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Blog / ChangeThis
Success In 5 Easy Lessons
By G. Richard Shell
"As a senior faculty member at the Wharton School of Business, I am best known for my work in negotiation, persuasion, and interpersonal influence. [… ] Given what I do now, most people are surprised to learn that I did not start my my academic career until I was thirty-seven and spent most of my twenties unemployed, much of the time deeply uncertain about who I was and what I wanted to do. But I count those years as the most important of my life. It was during that intense period of living with failure that I gained my first insights into the true meaning of success."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Passion Conversation: A Guide for Falling Madly in Love with the People your Business Serves
By Porchlight
"Passion fuels word-of-mouth conversations and excitement. Our passions make us happy and let us know that life is worth living. They motivate us to do remarkable things. When we are passionate about someone, we really do talk about that person all the time. We're eager and excited to share the tiniest details. Spend just a few minutes around a new parent and you'll see what we mean. Passion is not something you own; it's something you pass forward. So if you take the time to understand your own unique passion conversation—and yes, we believe everyone has them—as well as the ones that excite those you serve, something amazing will happen."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
What Are We Waiting for? (Learning to Be Present In an Increasingly Noisy World)
By Jeff Goins
"For each of us, there are unique, everyday distractions that call us away from being here now. The temptation to linger in the past or to hope for a better future. The alluring eyes of a coworker who appreciates you more than your spouse does. And every time we are lulled away from our lives and distanced from the moment, we lose something of ourselves and our purpose. And we wonder why the abundant life seems so evasive, so distant. Like something just beyond our reach, it seems to taunt us. And we may eventually despair of ever finding it. In frustration, as a last resort, we may turn to an old but familiar lesson: one of letting go. Of looking beyond personal ambition and replacing it with something better. The slow growth that happens when we surrender to what all these delays and setbacks are really trying to teach us. So it seems the antidote to our restlessness is not necessarily another adventure or experience of a lifetime, but a deep abiding in where we are now. How does this happen.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Talent: Raid It, Own It, Set It Free!
By Orly Lobel
"In a prophetic speech at a 1943 assembly, Winston Churchill predicted that 'the empires of the future will be empires of the mind. ' The future is now: The knowledge economy is here. Gone are the days when competitive advantage came from 'real' assets. It's human assets that give companies an edge. Skill, creativity, and smarts are the modern ingredients of success. Talent has become the most valuable asset for a company and talent is scarce. There is a scientist drought. There is an engineer drought. A recent McKinsey Global Institute report finds that despite unemployment rates being high, a third of American companies have positions that remain open for extended periods because the right people are hard to find. The best and the brightest are in fierce demand, and we fight over them like we fight over no other asset. This fight, the talent war, is only projected to become more intense. An American Society for Training and Development report predicts that by 2015, 76% of U. S. jobs will require highly-skilled workers.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / Interviews
Thinker in Residence: G. Richard Shell on Business and Books
By Sally Haldorson
In our final Thinker in Residence installment with G. Richard Shell, author of Springboard, we asked Dr. Shell to share with us the business question that most inspires his work and what books have most influenced him.
Categories: interviews
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Blog / Interviews
Thinker in Residence: A Q&A with G. Richard Shell
By Sally Haldorson
Happiness is fascinating. It is both one of the simplest things in life and one of the most complicated things to write about. ~G.
Categories: interviews
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Blog / Interviews
Thinker in Residence: G. Richard Shell
By Sally Haldorson
G. Richard Shell is the Thomas Gerrity Professor of Legal Studies, Business Ethics, and Management and the Chair of the Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1986. He also led the School’s most recent innovation process to completely redesign its MBA program.
Categories: interviews
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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch: September 2013
By Porchlight
Is it really almost September? I feel like it was just yesterday that I was holding a flickering sparkler in one hand while sipping from a perspiring brown bottle of New Glarus. Well it's true; summer really is almost over.
Categories: new-releases, publishing-industry
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Blog / Staff Picks
Saatchi & Saatchi: A Love Affair
Book Review by Porchlight
Love. It’s what smart companies want from their customers, followers, and fans. Many companies successfully establish their brands, but don’t take the extra steps to earn love from their audiences.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / News & Opinion
A New KnowledgeBlocks Giveaway!
By Sally Haldorson
We are giving away 20 copies of Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success by G. Richard Shell over on KnowledgeBlocks. Just enter for your chance to win.
Categories: news-opinion
