
The ChangeThis Manifesto
August 21, 2019
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The Places We’ll Live, and What They’ll Look Like
By Parag Khanna
Smart cities won’t truly be smart until we get smarter. … Inclusive systems—whether cities or nations—empower everyone such that the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts.
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Can You Really Change Other People?
By Peter Bregman, Howie Jacobson
No matter your role at work and in life, your success is dependent, at least in part, on the success of those around you. In many situations, it would be great for you if people changed for the better. Just about all of the time, though, it would be better for them too.
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Bringing Your Conscience to Work
By G Richard Shell
When you bring your sense of right and wrong to work, you can enjoy tranquility in that most private of all domains: your conscience.
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Active Inquiry: The Most Important AI for Our Future
By David Brendel, Ryan Stelzer
Active inquiry represents our best opportunity to engage each other in meaningful collaboration, but to succeed it requires self-reflection and self-restraint. While appearing deceptively simple on the surface, active inquiry depends on careful construction of questions that don’t contain even subtle
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The Makings of a Race Man in Business
By Steven S. Rogers
I am proud of my commitment to the Black community, which led to the dean of faculty calling me a “race man.” I was pleasantly surprised when she, a young White person, properly used that moniker to describe me because it was a badge of honor in the Black community that dates back to the late 19th century.
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The Virtue of Equity
By Minal Bopaiah
Equity in the workplace is about designing a system, a culture, or an organization so that everyone has an equal shot, however they may define what they are shooting for. Moreover, equity gets us out of the hard work of constantly going against the system by creating a system that makes it easy to opt
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The Three Pressure Traps
By Dane Jensen
How we navigate pressure in key moments and over the long haul has a huge impact on the trajectory of our life and how much we enjoy the journey.
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Run Slower: The New Superpower for Our Sped Up World
By April Rinne
In an upside-down world that coaxes, cajoles, and coerces you to run ever faster, your key to true success and growth is to do the opposite: learn how to run slower.
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Debunking and Dismantling Disempowering Beliefs
By Shirley Davis
Overcoming our disempowering beliefs isn’t easy. It takes a significant amount of work, introspection, and time. Moreover, it isn’t a “one and done.” You don’t just go through this process once and be finished with it. Rather, it’s an ongoing process of steps that we must revisit over and over. We must,
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The State of the Designer
By Laura Fish, Scott Kiekbusch
In this adapted excerpt from the first chapter of The Designer’s Guide to Product Vision, Laura Fish and Scott Kiekbusch discuss the history of design and why it's so important for designers to take a seat at the table of company leadership.
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.