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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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Pinpointing the Pain to Lead Lightly
By Jody Michael
Pain hinders performance. So, if you want to play at the top of your game, if you want to be an outstanding leader, if you want to create even higher levels of success in your organization, then you have to do two things: One, stop the cycle of pain. Two, shift into a cycle of performance.
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The Emotional, Financial and Health Toll of Being the First and Only
By Jennifer R Farmer
Our community tends to celebrate when one of our own breaks through. But there is an underbelly associated with being the first. Have we even counted the costs? They include academic, emotional, health and physical costs.
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It's Not Too Late: Transitioning to a Low-Carbon Economy
By Porchlight
Sustainable technologies must overcome the initial hurdle of adoption and infrastructure in order to create the necessary change. Only then can they achieve lock-in to begin to reverse the underlying threat of climate change.
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Set Your RBGs: Really Big Goals for a Career You'll Love
By Fran Hauser
RBGs are super important and are key to helping you focus on actions that are going to help move your career forward and—most important—in the direction that’s right for you.
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The Opportunity to Govern: How the Supreme Court Is Reshaping America
By Ian Millhiser
As Congress grows less and less able to enact ordinary legislation, the Supreme Court is more and more likely to become the final word on questions of policy.
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Why DEI? A Personal and Historical Perspective
By Deanna Singh
People want to believe the American dream invites everyone to aim high, but the reality is that the mob awaited African Americans who dreamed too big. … Many of these instances of violence flared up against people like my great-great-grandfather, who committed no crime other than being industrious.
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The Challenge of Power
By Jeffrey Pfeffer
Many books and research studies that are ostensibly about power are fundamentally ambivalent about embracing techniques to make people more powerful. Many commentaries on power, while optimistic and uplifting and often quite popular, are, in their Panglossian views of human behavior and the social world, remarkably untethered from the empirical realities of social life.
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How Should I Pay My Interns? A Look at Compensation, Creativity, and Morality in Business Today
By Nir Bashan
Many new businesses and startups find themselves in a tricky position—trying to move forward without having the ability to pay someone for the help they so desperately need. And today more than ever, the need for specialty labor may mean the difference between success and failure. So what is any enterprise—big or small—to do?
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The Competitive Advantage of Flexible Work
By Brian Elliott, Sheela Subramanian, Helen Kupp
Because it has a positive effect on common business challenges, like recruiting and retention; because it leads to happier, less stressed, and more engaged employees; because of these things and more, flexible work, when done right, quite simply drives better business results.
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Culture and Courage: How to Shake Things Up While Adhering to Core Principles
By Reggie Fils-Aimé
No culture is perfect. And if you don’t evolve with emerging business conditions, your company and its culture will be left behind. The best senior leaders define the culture in their organization thoughtfully.
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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.