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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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Making Inclusive Design a Priority
By Annie Jean-Baptiste
As diversity and inclusion champion Joe Gerstandt reminds us, “If you do not intentionally, deliberately and proactively include, you will unintentionally exclude.” This phrase is often repeated at Google to remind our teams that merely wanting to do the right thing isn’t enough.
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The Problem of Work: The Promise and Perils of the Sharing Economy
By Juliet Schor
Technological innovation and cultural change have put a person-to-person economy, with its solution to the problem of work, within reach.
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Talking About Talking: The Art of Public Speaking In an Age of Disconnection
By John Bowe
"The idea of a nonprofit organization carrying the torch of an obscure, long-lost tradition emphasizing social and interpersonal skills seemed to bear upon every dour preoccupation I’ve ever nursed about modern life, capitalism, and technology."
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Four Urgent Global Crises: Pressing Problems Other than COVID We Need to Address
By Blair H. Sheppard
The things that worry us as individuals, it turns out, worry all of us as citizens of the world. Global problems are local problems and no different in North or South America, Europe, Asia, or Africa.
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Girls' Natural Advantage:Collaborative Problem-Solving and the Future of Work
By Marisa Porges
Our girls have the advantage at a skill that will become ever more important moving forward. This is why collaboration is an ideal talent to promote when girls are young— so they recognize the importance of this skill and can effectively tap into it as adults, ensuring it becomes their lasting advantage no matter where they find themselves.
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The Double X Economy: Why Women’s Economic Exclusion is a Bigger Deal Than You May Think
By Linda Scott
Despite accounting for half the species, half the national income, and half the food supply, women are nevertheless treated as bit players by economists and policy makers. […] The opportunity cost of excluding the Double X Economy is always steep.
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Black Fatigue: An Introduction
By Mary-Frances Winters
The history of white supremacist, racist systems have led to Black intergenerational fatigue. The impact of Black fatigue is not only on Blacks but also on society. The racist system is not just literally killing Black people; it is tearing the whole nation apart.
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Shareholder Value as Yesterday’s Idea
By Rebecca Henderson
Markets only create genuine freedom of opportunity if everyone has the chance to play. When unchecked markets leave too many people too far behind, they destroy the freedom of opportunity that is fundamental to their own legitimacy.
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American Aristocracy
By Nicholas D Kristof, Sheryl Wudunn
Researchers have found that … in countries around the world, the accumulation of wealth also often leads to accumulation of political power that is then harnessed to multiply that wealth. Indeed, that’s what we’re seeing in America.
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The Declaration of Independence
By Porchlight
The primary author of the Declaration of Independence was Thomas Jefferson. For all the high ideals he provided the document and our country, he was also, like the majority of signatories to the Declaration, a slave owner. There were also ardent abolitionists in the group that signed the document, but they were outnumbered. It is representative of the contradiction and conflict between America’s original sin and its original promise that still courses through our lives and politics today.
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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.