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Blog / New Releases
The Sustainability Edge: How to Drive Top-Line Growth with Triple-Bottom-Line Thinking
By Porchlight
Suhas Apte and Jagdish N. Sheth explain why pursuing sustainability is the most effective way to gain a sustainable and consistent competitive advantage in business.
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Books for Living
Book Review by Porchlight
Will Schwalbe has written memoir of a life lived intimately with books and people, and a manifesto for all readers.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / Book Giveaways
The 2016 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Shortlist
By Porchlight
This week, we have a set of all the books on this year's 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards shortlist to give away.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
Book Review by Porchlight
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang delivers a timely message that rest needs to be deliberate, or our work will become debilitating
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / News & Opinion
Inside the Longlist: Big Ideas & New Perspectives
By Porchlight
Big ideas and new perspectives someday become, once enacted, status quo. It will take a while, but the first step is often powerful voices writing powerful books.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / ChangeThis
Curing the Temporary Dis-Ease of "Too Busy:" Strategies for Everyday Sanity
By Flip Brown
"How often do you hear or read these phrases? 'Sorry, I didn't get back to you – I've been so busy' or 'Things are just crazy busy at work.' This word 'busy' has become almost meaningless on one hand, and a catch-all excuse for not being truly present and engaged on the other. So how do we break out of this pattern? [...] Some would say this is modern life. It's just the way it is. Might as well learn to deal with it because the pace is out of your control. Besides, want to continue to receive a paycheck, right? I completely and sweetly disagree. There are ways to work from a sense of grounded being, of using the awareness of the moment to truly be in the moment, and to be fully engaged without being 'swept along' more often than not."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Fifty Percent Solution: One Religion's Global Impact on Entrepreneurial Women and How to Fix it
By Porchlight
"Although it has certainly become more common to see women launch their own companies, statistics clearly show that the creativity and entrepreneurial potential of women is a largely underexploited source of economic growth worldwide. This tendency for women to shrink from business and leadership opportunities is even more evident in Christian circles. In my opinion, this stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of scripture and what it teaches about women and how scripture says God sees them. It's well past time to set the record straight."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Necessity of Speed
By Joseph Folkman
"Life for a manager inside an organization has an unrelenting pace, with very few occasions when there is uninterrupted time. As a result, relationship building and development opportunities may fall by the wayside or become superficial due to the enormity of managerial time constraints. [...] The hectic pace alone increases the workload. Added to that, however, is the need to be a good collaborator and team player. The need for frequent interactions with others layers on additional tasks. And being a good boss means that people must have access to you. No, it is not all right to lock the office door to get all of your work done. Your influence is directly proportional to the quality and frequency of the connections you make through the day. So what can you do?"
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The 2017 Trust Outlook: A Look at the Landscape and Impact of Trust from The Boardroom to the Living Room
By David Horsager
"Right now in the U.S., a lack of trust is costing organizations billions of dollars each year. Regardless of size or industry, trust is a factor whose presence can lead to huge rewards but whose absence can mean devastating losses. This is the case both internally with employees and externally with customers because trust doesn't stay within the confines of one area of life or business. When corporate and business leaders understand and act on the importance of trust, how it is measured, and how it is built, they will reap tremendous benefits throughout their organizations. From bottom-line profits to employee retention, the business case is clear for this study, understanding, and building of trust. [...] Increased trust leads to better organizations and more trusted industries."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Change How You Change: 7 Insights for Faster Positive Habit Formation
By Porchlight
"I'd been reading about a Tibetan Buddhist mind training technique called Lojong, or slogan practice, a set of fifty-nine one line aphorisms you recite as mental antidotes to undesired mental habits. Hmm, I thought, I wonder if his kind of practice could be useful for my clients. But I found the slogans so obscure that I didn't think they could be applied, so I abandoned the idea. Apparently the concept was still rolling around in my head when one day I was working with a bust executive who was trying to learn how to get great performance from his employees without micromanaging. I was yammering on and he looked at me and said. 'I'm busy. I need it boiled down to something simple I can remember.' Without thinking, I replied, 'I'm going to give you a slogan. Every time you talk to an employee, say to yourself: Give what and why, not how. And so he did"
Categories: changethis
