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Blog / ChangeThis
Keep It Real
By Julien Smith
Julien Smith confronts companies and marketers with a deceptively simple question: Are You Keeping It Real? And if you don't know what he means, you probably aren't. So, read up on how you can walk the walk in this new consumer-led century.
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Not a Dirty Word: Seven Steps to Creating an Accountability-Based Organization
By Porchlight
Prosen argues that the best way to produce extraordinary results within your organization is to create an accountability-based culture focused on producing results, not activities.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The State of Competitive Advantage
By Porchlight
Looking forward, competitive advantage demands competent process management to navigate the tumultuous and frenetic environment that enterprises face. Your value acceleration, not just value creation, is the metric to determine your enterprise's success.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Purposive Drift: Making It Up As We Go Along
By Porchlight
It is a common theory that successful people live their lives like a project plan, so we struggle to shape our lives along a pre-determined path. Instead, Oliver asserts that that the majority of people, many of them very successful, make it up as they go along. This smart manifesto offers a convincing and well-researched argument encouraging us to do a little drifting.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects: Change or Die
By Porchlight
Change or Die: Overcoming the Five Myths of Change at Work and in Life by Alan Deutschmann, Regan Books, 241 pages, $26. 95, Hardcover, January 2007, ISBN 0060886897 (ISBN 13: 9780060886899) A book arrived on my desk this month that I couldn't ignore. The title, Change or Die, and the cover are striking, and the author's name, Alan Deutschmann, rang a bell.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Most Influential (Business) People Who NEVER Lived
By Porchlight
Aren't you getting tired of all these lists? People's Most Beautiful People. Forbes Richest People.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Harvard Business Review's Big Ideas for 2007
By Porchlight
Harvard Business Review publishes a list of breakthrough ideas each year. Bob Sutton doesn't think breakthrough is the right word for them, but I think there are a few definitely worth paying attention to this year. Duncan Watts' piece on Accidental Influentials is going to create interesting discussions with the word of mouth marketing community.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects: Oil on the Brain
By Porchlight
Oil on The Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline by Lisa Margonelli, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 290 pages, $26. 00, Hardcover, February 2007, ISBN 0385511450 In 2005, I was late to the game on a great book, Travels of A T-Shirt In The Global Economy.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Adventure sports, Mother Nature's fury, and a lesson on tents
By Porchlight
I love adventure sports (jumping out of planes in Arizona, canyoning paragliding in Switzerland, white water rafting in West Virginia, rock climbing in Colorado [despite my fear of heights]). You can imagine my excitement when I saw that the co-founder of JanSport, Skip Yowell, was publishing a book: The Hippie Guide to Climbing the Corporate Ladder & Other Mountains. <-- That's the cover Last year at BEA, I picked up an excerpt and got a free JanSport backpack (not a bad deal).
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Black Swan - Few and Far Between
By Porchlight
I just started reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan and I think it is wonderful. The former Wall Street trader writes about outliers in the world (9/11, 1929 Market Crash, etc). He says Black Swans have three characteristics: rarity, extreme impact, and retrospective (though not prospective) predictability.
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