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Blog / News & Opinion
Behind the List
By Porchlight
A look at the philanthropic good works being done by three of the authors on May’s Bestseller List.
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Do Less, Get More: How to Work Smart and Live Life Your Way
By Porchlight
Shaa Wasmund asks us to take a fundamental look at our lives and ask, if there was just one thing we could do today ... what would it be?
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Let the Elephants Run: Unlock Your Creativity and Change Everything
By Porchlight
David Usher not only tells us that creativity is a lot of hard work, he teaches us how to do the work.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / Excerpts
The ABCs of Success
By Porchlight
The best of motivational legend Bob Proctor's popular radio shows have been selected and edited into book form, from A to Z, in The ABCs of Success.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Interviews
Peter D. Kiernan on Business and Books
By Porchlight
We conclude our series with Peter D. Kiernan by asking our go-to questions about business and books and, for the first time, one additional follow up.
Categories: interviews
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Fix: A How-to Guide for Breaking Bad Habits That May Well Wind Up Killing Your Business.
By Porchlight
"The drugs that businesses are addicted to are discounts, coupons, BOGOs, off-price flyers, free-with-purchase offers. . . the list of ways to get that short-term sales high goes on. Too many good marketers are engaging in bad, self-defeating, costly behavior, with an over-reliance on incentives, and all the accompanying mass advertising required to promote them. If you have to continuously discount your product or service, or scream to the largest possible audience in order to get people to notice you, and to care enough about you to buy—then your business isn't healthy. Either you're offering goods or services people don't really want, or your brand is failing to demonstrate a compelling value proposition that meets consumer expectations for your category. Brand leaders across North America have become overly fixated on dealing with the symptoms of their pain, rather than addressing the core issues that cause them to have to resort to bribery just to get people to buy. And the proliferation of incentives and advertising has become so bad that many businesses are now overdosing on these short-term stimulants.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
How to Have it All: A Career, Kids, Free Time, and a Full Night's Sleep.
By Laura VanderKam
"I like to think I'm a good steward of my hours—I write and speak about time management for a living!—but in terms of having space for what matters to me, I'm far from the only one. The popular narrative about women, work, and life is full of what I call 'recitations of dark moments': these lamentations about missed soccer games, or waking up at 5:15 a.m. to do laundry. They imply that working motherhood requires becoming some maxed out mess. And yet the reality is that women with big careers have far more balanced lives than the popular narrative conveys. That's good news for anyone wondering if it's possible to have a career, kids, free time, and even a full night's sleep. It is possible to have it all, not just in theory, but in how we live our day-to-day lives."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
AIWATT and the Empty Boat
By Marshall Goldsmith
"I have a first principle for becoming the person you want to be. Follow it and it will dramatically shrink your daily volume of stress, conflict, unpleasant debate, and wasted time. It is phrased in the form of a question you should be asking yourself in any situation where you must choose to either engage or 'let it go.' Am I willing, at this time, to make the investment required to make a positive difference on this topic? It's a question that pops into my head so often each day that I've turned the first five words into an acronym, AIWATT (it rhymes with "say what"). Like the physician's principle, 'First, do no harm,' it doesn't require you to do anything, merely avoid doing something foolish."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Leadership Muscles For The New Multi-Polar World
By Porchlight
"Globalization until very recently meant Western companies exporting their products, leaders and ways of doing business around the world. That is now changing and today executives face a bewildering level of uncertainty in the multi-polar world that is fast emerging. If you are doing business in Africa, you are now likely to face significant competition from local players, as well as from Indian or Chinese companies that have emerged onto the global stage. The leadership teams of many multi-nationals were often literally a pale reflection of the international community, but slowly increasing diversity is evident in boardrooms and senior teams. But how do you deepen this diversity and make it work productively? ... A range of convergent evidence from neuroscience, behavioral genetics, values surveys, as well as our own research with thousands of leaders globally, identifies certain Cultural DNA themes for each of the world's main societies and their associated leadership implications."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
#notarule: winning at business and life by breaking rules that don't exist
By Jason Kotecki
"Blessed are the rule breakers. They shalt inherit the Future. We have always admired the great renegades of business, brave souls who dared to deny the status quo, defy the odds, and pioneer a new normal. Nicolas Tesla. Richard Branson. Tony Stark. One thing all great titans of industry have in common is this: they were able to identify rules that don't exist and had the courage to break them. Of course, there are plenty of rules that DO exist. If you commit fraud or neglect to pay taxes, I hope you look good in an orange jumpsuit. But the rules that DON'T exist greatly outnumber the ones that do. History is filled with examples of those who profited greatly by dispensing with so-called 'rules.'"
Categories: changethis
