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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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The Working Mother's Manifesto: This is How We Do It
By Carol Evans
Carol Evans encourages working mothers (and fathers) to ask their organizations for what they need to attain a healthy balance between work and family.
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Non-Geeks are Not Morons: The Change Function Model for Adopting Technology
By Porchlight
Pip Coburn uses his Change Function model to contend that new technology should be inspired by the users' practical needs, not only the technologists' lofty vision. Check out a podcast with Pip here.
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Strategy and the Fat Smoker
By David Maister
David Maister offers advice on how to fight strategic flab and make change happen by encouraging a diet of good habits and short-term goals.
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The Rewritten Rules of Management
By Porchlight
In this hard-charging manifesto, Tom Ehrenfeld directs our attention to Bill Swanson's act of plagiarism and asserts that by letting Swanson get by with a slap on the wrist is like letting the Enron folks off with a small fine and a few hours of community service.
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Owner's Guide to Difficulties
By Porchlight
When you feel the tension building in that space between your shoulder blades, or you lay in bed at night unable to stop that film replaying all the days stresses, use Peter Albert's techniques for handling all life's difficulties.
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The Eyeball Artisan
By Chris Ballard
Sports Illustrated columnist Chris Ballard offers an inspiring story of an unusual man who loves an unusual job. This excerpt from Ballard's book, The Butterfly Hunter, is certain to ignite your search to find your true calling.
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Management Advice: Which 90% is Crap?
By Bob Sutton
The way business advice is sold today makes it difficult to cull the good from the bad. With refreshing candidness, Bob Sutton shows how to divine diamonds from dust with these guidelines.
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Crafter's Manifesto
By Porchlight
Ulla-Maaria Mutanen explores the increasing popularity of crafting in this celebratory call-to-arms to everyone who enjoys getting their hands dirty once in awhile.
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Killer Instinct
By Porchlight
Best selling thriller novelist, Joseph Finder, introduces us to a dynamic (though fictional) sales expert, Jason Steadman, to illustrate key techniques for selling with killer instinct.
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Citizen Innovator
By Eric Von Hippel
Who knows the most about a product? The creator or the user? Take, for example, surfboards. There is a whole population of surfers whose everyday focus is to maximize their experience in taking a wave. The best experience is found using the best board. Thus, the experts are the users. Von Hippel shows us that across many industries, information technology especially, users are the best minds to influence change and advancement. User innovation benefits all and in his manifesto, Von Hippel shows us why. This manifesto has been adapted from the first chapter of Democratizing Innovation.
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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.