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The Air They Breathe: A Pediatrician on the Frontlines of Climate Change
June 27, 2024
An Excerpt from When We Are Seen
June 05, 2024
'Getting Things Done with Others': An Interview with David Allen and Edward Lamont
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November 30, 2023
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
Book Review by Porchlight
Claire Evans tells the story of the computer, and the internet, through the women who developed the languages they speak.
Categories: editors-choice, narrative-biography
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Blog / ChangeThis
Why Is Diversity Important? The Answer Might Surprise You
By Chris Clearfield
"Pundits and business gurus often talk about how diversity can spark creativity and innovation. Diversity, they tell us, is supposed to be something beautiful: Different people come together to learn from one another and create an inclusive team that's more than the sum of its parts. Everyone brings something special to the table, and the collaboration of unique individuals leads to amazing new ideas. But it turns out that diversity is often more painful than beautiful—and that's exactly why it's so valuable in complex environments. It helps because it makes things harder."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
A Better Business through a Great Place to Work for All
By The Great Place to Work Research Team
"What it means to be a great workplace has evolved. We have entered a new era, a new frontier in business. Our economy has evolved through agrarian, industrial, and 'knowledge' phases to the point where the essential qualities of human beings—things like passion, creativity, and a willingness to work together—are the most critical. In this 'human economy,' every employee matters. "
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
For Outstanding Performance, Change How You Solve Problems
By Karen Martin
"Ask any business leader if he or she is good at solving problems and the likely response is, 'Of course!' After all, business leaders spend a lot of their time navigating problems. If they weren't good at it, those leaders would lose their jobs, wouldn't they? Not if the organization doesn't know what robust problem solving looks like. Most organizations don't and as a result they perform below their potential."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Willpower Is an Outdated Model of Success: Here's the Future of Self-improvement
By Benjamin Hardy
"Instead of being told to change their environment, the prominent self-help advice continues to charge people to change themselves. I can't emphasize enough how terrible this advice is. It's actually impossible to change yourself without also changing your environment. Your environment and you are two indivisible parts of the same whole."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Forget Everything You Know About Culture
By Denise Lee Yohn
"Most of the existing rhetoric on culture says that managers must be warm and nurturing and they must treat their employees like family, being encouraging and inclusive. That's just wrong. You don't need to offer a supportive, benevolent culture to be a great manager, organization, or business. And anyone who insists that you must have a certain type of culture gravely misunderstands the role culture plays in an organization."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / Excerpts
The CEO Next Door: The 4 Behaviors That Transform Ordinary People Into World-Class Leaders
By Porchlight
Elena Botelho and Kim Powell explain that "much of what we hear about who gets to the top, and how, is wrong," and give us a clearer picture of how to launch your career to the top.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Clarity First: How Smart Leaders and Organizations Achieve Outstanding Performance
By Porchlight
Karen Martin writes about the vital importance of organizational clarity, and helps you achieve it.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / New Releases
Business Books to Watch in March
By Porchlight
These are the books we'll be digging further into in March.
Categories: new-releases, narrative-biography, publishing-industry
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Blog / Editor's Choice
A Second Chance: For You, For Me, And For The Rest Of Us
Book Review by Porchlight
Catherine Hoke knows that doing something wrong doesn’t make you a bad person, and that one's life shouldn’t be defined by the worst thing they’ve ever done. She works every day to make sure that's true for others.
Categories: editors-choice