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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Willpower Is an Outdated Model of Success: Here's the Future of Self-improvement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.
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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.
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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
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800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for February 2018
By Porchlight
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for February 2018.
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Blog / Book Giveaways
The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything
By Porchlight
Paul Vigna and Michael Casey make a compelling case for the promise of blockchain technology and why we should all get involved.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World
Book Review by Porchlight
Melissa Schilling examines the role of individual genius in innovation, along with how we can cultivate and harness our own and enhance it in the organizations we lead.
Categories: editors-choice