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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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The Race to the Bottom: What Competition Overdose Does to Our Wallets and Well-Being
By Maurice E. Stucke, Ariel Ezrachi
"Competition sometimes fails to deliver. When it does, it often leaves individuals and society worse off. The invisible hand then becomes nothing more than a sleight of hand."
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The Regenerative Life: A Non-Heroic Approach to Change
By Porchlight
“The non-heroic path is a journey. It comes from learning how to live one’s life and play one’s roles in ways that are designed to create change. … It is slow, steady, cumulative, and powerful, like water shaping rock.”
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The Emerging Inequality of Customer Lifetime Value
By Nelson D. Schwartz
“It’s tempting to think that when you call the bank or another financial service provider and you are put on hold for twenty-five minutes, it’s simply because it’s a peak time of day and many other account holders are calling at the same moment. Tempting, but wrong.”
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The Disability Advantage
By Al Etmanski
"The ultimate lesson I’ve learned from my journey in the disability community is that life comes from life. It comes from life in every shape, size, and background. Complex lives. Messy lives. Struggling lives. Determined lives. Funny lives. Mysterious lives. Sensual lives. Beautiful lives. Sacred lives."
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A Declaration of Citizen-User Rights
By Alexis Wichowski
"We can make a decision to change how we handle our data moving forward, to reclaim power over what we give out, to whom, and for what purposes."
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From Brokenness To Blessing
By Matthew Emerzian
"You matter to your family. To your friends. Your company. Your community. Every word you speak. Every thought you have. Every action you take matters. It’s time for you to truly love yourself for who you really are. You matter."
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Permanent Disequilibrium: Finance as an Industry of Sabotage
By Anastasia Nesvetailova, Ronen Palan
"It is quite difficult to make sense of finance today by relying on textbook approaches, wherever their intellectual or political affinities may lie. To understand the remarkable persistence and prevalence of rogue behaviour, we returned to the ideas of a school of thought, often ignored nowadays, known as the old institutional economics (OIE)."
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The #MeToo Movement in the Corporate World: Power, Privilege, and the Path Forward
By Sylvia Ann Hewlett
"There are clear steps that all of us can take to help make sure that everyone has the opportunity to fulfill their professional potential in a safe, welcoming workplace."
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Making Honest Conversations the Norm
By Michael Beer
"Much-admired companies needlessly sacrifice their competitive advantage. Some make huge ethical blunders. Shareholders suffer huge losses in value while employees, customers and society lose trust and confidence in the institution. Why wouldn’t we want to change this? It’s time for honest conversations that enable employees to speak truth to power to go from being fairly unusual to being the norm in organizations."
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The Power Behind the Throne: Getting Along with Your Boss and Others In a Virtual Workplace
By Teresa Douglas
“Getting along with your coworkers in the virtual workforce doesn’t have to be any more difficult than getting along with people in a traditional office. … With a little patience and dedication, you will soon develop positive working relationships with the people you collaborate with to meet goals and produce results.”
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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.