Uncategorized Posts
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Blog / ChangeThis
Is Educating All Children Possible? (Based on the Status Quo, No.)
By Don Berg
"Linda Darling-Hammond, in the preface to her 1997 book The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Creating Schools That Work, wrote: 'Rigid and bureaucratic, [our current education system] was never designed to teach all children effectively, to teach learners in all their varieties, to attend to each child's particular mix of aptitudes and barriers to learning. Educating all children effectively is the mission of schools today, yet great numbers of children still have no reasonable opportunity to acquire the knowledge and abilities that will help them thrive in and contribute to today's society. ' As Linda Darling-Hammond points out in the quote above history has rendered judgments about the outcomes of our school system that do not reflect well on our record of success, assuming that the goal is to educate all our future citizens. Historically there have been (and remain) large segments of the United States population that have been educationally neglected despite the mandate to attend school.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Customer Room: Grow Your Business by Improving Customers' Lives
By Jeanne Bliss
"The Customer Room is the glue that unites a leadership team to focus and improve customers' lives to earn the right to growth. Building a customer room to step leaders and the organization through your customers' lives and walk in their shoes monthly, quarterly, and annually is one of the most robust actions you can take to align leaders and drive customer-driven action. It engages leaders personally in customers' lives and unites them to make decisions. It establishes an accountability forum that transcends most governance meetings on the subject, where projects are reported but engaging in understanding and improving customers' lives is not always built-in."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Perfection of the Paper Clip: Curious Tales of Invention, Genius, and Stationary Obsession
Book Review by Porchlight
James Ward weaves a narrative of invention, entrepreneurship, and sometimes empire through the everyday objects all around us.
Categories: staff-picks, narrative-biography
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Blog / Excerpts
Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
By Porchlight
Digital media innovator Jay Samit investigates disruption's lessons for the entrepreneur.
Categories: excerpts, narrative-biography
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Team Genius: The New Science of High-Performing Organizations
By Porchlight
Rich Karlgaard and Michael S. Malone, two of the best business journalists working today who had two of the best books of 2014 (we named Malone's the best), are back in 2015 with a joint effort.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / News & Opinion
800-CEO-READ Remembers Avin Mark Domnitz
By Sally Haldorson
"He always said he was a bookseller, first and foremost."
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Team Genius: The New Science of High-Performing Organizations
By Porchlight
Two of our favorite writers, Rich Karlgaard and Michael S. Malone, have teamed up to tell us (and teach us) about the genius of teams.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / Blog
June 2015 Business Book Bestsellers
By Porchlight
Our business book bestsellers for the month of June, 2015
Categories: the-company
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Blog / Excerpts
No One Ever Told Us That: Money and Life Lessons for Young Adults
By Porchlight
Acclaimed investment advisor and novelist John Spooner has a new book of practical advice for any young person just getting a start in life.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Book Giveaways
The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry
By Porchlight
John Warrillow's book will help you consider subscription models for your business and industry—whatever business or industry you're in.
Categories: giveaways