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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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Powerful Tips for Overcoming Career Setbacks
By Bill Treasurer
"At some point, every leader is confronted with the reality that his or her leadership is seriously and substantially flawed. It is at this precise moment when a leader is faced with a choice: learn and grow or remain blindly loyal to ignorance. Every leader worth his or her salt will get a psychological kick in the ass eventually. It is a critical and inevitable part of the leadership experience. The untold truth about leadership is that leaders don't progress from good to great: they go from decidedly bad to pretty good. For the last two decades, I've worked with thousands of leaders across the globe. What follows is what they've taught me about how to overcome career setbacks and become a stronger leader in the process."
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How to Transcend the Transactional: Fuel a Lifelong Love Affair with Your Customers and Employees
By Tara-Nicholle Nelson
"Those of us who have taken on business as our life's work must now elevate our thinking. We must dare to be different. Let's stop fixating on which pic to post on which channel. Instead, dedicate yourself and your company to the endeavor of becoming an agent and facilitator of the transformations that people want to make in their lives. Let's talk about why and how."
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Enter Mindfulness: Money Advice in Uncertain Times
By Porchlight
"Pundits talk, bloggers blog, regulators write new rules, and financial firms create new products, while ordinary folks get more and more terrified and less and less ahead. Something in our approach to personal finance must shift. The search outside ourselves for answers is getting us nowhere. We're drowning in a salty sea of information without a single drop of clear common sense. What we need is not more financial intelligence. What we need is emotional intelligence. What we need is mindfulness."
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Death or Glory in the Digital Age of Marketing
By Porchlight
"We are over halfway through a massive transformation of the advertising industry. Smartphone penetration is getting close to 100% in many parts of the world and it won't be too long (maybe 2-3 years) before most TV and video viewing is streamed on demand and most newspapers and magazines will be read on a screen. At that point, almost all marketing will be digital. In parallel, the amount of data about your customers (and potential customers) is growing exponentially. These two trends are converging to destroy mass marketing, along with the associated slow planning timelines and wasted budgets. To succeed in this new world, the marketing function needs to reinvent itself fast, and it won't be easy."
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What If Everyone Brought Their Soul to Work?
By Porchlight
"What if we told you that profit can be the fuel that empowers you to do some serious good in the world? What would happen if we intentionally tore down those walls that separate us from going to work and giving back—where everyone was given permission to do good while they did their work? Think about how that would even affect your customers; how do you think they'd react if they were given the chance to see the kind of positive impact the dollars they spend can have on the world?"
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Turn On, Tune In, Drop In!
By Jagat
"Your most amplified life is possible. That means amplified health, amplified happiness, amplified love, and amplified success. Yoga is a set of tools developed and refined over thousands of years that maximizes the body systems and the space-time continuum of the world around us, meaning our experience of reality, to create the most immense results in all areas of life. Kundalini Yoga is a pure, unbroken stream of these yogic practices and I believe is the quickest, most direct—and most accessible—way to activate your own path of Invincible Living."
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Want to be a Great Leader? Learn to "Be the Fulcrum"
By Porchlight
"To be a great leader you cannot rest on your laurels and you cannot stick with your natural leader-ship tendency when the situation demands otherwise, no matter how well that style has served you in the past. You must be willing and able to shift the balance when the situation demands it."
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Seizing Success: How Mindset Makes It Happen
By Porchlight
"There are countless books on the subject of success, but with few exceptions, they approach success from the wrong angle. They preach about how success can be achieved quickly and retained forever, and they are hooked on the methodology and the management of success, not on the most fundamental piece of the puzzle: our mindset of success."
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HACKING INNOVATION
By Josh Linkner
Having studied all kinds of hackers—from the illicit exploits of cybercriminals to the kindhearted researchers who hack in order to eradicate disease—there are some common shared philosophies. This set of beliefs will serve as the underpinning for your own hacking exploits, and allow you to build a hacking culture in your own organization.
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Intentional Action: How Leaders Succeed
By Courtney Lynch
"While we never know exactly how many days are ahead of us, it can be quite valuable as leaders to see the expanse of runway in our futures. Whether we have five years or 25 years to retirement, knowing that we have time to recommit, reinvent or redo a decision is comforting. We are only stuck in time if we choose to be. I encourage you to imagine what's next, what's left or what's still in your heart to become, and then take intentional actions toward bringing that vision to life. Embracing the now includes understanding longevity and respecting that we are all still works in progress."
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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.