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Blog / ChangeThis
A World Without Surprise
By Porchlight
"The ChangeThis instructions read: 'If you have a book... please use it only as a jumping-off point from which to isolate a particularly intriguing idea.' Well, I have a book. It's called Pow! Right Between The Eyes! And its particularly intriguing idea opens mouths, pops eyes and, may I say, whups ass. While potent and influential, it is also the most bullying of ideas; taunting me, challenging me, expecting me, every time, to do something different. [...] I considered putting the words into song, but given a vocal range better suited to the dulcet tones of thrash metal, my message would've been distorted and muddied. So I did the next best thing. I think. May I present, the apocalyptic poetic vision of... A WORLD WITHOUT SURPRISE."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Learning to View Your Customers as a Powerful Tribe
By Porchlight
"As a business it's tempting to think of a 'tribe' as a 'customer base.' That's wrong. People aren't part of a tribe simply because they buy a product or service. What qualifies them as a tribe are their connections. Tribes of customers are connected to an idea, each other, products, services, employees, etc.—creating a network of connections to the business as a whole."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Self, and Importance. A Call to Reflection and Action
By Porchlight
"When we align ourselves with the opinions of others without examination, we are robbing ourselves of the opportunity to analyze our own preferences and desires, to determine our own solutions. We miss the chance to review the criteria others are utilizing, to question their biases and seek our own inspiration. In stunting the development of our own individual perspectives and initiatives, we trap ourselves in lives that appear to be predestined, and deny the possibility of realizing our personal potential."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Powerful Solving: In the Foundation of Innovation
By Porchlight
"In order to be powerful, you need to deliver as much force, covering as much distance, in the shortest time possible. Consequently, given a force, if you want to improve the power you need to apply the force over a greater range OR decrease the time needed! Let's now make an analogy in the cognitive world. What is the force analogy? Force is the origin of the move in the mechanical world. In the cognitive world, the move is initiated by your ideas. So: F = Ideas Now, let's look at the path."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / News & Opinion
ChangeThis: Issue 55
By Porchlight
The 55th issue of ChangeThis has been published for your perusal and reading pleasure. Excerpts and links below. ::::: Live the Juggle Life by Ian Sanders "In this scrambled up world of work there are no rules and few walls.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Largest Gathering of 100 Best Authors West of the Mississippi
By Porchlight
Last week Todd and I hosted a 100 Best event at Stanford. This was the largest gathering to date of 100 Best authors west of the Mississippi River! Joining us were Jeffrey Pfeffer and Bob Sutton, authors of The Knowing-Doing Gap; Chip Heath, with Made to Stick; and Randy Komisar, with The Monk and Riddle.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
The 100 Best: an Interview with Strat Sherman of Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will
By Porchlight
As I mentioned yesterday, we're posting a number of interviews with the authors of books in The 100 Best. Today's interview is with Strat Sherman, co-author of Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will. This was the first book to write on the success of GE in the Jack Welch era.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Twitter!
By Porchlight
Dear reader, If you're on twitter, we'd love to see you there. You can find us @800ceoread. com.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
The first of the podcasts with authors in The 100 Best
By Porchlight
This last week has been a bit of a whirlwind here! Much is going on with The 100 Best. Lots of folks are talking about it and tweeting about it.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Blogging From O'Reilly Tools of Change
By Porchlight
I am in NYC for the next two days at the O'Reilly Tools of Change Conference. I am going to post updates on the author blog and on my twitter account.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry