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New inBubbleWrap giveaway: UnMarketing
By Sally Haldorson
In everything we do, as business people, as employees, as leaders, we are marketing ourselves. We are presenting our ideas, hoping for buy-in. We are presenting ourselves, hoping for acceptance.
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ChangeThis: Issue 75
By Porchlight
Personality Poker: How to Create High-Performing Innovation Teams by Stephen M. Shapiro "'Opposites attract,' or at least that’s the line we’ve all been fed. However, in reality, nothing could be further from the truth.
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An Embarrassment of Riches
By Porchlight
In 1997, Sebastian Junger wrote a great book called The Perfect Storm. The phrase, “a perfect storm” is used when multiple things come together to create an extraordinary experience. That thought fleeted through my mind last night as I sat reading Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, because, including Freedom, I’m actually reading three brilliant books in three rather different genres.
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Blog / ChangeThis
Business Intelligence vs. Human Intuition & Why You Should Welcome The Robot Overlords
By Porchlight
"In the weird, wild world outside the Petri dish, the correct decision is not always the right decision. There's disconnect between the robot logic of business intelligence and human intuition of right and wrong. Does this disconnect imply that humans use free will to promote the koombayah ideas of fairness, morality, and goodwill toward men and most charismatic megafauna? Or is the human brain simply a cold, rational, pre-programmed computer that happens to take into account more factors than a Game Theory model?"
Categories: changethis
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Looking Around the Corner
By Robert H. Bloom
"From the perspective of my corner office and experience in boardrooms, I observed that we business leaders planned our future by using previous years' financial results as our base line. Today, this relevant but regressive methodology is more-often-than-not still in use, for want of a progressive process coupled with robust software. This fixation on an obsolete planning process guarantees that firms that use it will not keep pace with the rapid, substantive changes in our business world."
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Personality Poker: How to Create High-Performing Innovation Teams
By Stephen M. Shapiro
"The desire for equality permeates everything we do and always has, as can be seen in many of our age-old philosophies. For example, we see it in the Golden Rule, which is often interpreted as 'Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.' However, who really cares what you want? After all, treating people as you want to be treated doesn't address the needs and desires of others. Buying into these doctrines, myths, and lies leads to pasteurizing, homogenizing, and sanitizing everyone in order to fit people into one mold and think the same way so they can then gather together in like-minded harmony. There's a good reason why they call it a company culture, since organizations are, in actuality, mini-cults. Instead, we should consider living by the doctrine: The person you like the least may be the person you need the most."
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Blog / ChangeThis
InsideOut Development: Do What You Already Know
By Porchlight
"If knowledge really were all it took to be a high performer, then all any of us would have to do would be to read that book or take that class and we'd all be winning championships. We'd all be incredible managers, great teachers, phenomenal parents and performance. But we're not. Why? Because the biggest obstacle in performance isn't not knowing what to do; it's not doing what we already know."
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Blog / ChangeThis
Survival of the Simplest: The Micro-Script Rules
By Bill Schley
"I have found out how to simplify the confused and mucked-up world of communications so that your message can penetrate the maelstrom of modern media, whether you are a global corporation, a local politician, a college lecturer, a sales rep or a start-up. I have a magic bullet that will sharpen whatever story you have to tell so that it gets to the heart of the matter, cuts through mental barriers and lodges easily in the mind. As an advisor to companies, politicians and institutions of higher learning, I've been thinking about this problem for about twenty years, and have been figuring out the solution for the last two. I don't know how to de-complicate my cable bill, or untangle the knots in the U.S. Congress, but I do know about this. This is my small part to play in the crusade. So here's your answer."
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Blog / ChangeThis
How to Be Effective: Structuring Change, Managing Change, Leading Change
By Jonathan L. S. Byrnes
"When I talk to former students, clients, and executives, I've found that their biggest concern is being effective—going beyond conceiving great new things and actually driving them into practice. I've also seen that most people make two big mistakes when they think about change: They fail to realize that managing change requires a really different process from day-to-day management, not harder but very different. They approach change in a one-size-fits-all way. Successful change, being effective, involves three things: structuring change, managing change and leading change. I call this The Golden Triangle of Change."
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Five Quick Questions with Jack Covert
By Porchlight
For the first installment of its Five Quick Questions With Publishing’s Top Leaders series, the wonderful folks of Cave Henricks Communication interviewed Jack this week about the current state of Publishing—and where it's heading. Asked what "influences people most to buy business books? " Jack replies: This is a hard question.
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