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Blog / Editor's Choice
Lead Right for Your Company's Type: How to Connect Your Culture with Your Customer Promise
Book Review by Porchlight
William Schneider can help you ensure that your enterprise is a living system that is “continually adapting, learning, and developing.”
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / ChangeThis
Doing Good Work and Doing Good
By Porchlight
"From childhood I have had it drummed into me by my parents, my life experiences, and my own work: You can do good work and you can do good. I've learned that life is not a zero-sum game that requires that we take everything and leave nothing in order to succeed. I subscribe to the concept that through innovation and creativity we can all add to the global pool of resources. In fact, Peter Diamandis authored one of my favorite quotes in Abundance, 'Make more pies.' I strongly believe that in doing so, one can have a positive impact on the world and make a solid profit while doing so."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Art of Inclusion: Why Service Beats Selfies When it Comes to Business
By Cara Alwill Leyba
"Here's the thing about business. It's not about you. Or me. People create businesses to solve problems. To help their clients get from Point A to Point B. Whether that's helping save them from a toxic relationship, assisting them in designing their dream kitchen, or motivating them to lose fifty pounds, businesses exist to serve. And while many entrepreneurs are the face of their business, there's a thin veil between injecting some personality into your work, and completely overriding your services by being self-serving."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
How to Be Number One in Your Field
By Daniel Milstein
"You should have goals so big that you are uncomfortable telling your friends about them. Everybody has a goal and while you can't do everything (some people can't sing or draw or downhill ski) most of your dreams, like finding a job you love and making a living doing it—are realistic goals that you can attain. I believe you can do what you set your mind out to do."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
"Dangerous" Woman: Three Entrepreneurs Who Paved the Road of Women's Business Leadership
By Porchlight
"On 8 August 1959, the Saturday Evening Post published a sensationalized article about the female chief executive of Beech Aircraft titled 'Danger: Boss Lady at Work. ' In it, the 'Boss Lady,' Olive Ann Beech, was caricatured as autocratic and austere, insecure yet self-righteous, and the author warned readers—as the title suggested—to beware. Reportedly, more than one businessman had declared, 'I'm scared of that woman. ' But according to the article, Beech herself was undaunted. 'I never concerned myself with what people thought of me,' she stated. 'If I had, I'd have been pretty mousy. ' The idea that a 'boss lady' at work was dangerous tells us a great deal about the historical context in which female business executives led and the obstacles they faced in the mid-twentieth century. Alarms about a crisis in American masculinity were de rigueur in popular magazines in the 1950s, and social commentators were quick to connect the problem to women. One result was a pronounced current in American popular culture of the 1950s that endeavored to prop up men at the expense of women and to demonize women who in their success appeared to embody an assault on men.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Your Enterprise as Living System: Success Starts with Knowing the Kind of Business You're Really In
By Porchlight
"Profit and non-profit enterprises are living people systems. Embracing this belief (and its implications) will significantly change your leadership for the better. Customers, employees and leaders are not commodities and they are not separate from one another. They are different, but they are not separate. If you take away any one of the three—customers, employees, or leaders—you don't have an enterprise! Enterprises are started by people, led by people, operated by people, improved by people, perpetuated by people, dissolved by people. People create and provide value for people. People are the life of your enterprise. Customers, employees, and leaders are all that is alive in an enterprise and they are inextricably and vitally woven together. The promise that you make to your customer, your culture of employees, and your leadership approach are immutably intertwined."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / Book Giveaways
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
By Porchlight
Al Gore's new book exposes the reality of how humankind has aided in the destruction of our planet, along with groundbreaking information on what we can do now.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
Book Review by Porchlight
Ryan Holiday has given us a guide to making creative work that lasts—beginning with the creative process itself, through the positioning and marketing of it, to building a platform upon it.
Categories: editors-choice, narrative-biography
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups-Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000
By Porchlight
Jason Calacanis is as honest as he is abrasive, and that makes for a great and informative read about heading west to invest in Silicon Valley.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Designed Leadership
Book Review by Porchlight
Moura Quayle's new book give readers is a great history of design thinking, a glimpse of its future, and the tools we need to bring it about.
Categories: editors-choice
