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Blog / ChangeThis
Reading Books Won't Future-Proof You. Here's What Will.
By Erika Andersen
"I know way too many senior people who think they're great leaders because they read lots of leadership books, or who think they're staying abreast of the changes in their industry because they're reading about those changes. Real learning is almost always at least somewhat uncomfortable. It's challenging. It's figuring out how to operate in new ways; questioning your assumptions; putting new ideas into practice. Real learning takes you out of the tried-and-true, and into that murky, disturbing land of I'm-not-very-good-at-this. And, I submit to you, that kind of learning is central to our success today."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Fast Coaching for Busy People: How to Coach in 10 Minutes or Less
By Porchlight
Sure, we'd all love to sit down for a nice 45 minute chat with everyone on the team if we could, but most of us don't even get to do that with the people we love in our life. At work, people are over-busy and overwhelmed. Meetings fill the day, and emails clog our inbox. And there's work to do as well. Don't despair. Coaching's something everyone can do, do quickly, and do in a way that will have a significant impact on performance and satisfaction. But to make it work for the time-crunched manager, you need to follow three principles.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Closing the Decision Quality Gap
By Carl Spetzler, Hannah Winter, Jennifer Meyer
"One of the virtues of DQ is that it allows us to know if we've made a good decision at the time we are making it. If we've correctly followed the process, we can confidently state that 'We made the best possible choice given our alternatives, the available information, future uncertainties, and the things we can control. ' That's contrary to conventional thinking, which confuses a good decision with a good outcome. Most will say, 'We cannot know how good a decision is until we've seen the results. " That makes no sense in a world of uncertainty and unforeseeable events that decision makers cannot control. A good decision, for example, might be undermined by poor implementation. Or events on the far side of the world may foil a decision maker's best-made plans. The reverse is also true: a poor-quality decision may have a good outcome thanks to good luck. Imagine someone driving home after too many drinks. Does the fact that he arrived home without causing an accident make his decision to get behind the wheel a good one.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Ending Pay Secrecy: Why Keeping Salaries a Secret Leads to Disengagement and Decreased Performance, and How Revealing Pay Information Can Actually Increase Performance
By David Burkus
"Do you know how your pay compares to your peers? Probably not. You probably don't talk about it much. Most Americans are more comfortable talking about their sex lives than their salary lives. And most employers are happy to keep that secrecy going. According to a 2011 report from the Institute for Women's Policy Research, about half of American workers said that discussing salary information is either discouraged or outright prohibited. The assumed reason behind these prohibitions is that if everybody knew what everybody got paid, then all hell would break loose. There would be complaints. There would be arguments. There might even be a few people who quit. But what if secrecy is actually the reason for the strife, and what would happen if we removed that secrecy?"
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The New Way to Get Noticed
By Barbara Cave Henricks, Rusty Shelton
"In a sense, the new media environment feels like the Wild West. On television, many of today's highest rated programs are reality-based and feature families who do things like procreate excessively or become famous when their patriarch represents OJ Simpson in court. Twitter helped Paris Hilton become a household name after a sex tape first put her in the public eye. And what about the concept of going viral. Few of us can forget the moment in 2015 when frenzy erupted over whether a particular dress was blue and black or white and gold, a "story" that temporarily pushed aside substantive news. It's easy to be cynical, we get it. On the flip side, this new environment has given us access we wouldn't otherwise have to many of the world's most influential minds. From Reddit's 'Ask Me Anything' to the TED talks featured on YouTube, new media tools have helped create and given us access to an unprecedented number of experts. Further, they have whetted our collective appetite for more. Not only is there opportunity to create content and display it on the virtual billboard that exists online, but there is a chance to create a strategy for capturing even more value from your messages.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / New Releases
The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything
By Porchlight
Neil Pasricha provides nine secrets and a simple equation (Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything) to find happiness in life and work.
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Real Leadership: 9 Simple Practices for Leading and Living with Purpose
By Porchlight
John Addison has a down-home perspective on life, leadership, and business, and it all comes from his upbringing in a home down south.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / New Releases
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
By Porchlight
From three partners at Google Ventures, a step-by-step guide to going from problem to prototype in five days using the same method that led to Gmail, Google X, and Chrome.
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Be Bad First: Get Good at Things Fast to Stay Ready for the Future
Book Review by Porchlight
Erika Andersen teaches us how to become better learners to confront an age where information is expanding exponentially.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / News & Opinion
Jack Covert Selects and the Editor's Choice
By Porchlight
Explaining our transition from the Jack Covert Selects to the Editor's Choice review series.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry, the-company
