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ChangeThis is our weekly series of essays from today's thought leaders that are meant to evoke conversation by bringing forth new and unique ideas.
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Accountable Leadership
By Vince Molinaro
It is time to stop settling and tolerating mediocrity from our leaders. We need leaders to be truly accountable.
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The Criminalization and Enslavement of the Poor
By Ben Crump
Slavery was officially abolished in America more than 150 years ago, but the desire to replace its cheap labor source and funnel finances into private for-profit prisons has given rise to an immoral system that consciously and unconsciously criminalizes and imprisons Black and brown Americans.
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My Racist Introduction
By Ibram X Kendi
"After taking this grueling journey to the dirt road of antiracism, humanity can come upon the clearing of a potential future: an antiracist world in all its imperfect beauty. It can become real if we focus on power instead of people, if we focus on changing policy instead of groups of people. It’s possible if we overcome our cynicism about the permanence of racism."
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7 “Primitive” Qualities for Finding Meaning in Your Work
By Marco Greenberg
This radical work-life imbalance makes it more urgent than ever that our work truly give us meaning. It should focus the mind on a critical question: is our work fulfilling?
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Trauma Stewardship
By Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky, Connie Burk
Trauma always creates a ripple effect, the same as when someone throws a stone into a still pond. The initial impact creates repercussions that expand almost infinitely, reaching and having an effect on many people who didn’t experience the blows firsthand. The shockwaves soon move beyond individual caregivers to influence the organizations and systems in which we work and, ultimately, the society as a whole. The harms of trauma exposure response radiate in this way, but so do the benefits of trauma stewardship.
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The Rituals of Concentration
By Stefan Van Der Stigchel
Sometimes a ritual is exactly what you need to get yourself fully into concentration mode.
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All Lives Are Precious—But Not Priceless
By Howard Steven Friedman
We should seek to minimize injustices wherever possible. This can only be done if we challenge injustices wherever they appear, especially when lives are unfairly valued.
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Finding Clarity in a Complex World
By Julia Hobsbawm
We have to look at ourselves now, as we are, and apply the Simplicity Principle to our lives. This means making decisions now. This means embracing neurodiversity now. This means letting go of old ideas about productivity being about clocking on and off, and more about creativity and the ability to be curious. It’s about how we rest and reset, and it is about how we learn and understand our limits.
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Building Ethical, Empathic, and Inclusive AI
By Rana El Kaliouby
We depend too much on technology to give it up. And doing so would be a terrible mistake. We need our technology more than ever. But we need to make it smarter, better, and more humane. And fortunately, we now have the tools to do this.
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Why We Need More Women of Color in Tech
By Susanne Tedrick
You might be asking yourself why on earth I would subject myself to a field that has typically been non-welcoming to women of color and where the support structures are iffy, at best. For all the negative news and statistics, there really is no greater time for us to be here. I’d like to share with you why by sharing my journey to tech.
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The original idea behind ChangeThis came from Seth Godin, and was built in the summer of 2004 by Amit Gupta, Catherine Hickey, Noah Weiss, Phoebe Espiritu, and Michelle Sriwongtong. In the summer of 2005, ChangeThis was turned over to 800-CEO-READ. In addition to selling and writing about books, they kept ChangeThis up and running as a standalone website for 14 years. In 2019, 800-CEO-READ became Porchlight, and we pulled ChangeThis together with the rest of our editorial content under the website you see now. We remain committed to the high-design quality and independent spirit of the original team that brought ChangeThis into the world.