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Blog / ChangeThis
Change How You Change: 7 Insights for Faster Positive Habit Formation
By Porchlight
"I'd been reading about a Tibetan Buddhist mind training technique called Lojong, or slogan practice, a set of fifty-nine one line aphorisms you recite as mental antidotes to undesired mental habits. Hmm, I thought, I wonder if his kind of practice could be useful for my clients. But I found the slogans so obscure that I didn't think they could be applied, so I abandoned the idea. Apparently the concept was still rolling around in my head when one day I was working with a bust executive who was trying to learn how to get great performance from his employees without micromanaging. I was yammering on and he looked at me and said. 'I'm busy. I need it boiled down to something simple I can remember.' Without thinking, I replied, 'I'm going to give you a slogan. Every time you talk to an employee, say to yourself: Give what and why, not how. And so he did"
Categories: changethis
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Blog / Excerpts
Win At Losing: How Our Biggest Setbacks Can Lead To Our Greatest Gains
By Porchlight
Sam Weinman explains why many who emerge from the depths of a failed business tend to be better off from the experience.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Excerpts
Swiped: How to Protect Yourself in a World Full of Scammers, Phishers, and Identity Thieves
By Porchlight
In Chapter 7 of his new book on protecting yourself from identity theft, Adam Levin describes Ann Cavoukian’s seven principles of privacy by design
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Book Giveaways
The 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards: Big Ideas & New Perspectives
By Porchlight
Need a new idea or perspective for 2017? These five books offer up the best of 2016.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream
Book Review by Porchlight
Futurist Amy Webb teaches us to decipher the signals popping up on the fringes of culture and society and what they mean for our industries and organizations.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / News & Opinion
Inside the Longlist: Narrative & Biography
By Porchlight
The most influential and transformative lessons are those we discover on our own, in real world, real life stories and examples rather than in lists of steps or habits.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / New Releases
Superconsumers: A Simple, Speedy, and Sustainable Path to Superior Growth
By Porchlight
Eddie Yoon talks about the superconsumer phenomenon and tells us how to go about "Making Your Best Customers Better."
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Book Giveaways
The 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards: Narrative & Biography
By Porchlight
This week, we are giving away the five best narratives and biographies of 2016.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Book Review by Porchlight
Michael Lewis has delivered what may be his best book yet, one he seems predestined to have written—if only that were a logical possibility.
Categories: editors-choice, narrative-biography
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Blog / News & Opinion
Inside the Longlist: Current Events & Public Affairs
By Porchlight
The reality underlying each of our choices for the best Current Events & Public Affairs book of the year is that good business practices can be a balm to society, while bad business practices act as a barrier to progress.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry, the-company