Job Therapy with Tessa West: How to Repair Your Relationship With Your Job or How to Change Careers
July 25, 2024
An Excerpt from The Power of Instinct
July 25, 2024
Love Is My Favorite Flavor: A Midwestern Dining Critic Tells All
July 12, 2024
The Air They Breathe: A Pediatrician on the Frontlines of Climate Change
June 27, 2024
'Getting Things Done with Others': An Interview with David Allen and Edward Lamont
May 28, 2024
The 2023 Porchlight Business Book Awards
November 30, 2023
Promo Video: Our Author Interview Series
July 31, 2023
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The Career Employee Bill of Rights
By Milo Sindell
In the past, an employee's relationship with their job was about work life boundaries. Today and in the future, work is and will be an integral expression of who you are. More than ever before, people need resources that will give them a framework to organize their ideas, sources of motivation, skills, and tools and sources of motivation to take control of their job and discover what's in it for them. Enter the Career Employee Bill of Rights. These are not the rights afforded to you by the law. These are your eight inalienable rights, and unfortunately, no one has made it clear that you have these rights. Now it's your time and turn to discover what each of these mean to you and take action to make these rights yours. Then, live them every day of your working life and professional career.
Categories: changethis
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Escaping Corporate America: Changing Your Career Can Change Your Life
By Porchlight
You can find meaningful work in corporations, but if the company values are too different from your own or if you are stuck in a job that doesn't tap into your talents, it's probably time to escape. Too often, corporate jobs revolve around meetings and bureaucracy and don't offer you enough opportunities to do work that you can truly feel good about. Over time, the stress of staying in a job you hate can lead to burnout, depression, anxiety, ulcers, chronic back pain, high blood pressure, and even serious heart conditions. You may think that this is the price you have to pay for stability. But make no mistake, whatever job stability you think you enjoy is an illusion. Layoffs are standard operating procedure for corporations these days. No career choice is completely stable and risk free anymore. So if you're going to take a risk anyway, shouldn't you at least do it in pursuit of your passion?
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Blog / ChangeThis
Business Improvisation: The Diving Catch of the Corporate World
By Porchlight
Recall that moment when you where your most creative, aware, and tuned into the world around you. Imagine how valuable it would be to harness that state of mind and apply it at will to your most stressful and challenging business situations. To shine when others collapse or choke. To take a potentially disastrous circumstance and turn it into a diving catch worthy of any sports show highlight reel. Business Improvisation is the process of accessing and applying creativity to a situation in real time. It is the ability to converge composition, creativity and execution to achieve success. [...] This manifesto is about applying the skill of improvisation to performance in the business world. The skills are taught in several other professions such as music, theatre, medicine, military, and EMS. There is also a growing body of research to support the premise. This is your competitive advantage when comes to thinking quickly on their feet.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Seinfeld on Marketing: 7 Marketing Lessons from the Cast of the Show About Nothing
By Porchlight
All this time we thought Seinfeld was a show about "nothing. " Little did we know that peppered in its nine seasons were hidden, real-world marketing lessons taught from the masters themselves. But, unlike the Soup Nazi's secret soup recipes, these marketing lessons are to be shared freely with everyone. So why did I write this eBook. Anyone who knows me well knows that I watch way too much Seinfeld. So much so that many times during a conversation with someone I'll remark, "Hey, that reminds me of a Seinfeld episode where Jerry and Kramer are. . . " Basically, it's a curse. We'll that's all about to change with this eBook. I have decided to use my Seinfeld powers for the good of marketing-kind. Maybe this will help to quiet the voices in my head (doubtful, but one can hope). Even if you have never watched an episode of Seinfeld in your life (shame on you. ), you can still participate. I'll give you the background of each episode so that you can play along at home. . . . on with the show. .
Categories: changethis
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Blog / News & Opinion
Drucker Recommends Drucker Books
By Porchlight
In Jeffrey Krames October 2008 Portfolio book called Inside Drucker's Brain--based on an all day one-on-one visit with the Drucker shortly before he died--he asked Drucker about his books, among other things. Drucker told me what he felt were his most important books. The first one was no surprise, but one or two if the others were.
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ChangeThis: Issue 47
By Porchlight
We've just posted the 47th issue of ChangeThis. Rob Walker, from The New York Times Magazine, leads of the issue with a piece on the stories we tell about ourselves with our purchases and possessions, and who we're really telling them to. Russell Ackoff and Daniel Greenberg follow with a manifesto explaining how our current education system educates our children "for a world that no longer exists" and what we need to do to change it.
Categories: news-opinion
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Inside Steve's Brain Interview With Leander Kahney
By Porchlight
This week, we talk with Leander Kahney and his new book Inside Steve's Brain. Kahney has been covering Apple as a journalist for over a decade. He started writing from MacWorld and now writes for Wired.
Categories: news-opinion
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Cubicle Warfare - office fun for the summer
By Porchlight
No matter how fun or creative your job is, there's always the office space issue to deal with. Cubicles, frustrating fax machines, a copier that seems to run out of toner only for you, fluorescent lights and the scent of old coffee grounds. One of the best ways to cope with these conditions is humor--and sometimes pranks.
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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May's Top Books on Audio
By Porchlight
It's the time everyone's been waiting for! Which TOP 25 BOOKS from our Best Seller List in May are available on CD! !
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PR Fairy Tales - Inc. magazine article
By Porchlight
In the current issue of Inc. Magazine you'll find a short article on companies using children's books (or similar formats) to pitch their messages. PR Fairy Tales: Pitches Disguised as Children's Books Entrepreneurs have a habit of describing their companies in David-and-Goliath terms.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry