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Blog / ChangeThis
AREA: A Research and Decision-Making Roadmap
By Cheryl Strauss Einhorn
"In developing AREA, I realized that the process does much more than provide a research and decision-making roadmap, it makes your work work for you. It heightens your awareness of the motivations and incentives of others. It helps you to avoid bias in your work and to engage with people and problems more mindfully. For while decision making is about ideas, ideas aren't enough; there is an important gap between having ideas and making good decisions about what to do with those ideas."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Thriving Artist Manifesto
By Jeff Goins
"For centuries, the myth of the starving artist has dominated our culture, seeping into the minds of creative people and stifling their pursuits. But the truth is that the world's most successful artists did not starve. In fact, they capitalized on the power of their creative strength. From graphic designers and writers to artists and business professionals, creatives already know that no one is born an artist. Business and art are not mutually exclusive pursuits. In fact, success in business and in life flow from a healthy exercise of creativity. Being creative isn't a disadvantage for success; rather, it is a powerful tool to be harnessed."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Say It Like You Mean It: And Other Ways to Inspire People Every Day
By Kristi Hedges
"The conversation is first. Then the spark. That's how it happens with all of us, and how it happened to me yet again. In this instance, it was actually hundreds of the same conversation, over and over. Until it hit me. We have some major misconceptions about what causes inspiration."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Finding Certainty In An Uncertain World
By Jeff Boss
"Of the 200 plus missions I went on as a Navy SEAL, not one went according to plan. Not one. Each mission demanded new information faster than before. A pivot. A new direction. Each mission warranted the collective awareness from each team member as to what that new purpose was so we could make decisions that served: 1) The mission 2) The team 3) Each other 4) Ourselves In order to execute at each level—optimally—we needed three things. We needed to be able to perform as individuals and as a team; we needed to be able to adapt to new information and change on the fly; and we needed to be able to lead—ourselves and each other—through uncertain situations by making decisions and sharing them with the group. Sound familiar? It should, because business is no different."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Are We There Yet?
By Kate Raworth
"Whether our economic airplane can keep on cruising or is about to stall mid-air, one thing is evident: it is currently heading for a destination that we do not want to reach, one that is degenerative and deeply divisive. If we reorient ourselves to the economic destination that we do want—an economy that is regenerative and distributive by design—then new questions about growth come to the fore. What might happen to GDP as we transition towards that destination? And what is GDP likely to do once we get there? It is not possible to predict definitively one way or the other whether GDP will go up or down in high-income countries as they create regenerative and distributive economies that engage the household, market, commons and state alike."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Change is Hard: A true story of diversity and inclusion.
By Jennifer Brown
"The effort required to manage aspects of our identity, culture, and work styles, and in many cases filter them out of our professional personas to 'fit in,' can take precious energy and focus away from our confidence, our contributions, and our careers. When we can work as fully ourselves, we win, and the business wins."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / Staff Picks
Hunch: Turn Your Everyday Insights Into the Next Big Thing
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
Bernadette Jiwa's new book is a reminder that we shouldn't surrender our human faculty to the advance of big data.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / Excerpts
No B.S. Guide to Powerful Presentations: The Ultimate No Holds Barred Plan to Sell Anything with Webinars, Online Media, Speeches, and Seminars
By Porchlight
Dan Kennedy and Dustin Mathews tell us why knowledge of your audience is the first step in creating an effective, powerful presentation.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Weird in a World That's Not
By Porchlight
Jennifer Romolini has written my favorite book at the moment—my favorite book of the year so far.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return
Book Review by Porchlight
Mihir Desai puts values back at the center of value creation by bringing the humanities to bear on finance, and finance to our understanding of our humanity.
Categories: editors-choice, narrative-biography
