Uncategorized Posts
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Blog / Book Giveaways
All the Leader You Can Be: The Science of Achieving Extraordinary Executive Presence
By Porchlight
Suzanne Bates and her team at Bates communications reveal the qualities you need to develop to be all the leader you can be.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / News & Opinion
Andrew S. Grove: 1936 - 2016
By Porchlight
Even the paranoid pass from the Earth someday. And, this week, we lost Andrew S. Grove.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Excerpts
Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy—And How to Make Them Work for You
By Porchlight
Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall Van Alstyne, and Sangeet Paul Choudary explain how the platform revolution is transforming the world as we know it and the work we do & and are able to do—along the way.
Categories: excerpts, narrative-biography
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Blog / Editor's Choice
An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
Book Review by Porchlight
Developmental psychologists Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey show us how to build development organizations that bring our workers out of hiding.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / News & Opinion
A Donation for Literacy and Creative Thinking
By Porchlight
J.P. Morgan and 800-CEO-READ have donated a portion of the sales from the J.P. Morgan Holiday Reading List to charities that align with the program’s mission.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / New Releases
Mastering the New Media Landscape: Embrace the Micromedia Mindset
By Porchlight
Veteran public relations and marketing professionals Barbara Cave Henricks and Rusty Shelton provide the roadmap to getting attention in this evolved media landscape.
Categories: new-releases, publishing-industry
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Blog / Book Giveaways
From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives
By Porchlight
Jeffrey E. Garten has penned a book about the history of globalization that is perfect for our times.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Under New Management: How Leading Organizations Are Upending Business as Usual
Book Review by Porchlight
David Burkus provides us with a great list of seemingly heretical ideas to make out businesses more efficient.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / ChangeThis
Am I Authentic Yet?
By Karissa Thacker
"We humans love some words because we don't really know what they mean. Therefore, we can throw them around and project whatever we feel is important onto them. Two such ambiguous words that possess an aura of gravitas and perceived importance are authentic and leadership. I am hard-pressed to say one is thrown around more frequently or with more fervor than the other. Put the two words together and you have the term authentic leadership, which is then vague to the second power. If you listen carefully to the election chatter and everyday conversations, the only thing we know for sure about authentic leadership is that it is a good thing. This presidential election cycle we even have a new vague diagnosis: he or she has an authenticity problem. This lack of clarity does not serve aspiring authentic leaders. We need a pragmatic definition of authentic leadership that we can work with. That is my goal with this manifesto."
Categories: changethis
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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