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ChangeThis is our weekly series of essays from today's thought leaders that are meant to evoke conversation by bringing forth new and unique ideas.
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Seduced By Success: How the Best Companies Survive the 9 Traps of Winning
By Porchlight
Kodak and Sony reached the pinnacle of success within their markets, but were unable to react to changes within those markets. Herbold, retired COO of Microsoft Corporation, examined 44 successful companies to discover 3 common mistakes made by previously successful companies. The mistakes generate 9 traps which can be avoided as companies like Proctor & Gamble and Apple did by anticipating unarticulated customer needs.
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The Six Core Values of Innovation
By Porchlight
Innovation is the critical capability for all organizations trying to succeed in today's marketplace. But the case for innovation cannot be made solely on the basis of the economic value it creates for customers. It is equally important for enterprises and their leaders to embrace the 6 underlying core values of innovation as an integral element for a more vibrant future. This manifesto explores these values and explains how leaders can infuse them into their organizations in various ways.
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Drawings that Will Change Your Life
By Porchlight
Ralph Perrine believes drawing to be indispensable to good planning and good collaboration—the top two critical skills for success in life. Here, he shares twelve drawings to help bring focus and clarity to teams and any personal planning.
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Innovation: More than a New Year's Resolution
By Porchlight
Disasters create change. They particularly defined 2005, from the Asian Tsunami to Hurricane Katrina, provoking a drive for innovation, whose essential value is betterment. This manifesto aims to frame some essential truths that contribute to the quality of not only things, but also people and places. Disasters displace, but what is never displaced is the need to make life better. This need, whatever the scale and wherever the setting, is shared by all of us who possess the power to innovate.
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The Hard Reality of Semiglobalization...And How to Profit From It
By Pankaj Ghemawat
Pankaj Ghemawat disagrees that the world is flat, instead asserts that "the complex world of semiglobalization offers a far richer palette of business opportunities than a simple "borderless" world of uniformity and ubiquity." Here, he offers an antidote by addressing what still matters: distance and difference.
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Competing in a Flat World: The Perils and Promise of Global Supply Chains
By Porchlight
The recent recall of Mattel toys made in China is proof that modern supply chains are complex and require more than mastering work flow and logistics. Here, the authors offer that in a flat world, the world is our factory, and a new focus on networks, a balance between control and empowerment and optimizing value through integration.
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Change the Way You Change the World
By Porchlight
Using Habitat for Humanity as a dynamic example, authors of Forces for Good, Crutchfield and Grant, present this manifesto on what high-impact nonprofits do to achieve wide-scale social change. These methods are insightful for all organizations, including for-profits and individuals. You may just want to pick up a hammer and take a swing at changing the world.
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The RenGen Manifesto
By Patricia Martin
Patricia Martin brings her energy and enthusiasm to this inspiring manifesto which celebrates a new cultural trend: a renaissance generation that values creative and intellectual activity which will bring a rebirth to our current beige state of living.
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The Energy Crossroads: How Detroit and Washington Can Fuel the Future
By Vijay Vaitheeswaran
Vaitheeswaran, author of Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future, here asserts that within "the thorny geopolitical, environmental, and economic complications involved with cars and oil, America's federal energy policies do matter." He calls for a "market-minded" approach that offers a level playing field for entrepreneurs and innovators instead of the conventional and archaic.
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Build Your Brand in Bits and Bytes: Building Your Personal Brand Online
By William Arruda
Arruda and Dixson warn: you are being googled. Internet research is now a no-brainer in the hiring process, whether you are applying for a job or pitching your bid. So, how can you impress recruiters and clients when they perform this kind of reference check? The authors offer steps to making you digitally distinctive.
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The original idea behind ChangeThis came from Seth Godin, and was built in the summer of 2004 by Amit Gupta, Catherine Hickey, Noah Weiss, Phoebe Espiritu, and Michelle Sriwongtong. In the summer of 2005, ChangeThis was turned over to 800-CEO-READ. In addition to selling and writing about books, they kept ChangeThis up and running as a standalone website for 14 years. In 2019, 800-CEO-READ became Porchlight, and we pulled ChangeThis together with the rest of our editorial content under the website you see now. We remain committed to the high-design quality and independent spirit of the original team that brought ChangeThis into the world.