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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 Competitive Advantage of a Talent Rich Organization
By Scott Wintrip
"When it comes to success in business, one measure alone can accurately predict the future—wealth of talent. The more talent wealth an organization has, the more successful that organization will be. We've all experienced the benefits of organizations that are rich in talent. These are the companies we've come to love. When we say we love a company, what we're really saying is we love the work being done by the exceptional people in these organizations. People are the reason why Apple, Alphabet (Google), Amazon.com, and Starbucks remain some of the world's most admired companies. That's why having a wealth of talent is so important for all organizations. Talented employees who do outstanding work are the secret ingredients that make their companies great."
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How Algorithmic Thinking Can Help You Think Smarter
By Ali Almossawi
"What's fascinating is that Babylonian tablets from the second millennium BCE reveal that ancient Babylonians wrote down their procedures for determining things like, say, compound interest or the width and length of a cistern given its height and volume using algorithms. And all throughout history, and in a variety of domains, one can see approaches to problems that resemble what we refer to today as algorithms. That realization is intriguing for a number of reasons. One, it shows that this way of thinking about problems is rooted in ancient history. Two, it shows that it is domain-agnostic. And so, if one were to consider how best to make algorithms compelling to the broadest audience, it seems only natural to strive to not sell the field short, by describing it in its narrowest form, but to rather frame it as a tool for thinking, and a general-purpose one at that. One that can be applied to everyday problems that may have nothing at all to do with computers."
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The Spark and the Grind: Secrets of the World's Most Important Creators
By Erik Wahl
"Generating creativity takes an effort to make the initial spark. Thomas Edison once locked himself and five coworkers in his lab, where they labored for sixty hours without sleep to finish a working printing machine. This is the first truth you have to understand about creative endeavors: the spark comes to life at the expense of the grind. You will always run into problems when your efforts stop at the initial spark because rarely is the first spark the hottest and most potent. This was clearly true with Edison, who went on to win more than a thousand patents—including the light bulb—by working eighteen-hour days most of his life and famously finding '10,000 ways that won't work.'"
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The Employee Experience: Expectations Alignment and Contracts
By Tracy Maylett, Matthew Wride
"Some mistakenly confuse the Employee Experience (EX) with popular terms like Talent Management, Human Resources Development, or Employee Engagement. While EX is certainly related to those terms, it's not synonymous with them. Employee Experience is much broader in scope. The Employee Experience is the sum of perceptions employees have about their interactions with the organization in which they work, and an effective Employee Experience doesn't come to pass without aligned expectations."
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The Evolution of Customer Experience: From Consistency to Purpose
By Lior Arussy
"Customer Experience Design has gone through an evolution. This evolution can be best described through three generations of customer experience design: Consistent experiences Exceptional experiences Purposeful experiences We are now facing the third generation of customer experience. While consistency or emotional engagement will be sufficient for some situations, to create true customer relevance, companies must raise their aim when designing their experience. Customer experience has a new higher bar: purpose."
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How to Play With Fire: Equip Your Next Generation of Leaders to Deal with Anything
By Porchlight
"Let's put it on the table. The vast majority of organizations put too much leadership development emphasis on people who are already in traditional leadership roles. And not enough on the people who are the promise of the future. Imagine a fire. The hottest part of the flame is at the bottom, not the top. The top gets all the attention, but the bottom is where the real energy is. You want to be able to harness and use the energy of the people nearer the bottom for positive change. Don't snuff it out before it gets going."
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Powerful Tips for Overcoming Career Setbacks
By Bill Treasurer
"At some point, every leader is confronted with the reality that his or her leadership is seriously and substantially flawed. It is at this precise moment when a leader is faced with a choice: learn and grow or remain blindly loyal to ignorance. Every leader worth his or her salt will get a psychological kick in the ass eventually. It is a critical and inevitable part of the leadership experience. The untold truth about leadership is that leaders don't progress from good to great: they go from decidedly bad to pretty good. For the last two decades, I've worked with thousands of leaders across the globe. What follows is what they've taught me about how to overcome career setbacks and become a stronger leader in the process."
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How to Transcend the Transactional: Fuel a Lifelong Love Affair with Your Customers and Employees
By Tara-Nicholle Nelson
"Those of us who have taken on business as our life's work must now elevate our thinking. We must dare to be different. Let's stop fixating on which pic to post on which channel. Instead, dedicate yourself and your company to the endeavor of becoming an agent and facilitator of the transformations that people want to make in their lives. Let's talk about why and how."
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Enter Mindfulness: Money Advice in Uncertain Times
By Porchlight
"Pundits talk, bloggers blog, regulators write new rules, and financial firms create new products, while ordinary folks get more and more terrified and less and less ahead. Something in our approach to personal finance must shift. The search outside ourselves for answers is getting us nowhere. We're drowning in a salty sea of information without a single drop of clear common sense. What we need is not more financial intelligence. What we need is emotional intelligence. What we need is mindfulness."
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What If Everyone Brought Their Soul to Work?
By Porchlight
"What if we told you that profit can be the fuel that empowers you to do some serious good in the world? What would happen if we intentionally tore down those walls that separate us from going to work and giving back—where everyone was given permission to do good while they did their work? Think about how that would even affect your customers; how do you think they'd react if they were given the chance to see the kind of positive impact the dollars they spend can have on the world?"
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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.