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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Work Simply: Embracing the Power of Your Personal Productivity Style by Carson Tate
By Porchlight
Carson Tate’s mission in life is also to help us get out from underneath it all, backed by the latest cognitive science.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
The Internet Is Not the Answer by Andrew Keen
By Porchlight
Andrew Keen explores the economic and cultural pitfalls of the Internet.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / Staff Picks
Well-Designed by Jon Kolko
Book Review by Blyth Meier
Jon Kolko’s new offering from Harvard Business Press aims to help conceive, design, and produce better products based on a design process that puts users first.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / News & Opinion
The 2014 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year and Jack Covert Awards
By Porchlight
We went to NYC last week to announce the 2014 Business Book of the Year and inaugural Jack Covert Award.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / Excerpts
The Best Place to Work
By Porchlight
Ron Friedman on "The Defining Feature of Renowned Artists, Star Athletes, and Successful Organizations."
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Book Giveaways
The Self-Made Billionaire Effect by John Sviokla & Mitch Cohen
By Porchlight
John Sviokla and Mitch Cohen have a new secret for instilling innovation in existing companies—their employees.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / New Releases
The Sef-Made Billionaire Effect
By Porchlight
What if Steve Jobs and Steve Case’s talent for value creation had been recognized and harnessed by their former bosses?
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / ChangeThis
Everything We Know About Great Workplaces is Wrong
By Porchlight
"When we think about extraordinary workplaces, we tend to think of the billion dollar companies at the top of Fortune magazine's annual list. We picture a sprawling campus, rich with generous amenities; a utopian destination where success is constant, collaborations are seamless, and employee happiness abounds. But as it turns out, many of the assumptions these images promote mislead us about what it means to create an outstanding workplace. In recent years, scientists in a variety of fields have begun investigating the conditions that allow people to work more successfully. What they've discovered is that in an astonishing number of cases, not only are the factors that contribute to creating a great workplace not obvious—they are surprisingly counterintuitive. Here are five great workplace myths we routinely get wrong."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
How To Create Eternal Life In Any Business
By Noah Fleming
"What if I told you that there is a gold mine of new business that you're probably missing out on? And what if I told you that these will be the easiest to find, most loyal, and highest grossing customers you will ever find? These are what I call, your evergreen customers. Your evergreen customers are the ones you already have. They are the ones who can provide eternal life, growth, and regeneration for your business. In this day and age, too many companies ignore their evergreen customers and are squandering this most precious resource in the endless pursuit of new customers. Of course the goal of every company is to grow. I'd be crazy to suggest otherwise. But in actuality, it's the loyal customers that are the beating heart of a great business, and it's the companies that ignore this, by placing greater emphasis on customer acquisition, will most likely to end up stalling their own growth."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Get Rid of the Jerks
By Porchlight
"What's the best way to have a better life? Just do this one thing: Get rid of the jerks. Yes, that's right, get rid of those people who are bothering you, the people who hold you back, the ones who don't appreciate you, the ones who complain all the time, the ones who are always criticizing you, the ones who drive you nuts, the ones who just tolerate you. In short, the jerks. I have had them in my life. Too many of them. Consulting clients who always pushed for a price cut and were never satisfied with the work I had done for them. Faculty colleagues who spent more time spreading rumors than doing research. Gossipers who would suck me in to conversations berating others. I often didn't know they were jerks because it was so comfortable being with them. I just figured everyone was like that. It took me a while to learn otherwise."
Categories: changethis