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8crTV
By Porchlight
We've been posting a bunch over at the 8cr YouTube site, featuring excerpts from our LeaveSmarter event series, Pecha Kucha Night Milwaukee, and interviews with folks who stop by our office. Tune in and watch vids from Mike Kanazawa, Charles Fishman, Doug Tatum, Leslie Crutchfield, Bill George, Faythe Levine, Tom Crawford, Corey Canfield, and many more. Heat up that tv dinner, settle in your office chair, and check out some live business thought.
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Big Boys of Business Have Books This Fall
By Porchlight
Hardy Green at BusinessWeek has a quick piece on their website about big names with business books in the fall. Call Me Ted by Ted Turner was the splash at BEA in June, which included a party hosted by Larry King. Richard Branson follows Losing My Virginity and Screw It, Let's Do It with Business Stripped Bare.
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Part III of Blog Hosted by: Tim Hiltabiddle, The Nice Guy Bill of Rights
By Porchlight
Welcome to blog post number three from Tim Hiltabiddle, co-author of Nice Guys Can Get the Corner Office. You can find the first post here and the second here. : : : : : : : The Nice Guy Bill of Rights It was a blustery day in November of 2004 when my friend Russ Edelman first came to me with the 'nice guy' idea.
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Part II of Blog Hosted by: Tim Hiltabiddle, What About Nice Gals?
By Porchlight
Welcome to blog post number two from Tim Hiltabiddle, co-author of Nice Guys Can Get the Corner Office. You can find the first post here. : : : : : : : What about Nice Gals?
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Necessary Revolution: Creating a Sustainable Future
By Peter Senge, Bryan Smith
"The Industrial Era is ending. Its extraordinary successes—advances in literacy, life expectancy, human rights, and technology—have propelled us headlong into a myriad of side effects: food and water shortages, cyclonic destruction, prolonged drought and rising sea levels. To delay acknowledging the need for lifestyle and business changes—'The Necessary Revolution'—risks our very survival. What only a couple of decades ago was still a vigorous scientific debate has become as close to a consensus as scientific communities ever achieve: human-induced climate change from greenhouse gases concentrating in the atmosphere has reached a threshold of significant social and economic impact—and we are only now at the start of experiencing the effects. Stabilizing atmospheric carbon dioxide will require a profound reversal: a 60–80% reduction in growing worldwide emissions in the next twenty years. This is the '80–20 Challenge,' and this manifesto presents inspiring, real-life examples of how this is starting to happen.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Gridlock Economy: The Tragedy of the Anticommons
By Michael Heller
"Private ownership usually creates wealth. But too much ownership has the opposite effect—it creates gridlock. When too many people own pieces of one thing, cooperation breaks down, wealth disappears . . . everybody loses. Gridlock is a free market paradox."
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Mini Sagas: Bite Sized Lessons For Life and Business
By Rajesh Setty
50 words is not a lot. Sometimes, though, you can say a lot in 50 words. Add a good picture to the background and you have a story in 50 words. In this photographic manifesto (the first in ChangeThis history) Rajesh Setty has compiled 15 mini sagas from his collection. Each 50 word story is packed with a lesson on life and/or business. Our hope is that you will enjoy these stories and it will inspire you to write your own mini saga on a topic of your interest. From Mini Sagas: "A mini saga is a story told in exactly 50 words—not 49 or 51 but in exactly 50 words. Benefit #1: Writing a mini saga expands your creativity. Constraints typically expand creativity or induce flight. When you have to put everything in 50 words, you have to 'leave behind' a lot. That's where the creative juices start flowing. Benefit #2: Writing a mini saga stretches your thinking. What will you write about. You have to think about topics that will fit in 50 words or squeeze them to fit in 50 words. That puts thinking on overdrive mode.
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ChangeThis: Issue 49
By Porchlight
The August issue of ChangeThis has been posted. This month, we have the author of business classic The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge, with an environmental treatise on sustainability and business. Manifesto coauthor Bryan Smith was one of four authors who worked with Senge on the book the manifesto was modeled after, The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World, released earlier this year by Doubleday.
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Uncovering Business Breakthroughs: Are you Tuned In or Tuned Out?
By David Meerman Scott
"We've developed the Tuned In Process to allow companies to create success again and again. We see these same principles at work in a wide range of successful product experiences, such as business-to-business technology products, fast food chains, and professional services firms. Anyone can use Tuned In to replicate the model for success. It works for well-known companies like Ford, Apple, and GE and those not-so-famous like GoPro and Zipcar. It works for realtors, doctors, ministers and even rock stars. With a Tuned In approach, your everyday activities can be transformed into those which create the kind of culture that builds market leaders."
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Blog / ChangeThis
Avoid Corporate Death: Nine Essential Elements Will Keep the Reaper From Your Company's Door
By Porchlight
"No company is created to fail. Yet the odds are stacked against corporations surviving more than a few decades. Many once-greats are dying a slow death, losing much of what made them superior. Others have expired quickly. And new research shows that many more are starting to atrophy as their leaders turn their focus to managing complexity—and away from leading for the future. A new, nine-element framework can help you diagnose your organization's health, and address the factors that increase corporate life expectancy."
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