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Blog / ChangeThis
How to Spread Ideas: Think Like an Entrepreneur, Not Like a Crusader
By Porchlight
"While crusaders waste their time trying to impose their views on other people, entrepreneurs prefer to avoid conflict. Their goal is simply to make exchanges that are beneficial to all the parties involved. Individuals who want to improve the world and their own situation should definitely avoid the ways of the crusader. Hostility and conflicts tend to make collaboration impossible, and aggressiveness never leads to happiness. Anyone who wants to attain happiness and effectiveness must start by adopting an entrepreneurial attitude."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Secret to Self-Discipline
By Rory Vaden
"Today's work environment has been dubbed everything from the Age of Distraction and the Age of Inattention to The Multitasking Generation. The bottom line is this: regardless of your job title, we are all trying to accomplish increasingly more with increasingly less resources—whether those resources are money, time, focus, or energy. How can we achieve success—however you define it—given these constraints? I study successful people for a living, and I believe the answer can be boiled down to one word: self-discipline. It's not a breakthrough idea, and it's certainly not popular. But it's an old-school way of thinking that has unfortunately fallen out of vogue—and one that can yield measurable results when applied to the challenges of working in modern business."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Way of Identity
By Porchlight
"The myth of personal freedom—the idea that you are at liberty to pick whatever path in life you want—is the unspoken agony of the modern person. It ignores the fact that life has order, and that order bears heavily upon your choices—on what makes sense to do with the time you have. The good news is that although you can't be anything you want to be, you have more potential than you know. The order in life that affects us all is contained in a code, the identity code. Much like our biological genetic code, our identity code is born into each of us, providing a complete map of how we, as human beings, are designed to function—of how we are supposed to live—when we are living according to who we are. Within the framework your identity provides, life's seeming boundaries melt away. Genuine freedom is yours. Crack your identity code and the contours of your life will shift. You will not only come out stronger, you will come out larger. Larger in heart, larger in influence, larger in your capacity to love and be loved.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / News & Opinion
Dare, Dream, Do
By Porchlight
There are many books about following your passion currently on the market, but few deeply address the idea of figuring out what one's passion might be. Even in my own conversations with people about what they want to do when they grow up, there's often uncertainty as to what that might be; even the direction it might be in. Whitney Johnson's new book, Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream does address this idea.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
PechaKucha Night!
By Porchlight
Thursday, July 26th PechaKucha Night Milwaukee #11 at Translator 415 E Menomonee Street, Milwaukee, WI 7PM $10 It's been awhile, but we're excited about the next PechaKucha Night in Milwaukee. We're hosting the next one right down the road from our office, at Translator. Here are some of the ideas on deck for the night: Education, beating cancer, juicing, mushroom hunting, militant creativity, and other enlightening topics will be presented from a diverse group of locals using the "20x20" format - 20 images that change every 20 seconds as the presenters share their stories.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Thinker in Residence: Michael Bungay Stanier
By Porchlight
Michael Bungay Stanier, author of the inspiring Do More Great Work and the social blockbuster End Malaria books, is now a featured Thinker in Residence over at KnowledgeBlocks. As part of his online residency, Michael and I talked about how to avoid busywork, what makes work great, and some important lessons he learned in undertaking a project like End Malaria. I've been interested in Michael's work for years, so this was a great chance to talk with him more about how he thinks and what he's working on next.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Every Leader is an Artist
By Porchlight
If your leadership style was a painting, could it be sold on the market? This might seem like an odd question, but Drs. Michael O'Malley and William Baker see leadership literally as an art, in a different medium.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Amazon's Best Books of the Year... So Far
By Porchlight
Amazon has been putting out a mid-year list of the best books for the past few years now, and released this (mid) year's list yesterday. The books in the Business & Leadership category are: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg, Random House The Tools: Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity by Phil Stutz & Barry Michels, Spiegel & Grau How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Big News from Seth Godin and Portfolio
By Porchlight
Seth Godin is returning to Portfolio! That is the big news. But the news is delightfully nuanced if you've been following Seth's progression since he left Portfolio in 2010 to start the Domino Project, which was as its name implied a project, and by almost all measures a successful one.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
New KnowledgeBlocks Explorations
By Sally Haldorson
Every month over on KnowledgeBlocks, we publish three business book explorations that examine a narrow subject within a broader business topic. Each begins with a featured book and then branches out, introducing you to author insights via podcast or interview, other related books, curated links, and brief analyses that will help you build your business knowledge. In June, members can access these Explorations: On the Being a Leader channel, you'll find an exploration titled "Beyond Pros and Cons" which features the book Judgment Calls: 12 Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams that got Them Right by Thomas Davenport and Brook Manville as a jumping off point for a deep dive into decision making.
Categories: news-opinion