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Jack Covert Selects - Creative Confidence
By Porchlight
As children, we were encouraged to practice at everything—our multiplication tables, piano lessons, batting/catching/kicking/throwing. With practice, we were told, comes perfect (or at least proficiency).
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Dot Complicated
By Porchlight
I know people who swear that they would feel isolated if it weren’t for their smart phones and social media. And I know people who have become overwhelmed by the proliferation of devices and digital communication, and don’t welcome technology’s further incursion into their personal lives.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Junkyard Planet
By Porchlight
Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade by Adam Minter, Bloomsbury Press, 304 pages, $26. 00, Hardcover, November 2013, ISBN 9781608197910 You have probably wondered (and maybe even think you have a good idea of) what happens to your garbage after it leaves your home. But, have you ever wondered how much your garbage is worth?
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Blog / News & Opinion
New KB Giveaway! Adversaries into Allies by Bob Burg
By Sally Haldorson
Most business books are social science books. Sometimes they are given the "self help" label, and while business books are often about growing or evolving the self, they are more often about relationships, and how to work with other people to benefit both parties, whether it is manager-to-employee, marketer-to-client, or peer-to-peer. While social science is technically concerned with individual relationships in a society, it isn't too far of a reach to say that organizations are their own small society.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Two Birds in a Tree: Timeless Indian Wisdom for Business Leaders
By Sally Haldorson
Author Ram Nidumolu tells us upfront that Two Birds in a Tree: Timeless Indian Wisdom for Business Leaders is "only a road map" and that "you will have to create the guidebook yourself because this is your own unique journey. " Journey toward what? Toward Being.
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Blog / News & Opinion
ChangeThis: Issue 110
By Porchlight
Making Decisions like Tomorrow Depends on It by Tom Rath “No matter how healthy you are today, you can take specific actions to have more energy and live longer. Regardless of your age, you can make better choices in the moment. Small decisions—about how you eat, move, and sleep each day—count more than you think.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Thinker(s) in Residence: Business & Books with Brains On Fire
By Sally Haldorson
"Why can’t we lose the term NOT FOR PROFIT? Shouldn’t the people doing the most good in the world be wildly profitable? " Q: What is the one unanswered question about business you are most interested in answering?
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Blog / Interviews
Thinker(s) in Residence: Q&A with John Moore, Geno Church, and Robbin Phillips
By Sally Haldorson
Create a culture that knows how and who is going to respond and give your team permission to be human. Those are the companies who are shining in this new connected world.
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Blog / ChangeThis
INCREMENTALISM MUST DIE. NOW.
By Porchlight
"Our future is bright, but to capture the light we must embrace change. If we ignore or fail to embrace change, our future will be doomed. The outcome depends on how we address our most vile, insidious, and common enemy: incrementalism. There are massive opportunities out there, requiring BOLD responses, and one change that must be made now: WE MUST ERADICATE INCREMENTALISM. I want to work with you to change this."
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Making It Happen! Shifting Your Focus from Something Else to It
By Jones Loflin, Todd Musig
"It seizes some significant mental real estate and prevents you from being fully present in the moment. You attempt to suppress your thoughts about It with countless less important activities, but It simply won't leave. You hope to escape being a mental hostage to It when you are spending time with your family or friends, but still It hangs around, diminishing your ability to enjoy these moments, as well. Its presence, however, can most strongly be felt when you are trying to rest. You want to physically, emotionally, and mentally relax from the break-neck pace of the day, but thoughts of It keep robbing you of these much needed moments of sacred idleness. "What is this all powerful It," you ask. Simply put, It is your most Important Thing. " Those tasks, activities, goals, dreams, and plans that are neglected almost daily in the overwhelming world of working on "something else. " You don't consciously try to avoid It. You really want to work on It, whether it will take five minutes, five months, or five years, but you aren't for many reasons.
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