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Stephen R. Covey, 1932 - 2012
By Porchlight
Stephen Covey's seminal book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, changed the business book landscape. It was a book that introduced us to the concept of paradigm shifts in our lives, and it shifted the paradigm of the entire industry. It has been translated into almost 40 languages and sold more than 25 million copies worldwide.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Resilience
By Porchlight
Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back by Andrew Zolli & Ann Marie Healy, Free Press, 336 pages, $26. 00, Hardcover, July 2012, ISBN 9781451683806 To some, the world seems much worse than it used to be. The economy, crime, and even weather are all indicators that the good old days were exactly that.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Attention All Passengers
By Porchlight
Attention All Passengers: The Airlines Dangerous Descent—And How to Reclaim Our Skies by William J. McGee, Harper, 368 pages, $26. 99, Hardcover, July 2012, ISBN 9780062088376 William McGee is an award-winning travel journalist who worked for seven years in the airline industry, is a FAA licensed aircraft dispatcher, served in the US Air Force Auxiliary, and was chosen in 2010 by the US secretary of transportation as the lone consumer advocate on the Future of Aviation Advisory Committee.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Pumpkin Plan
By Porchlight
The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field by Mike Michalowicz, Portfolio, 228 pages, $26. 95, Hardcover, July 2012, ISBN 9781591844884 Has the dream of owning your own business turned into a nightmare? That is where Mike Michalowicz was five years into his first business.
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Blog / News & Opinion
ChangeThis: Issue 96
By Porchlight
The Secret to Self-Discipline By Rory Vaden “Today’s work environment has been dubbed everything from the Age of Distraction and the Age of Inattention . . .
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Blog / ChangeThis
How to Get Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level
By Porchlight
"The reality you face at work is that talent, results, and competence alone simply will not allow you to attain the success you deserve. It's time to stop being surprised by this, and instead take control of your professional future by applying the PVI model. The three steps in the PVI model are perception, visibility and influence. When used together, these three powerful principles will catapult you to the next level in your career and ensure future success. Through the PVI model, you will learn how to: Create the right image Increase your profile across the organization Exert influence by driving change and inspiring people Identify and recruit advocates who will speak up on your behalf Become a known, valued and desired commodity at your company
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Collaborative Organization
By Porchlight
The use of these new social and collaborative technologies and strategies are being deployed and implemented to solve many of these problems within the enterprise today. But, collaboration doesn't just benefit employees while they are at work, it also benefits them in their personal lives as well.
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Blog / ChangeThis
How to Spread Ideas: Think Like an Entrepreneur, Not Like a Crusader
By Porchlight
"While crusaders waste their time trying to impose their views on other people, entrepreneurs prefer to avoid conflict. Their goal is simply to make exchanges that are beneficial to all the parties involved. Individuals who want to improve the world and their own situation should definitely avoid the ways of the crusader. Hostility and conflicts tend to make collaboration impossible, and aggressiveness never leads to happiness. Anyone who wants to attain happiness and effectiveness must start by adopting an entrepreneurial attitude."
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Blog / ChangeThis
Can You Call It a Business If It Isn't Making Sales? Why So Many Business Owners Find Selling Difficult and What To Do About It.
By Porchlight
"Sales are only one ingredient in the marketing cake. Here's why I like this analogy: In a good cake, can you pinpoint the spot where flour ends and sugar starts? Is there any reason why your business shouldn't use this approach in marketing and sales? For the best brands, selling is not an isolated activity. It's beautifully integrated into all customer touch points. Your customer touch points can and should be mapped out, designed to be enjoyable, productive and attractive, and actively managed to maximize customer value. There are two simple questions you can ask yourself to accomplish this."
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The Secret to Self-Discipline
By Rory Vaden
"Today's work environment has been dubbed everything from the Age of Distraction and the Age of Inattention to The Multitasking Generation. The bottom line is this: regardless of your job title, we are all trying to accomplish increasingly more with increasingly less resources—whether those resources are money, time, focus, or energy. How can we achieve success—however you define it—given these constraints? I study successful people for a living, and I believe the answer can be boiled down to one word: self-discipline. It's not a breakthrough idea, and it's certainly not popular. But it's an old-school way of thinking that has unfortunately fallen out of vogue—and one that can yield measurable results when applied to the challenges of working in modern business."
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