their talents, and a big part of their lives to something that mattered deeply to them, and again I was struck by what I observed. Every time they spoke about their work, regardless of how grim the issues they were addressing—whether it was cancer, global warming, or domestic abuse—and even when what they do for a living barely lets them make a living, they beamed with purpose and radiated with something that I can only call joy."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Organizational Sabotage: How to Spot It, and How to Stop It
By Robert M. Galford, Bob Frisch, Cary Greene
"Someone is sabotaging your organization. Not deliberately. But that doesn't matter. The damage that this person is causing is just as bad, and maybe even worse, than it would be if he or she planned it. Day by day, operating under the radar, this person is undermining the work of your company. In effect, he or she is putting sand in your machine. And if you don't identify and redirect that person's destructive behavior (and eliminate its cause), your company's gears may suddenly grind to a halt."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
A Big Idea: Big Ideas Don't Work (A Manifesto for Thinking Small)
By Craig Wilson
"What if big ideas don't work. Let's examine the premise. You own a business. That business provides goods and/or services. You try to distinguish those goods and/or services by some means. Your widget is the best, or cheapest, or most coveted because of its uniqueness, or you simply promote your widget with advertising that drowns out the competition. But in a world of near instant commoditization and destructive price promotion, the eventuality is that these approaches wane over time, and so begins the quest for the big idea that you believe is going to save your business. These big ideas typically come in the form of a new campaign tagline or logo, or a new way of talking about an old idea, or they come with a general makeover. Not necessarily lipstick on a pig, but the vast majority of re-branding efforts are simply a new way of looking at the same old thing. Rarely are they grounded in the principles of the organization. Rather, something else that feels all shiny and bright. With time, the veneer rubs off uncovering the fundamental truth that resides beneath.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Why Social Media Doesn't Create Social Intelligence
By Jeremie Kubicek
"They say that if we have more followers in our online, social media world, then we will be deemed more important. They say that the more people you know via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and the others, then the more influence you and I will have. They say that if we would connect more then we will be more connected. I say they are wrong. Who 'they' are is one issue. What 'they' say is another. Here is the most important fact: Social media doesn't create social intelligence. In fact, the more socially connected we are virtually online, the greater the risk of creating social dysfunction in our actual lives."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Future You: The Owner's Manual
By Bill Jensen
"Over the next few years, you will experience up to 100 transformative moments every year. 100 moments yearly that may or may not determine the future, but will most certainly reveal your future. Your future reveals itself only after you choose how you will face every disruption and opportunity that comes your way. What goes into your choices—your beliefs, unconscious biases, values and emotions—drives every situation as much as any disruption that is thrown at you. The future is personal."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Think Big, Act Bigger, and Do It Your Way—Because You Can!
By Jeffrey Hayzlett
"All my life people have been laying down rules or telling me what I need to do in order to be successful. I choose not to play their game. From my years as a successful small businessman in printing, marketing, and business development in South Dakota, through my time as the CMO of a Fortune 100 company, and into my current work as a speaker, bestselling author, host of a national TV show, and creator of the C-Suite Network, people have asked me one question more than any other: 'Jeff, how did you do it?' My answer is: 'I think big and act bigger.'"
Categories: changethis
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Blog / New Releases
Little Rice: Smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese Dream
By Dylan Schleicher
Clay Shirky spends a year in China chronicling China's (specifically cell phone maker Xiaomi's) attempt to be a tech originator—and what it means for the future course of globalization.
Categories: new-releases
