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Blog / ChangeThis
THE FASCINATION FACTOR (and how you can use it to write books)
By Mark Levy
"One of the hats I wear is that of writing coach. I guide businesspeople in writing books. During a typical first session, my client isn't sure what their book will be about, but they take guesses. They tell me about what they think the marketplace wants, what they believe they can sell, and what might elevate them to guru status. They start tossing around premises. I stop them. Books indeed need readers, so thinking about audience is important. Books also help writers achieve career goals, so thinking strategically about how a book can advance one's business makes sense. But looking at those things too early leads to a bland book. Why?"
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Why the Future of Business Depends on the Young World Rising
By Rob Salkowitz
"More than half of the world's 6.8 billion people are under the age of 30, and most of them live in countries where the per-capita income is lower than $1000 per year. Meanwhile, projections show the average age of the United States, Europe, Russia, Japan and even China pushing dramatically upward, with declining numbers of young workers struggling to support mushrooming populations of elderly retirees. As the old centers of the global economy face aging workforces and declining fertility rates, the future increasingly depends on tapping into the energy and ideas of the rising Young World."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
DREAM, DARE, DO!
By Porchlight
"Everybody has dreams regarding work, relationships, health and personal development... But what does it take to go from Dream to Dare and, eventually, Do? What are the secrets of real and lasting change? You know exactly how it feels: you are frustrated, angry and unhappy. It's time to make that change. It's time to improve your relationships, start your own business, get that promotion, lose that weight, get those abs tuned, stop smoking, see your friends more often, start saving for your kids education, start applying for a different job... etc,etc. Good luck! You will need it, because the odds are against you. Of all people who consciously start personal change, more than 80% will have returned to their old habits within two years. No wonder the world is filled with cynical people, that are still in the same job they have hated for over 10 years, still smoke 2 packs of cigarettes everyday and still spend too little time with their kids. It's time for change."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Intelligence Multipliers: Tapping Into Every Company's Underutilized Resource
By Liz Wiseman
"Multipliers liberate people from the inherently oppressive forces within corporate hierarchy. They liberate people to think, to speak, and to act with reason. They create an environment where the best ideas surface and where people do their best work. … They give people permission to think."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / News & Opinion
3x3 for June
By Porchlight
Hot on the tail of the recent Inc. /800-CEO-READ Business Book Bestseller List, we're launching a series of blog posts called '3x3' - where we'll ask the top three authors from each month's bestseller list three of the same questions. June's top three authors are: Dave and Wendy Ulrich (The Why of Work), Jim Champy (Reengineering Health Care), and Gregory Salsbury (Retirementology).
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Too Big To Fail again!
By Porchlight
From Penguin: "Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Too Big to Fail won a Loeb Award for the Best Business Book of the Year. The Loeb, an annual competition administered by the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is considered the highest award in business journalism. " Earlier this year, 800-CEO-READ awarded Sorkin's book, Business Book of the Year in our annual Business Book Awards.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Inc.Live
By Porchlight
Innovation is a word that gets thrown around a lot in business and business writing, but in can be hard to catch—to understand and implement—in your daily operations. It's like a knuckle ball. .
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Zeroes
Book Review by Porchlight
Just when you think the stories of excess and insanity on Wall Street can't get any more unseemly, along comes The Zeroes: My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane by Randall Lane, released today by Portfolio. In particular, there is the chapter entitled "Nails" about his business relationship with Lenny Dykstra. If you've never heard of Mr.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / Excerpts
The Doorbell is Dead: A Guest Post from Ed Muzio
By Porchlight
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear, nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life .
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / News & Opinion
Tough Love interview with John Moore
By Porchlight
As announced last week, we've launched our first digital book over at ChangeThis. com. Tough Love, by John Moore is a business inspired screenplay, and follows his straight-up business book Tribal Knowledge.
Categories: news-opinion