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Learning to View Your Customers as a Powerful Tribe
By Ed Welch
"As a business it's tempting to think of a 'tribe' as a 'customer base.' That's wrong. People aren't part of a tribe simply because they buy a product or service. What qualifies them as a tribe are their connections. Tribes of customers are connected to an idea, each other, products, services, employees, etc.—creating a network of connections to the business as a whole."
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Blog / ChangeThis
Self, and Importance. A Call to Reflection and Action
By Scott Ballum
"When we align ourselves with the opinions of others without examination, we are robbing ourselves of the opportunity to analyze our own preferences and desires, to determine our own solutions. We miss the chance to review the criteria others are utilizing, to question their biases and seek our own inspiration. In stunting the development of our own individual perspectives and initiatives, we trap ourselves in lives that appear to be predestined, and deny the possibility of realizing our personal potential."
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Blog / ChangeThis
Powerful Solving: In the Foundation of Innovation
By Matthew N Battle
"In order to be powerful, you need to deliver as much force, covering as much distance, in the shortest time possible. Consequently, given a force, if you want to improve the power you need to apply the force over a greater range OR decrease the time needed! Let's now make an analogy in the cognitive world. What is the force analogy? Force is the origin of the move in the mechanical world. In the cognitive world, the move is initiated by your ideas. So: F = Ideas Now, let's look at the path."
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Blog / News & Opinion
ChangeThis: Issue 55
By 800-CEO-READ
The 55th issue of ChangeThis has been published for your perusal and reading pleasure. Excerpts and links below. ::::: Live the Juggle Life by Ian Sanders "In this scrambled up world of work there are no rules and few walls.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Largest Gathering of 100 Best Authors West of the Mississippi
By 800-CEO-READ
Last week Todd and I hosted a 100 Best event at Stanford. This was the largest gathering to date of 100 Best authors west of the Mississippi River! Joining us were Jeffrey Pfeffer and Bob Sutton, authors of The Knowing-Doing Gap; Chip Heath, with Made to Stick; and Randy Komisar, with The Monk and Riddle.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
The 100 Best: an Interview with Strat Sherman of Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will
By 800-CEO-READ
As I mentioned yesterday, we're posting a number of interviews with the authors of books in The 100 Best. Today's interview is with Strat Sherman, co-author of Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will. This was the first book to write on the success of GE in the Jack Welch era.
Categories: news-opinion
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Twitter Honesty on The 100 Best
By 800-CEO-READ
rwartick: 100 Best Business Books of All Time: http://is. gd/jaQL Is it sad that the only one I've finished was written by Dr. Seuss?
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Twitter!
By 800-CEO-READ
Dear reader, If you're on twitter, we'd love to see you there. You can find us @800ceoread. com.
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The first of the podcasts with authors in The 100 Best
By 800-CEO-READ
This last week has been a bit of a whirlwind here! Much is going on with The 100 Best. Lots of folks are talking about it and tweeting about it.
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Blogging From O'Reilly Tools of Change
By 800-CEO-READ
I am in NYC for the next two days at the O'Reilly Tools of Change Conference. I am going to post updates on the author blog and on my twitter account.
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