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Blog / Book Giveaways
Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up
By Porchlight
One of the start-up world’s most in-demand executive coaches—hailed as the “CEO Whisperer” (Wired)—reveals why radical self-inquiry is critical to professional success and healthy relationships in all realms of life.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / ChangeThis
5 Things We Think We Know about Strategy—and Why We're Wrong
By Edward Morrison, Scott Hutcheson, Elizabeth Nilsen, Janyce Fadden, Nancy Franklin
"Strategic planning has always been an ineffective tool to lead an organization. Don't believe us? That's the finding of the consulting firm McKinsey, which posits that up to 70 percent of strategic plans fail. The venerable institution of strategic planning is long overdue for at least a major overhaul, if not outright replacement."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Rethinking Execution: The 'Salsa Scale' of Embedment
By Todd M. Warner
"Many organizations run good projects and develop good strategies, with lots of Gant charts, stakeholder engagement and communication plans; they deliver a solid technical output. They probably even have a 'Change Management Plan' that includes briefings and information sharing, but then the Project team is done: The technical solution has been provided, and this output is passed over the fence to Operational Teams. Whatever happens next is not their concern; they have delivered a good 'answer,' even though most Operational Teams never asked the question. Herein lies the problem with execution, and the need to rethink embedment."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The New Era of Innovation
By Chris Duffey
"100 percent of jobs, 100 percent of industries, and 100 percent of professions will be affected by Artificial Intelligence in the next five to ten years, By 2020, companies using AI will take 1. 2 trillion from competitors who don't. Every day, we see or hear another mind-boggling statement about the impact Artificial Intelligence will have on the future. As consequential as these statements are, the truth is that nobody can predict just how profound this emerging technology will be. For example, just look at Amazon. No one could have foreseen that what started out as an online store could have grown to be one of the world's most powerful and valuable companies in the history of the earth, or more specifically, how the "Amazon Effect" would grow a supporting ecosystem comprised of manufactures, logics, and even suppliers like the cardboard box industry—all of which have greatly benefited from Amazon shipments. What we can be certain of is because of new emerging technology like AI, the rate of change will only increase.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Become the Leader You Would Follow
By Scott Jeffrey Miller
"Leadership isn't always rewarding. It can feel like a bottomless pit of problem solving and adult-sitting. Leadership is exhausting, repetitive, and requires a constant stretch of your emotional and intellectual skills. It demands an 'always on' mentality, as you're expected to have all the right answers and make all the right decisions, often on the fly. But it doesn't mean leadership isn't important; on the contrary, often the things we struggle with yield the biggest return. It's okay if you admit that leadership can be hard and unenjoyable, because the benefits of being successful at it can be life-changing."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Want to Be a Great Leader? Hit the Pause Button
By Sara Canaday
"Today's leaders are being asked to both do more AND think more. Is that even possible? I'm a fan of multi-tasking but this seems unreasonable. Expecting leaders to succeed in the context of a constant act-more, think-more, produce-more world is self-defeating, at best. At worst, it could be disastrous for our projects, for our teams, and for our health. So, how do we keep pace and, at the same time, get better as leaders. We do so by questioning—even defying—conventional wisdom."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / Excerpts
The Gift of Struggle: Life-Changing Lessons About Leading
By 800-CEO-READ
Bobby Herrera, CEO of Populus Group, shares the very real parallels he found between climbing a mountain and putting a team together in business.
Categories: excerpts, narrative-biography
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Lean Out: The Truth About Women, Power, and the Workplace
By Porchlight
Lean Out offers contrarian, often humorous insights to this critical global dialogue and provides a pathway for both individuals and companies to promote a more inclusive workplace that benefits all employees.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
David Kaye's new book addresses how the internet has changed from a decentralized platform for free expression into a stream of propaganda, hate speech, and disinformation, and how to turn back the tide.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / Staff Picks
Tales of the City
Book Review by Emily Porter
Armistead Maupin's San Francisco series is, quite simply put, a masterpiece.
Categories: staff-picks, fiction
