ChangeThis | Porchlight

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The 2019 Porchlight Business Book of the Year Congratulations to Don t Be Evil by Rana Forhoohar, a penetrating indictment of how today’s largest tech companies are hijacking our data, our livelihoods, our social fabric, and our minds. Read more Covid-19 Special Offers We’re offering a number of ways to move physical books during this time of physical distancing. Learn More Preorder Campaigns We offer a wide variety of services to help authors and publishers capture preorders, and accurately report the sales when they ship. Learn More Submissions Open! The 2020 Call for Entries is now open! Our biggest change this year is that we are only accepting eBooks for review copies. Learn more We changed our name! After more than two decades of doing business as 800-CEO-READ, we changed the name of our company to Porchlight. So what s changing, what s not, and why? Learn More Contact Customer Service We understand that every order is unique, and often needs the flexibility that only a dedicated personal representative can provide. Email Us Now The ChangeThis Manifesto Sometimes it seems as though our disagreements over everything–from politics to business to the designated hitter rule–are more serious and more divisive than ever before.People are making emotional, knee-jerk decisions, then standing by them, sometimes fighting to the death to defend their position.And yet, weʼre optimists. August 21, 2019 ChangeThis Making Inclusive Design a Priority By Annie Jean-Baptiste As diversity and inclusion champion Joe Gerstandt reminds us, “If you do not intentionally, deliberately and proactively include, you will unintentionally exclude.” This phrase is often repeated at Google to remind our teams that merely wanting to do the right thing isn’t enough. September 09, 2020 ChangeThis The Problem of Work: The Promise and Perils of the Sharing Economy By Juliet Schor Technological innovation and cultural change have put a person-to-person economy, with its solution to the problem of work, within reach. August 26, 2020 ChangeThis Talking About Talking: The Art of Public Speaking In an Age of Disconnection By John Bowe "The idea of a nonprofit organization carrying the torch of an obscure, long-lost traditionemphasizing social and interpersonal skills seemed to bear upon every dour preoccupationI’ve ever nursed about modern life, capitalism, and technology." August 21, 2020 ChangeThis Four Urgent Global Crises: Pressing Problems Other than COVID We Need to Address By Blair H. Sheppard The things that worry us as individuals, it turns out, worry all of us as citizens ofthe world. Global problems are local problems and no different in North or SouthAmerica, Europe, Asia, or Africa. August 12, 2020 ChangeThis Girls' Natural Advantage:Collaborative Problem-Solving and the Future of Work By Marisa Porges Our girls have the advantage at a skill that will become ever more important moving forward. This is why collaboration is an ideal talent to promote when girls are young— so they recognize the importance of this skill and can effectively tap into it as adults, ensuring it becomes their lasting advantage August 05, 2020 ChangeThis The Double X Economy: Why Women’s Economic Exclusion is a Bigger Deal Than You May Think By Linda Scott Despite accounting for half the species, half the national income, and half the food supply, women are nevertheless treated as bit players by economists and policy makers. […] The opportunity cost of excluding the Double X Economy is always steep. July 29, 2020 ChangeThis Black Fatigue: An Introduction By Mary-Frances Winters The history of white supremacist, racist systems have led to Black intergenerational fatigue. The impact of Black fatigue is not only on Blacks but also on society. The racist system is not just literally killing Black people; it is tearing the whole nation apart. July 22, 2020 ChangeThis Shareholder Value as Yesterday’s Idea By Rebecca Henderson Markets only create genuine freedom of opportunity if everyone has the chance to play.When unchecked markets leave too many people too far behind, they destroy thefreedom of opportunity that is fundamental to their own legitimacy. July 15, 2020 ChangeThis American Aristocracy By Nicholas D Kristof, Sheryl Wudunn Researchers have found that … in countries around the world, the accumulation ofwealth also often leads to accumulation of political power that is then harnessed tomultiply that wealth. Indeed, that’s what we’re seeing in America. July 08, 2020 ChangeThis The Declaration of Independence The primary author of the Declaration of Independence was Thomas Jefferson. For all the highideals he provided the document and our country, he was also, like the majority of signatoriesto the Declaration, a slave owner. There were also ardent abolitionists in the group that signedthe document, but July 01, 2020 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.

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ChangeThis is a project that began in the mind of Seth Godin, and built into being in the summer of 2004 by Amit Gupta, Catherine Hickey, Noah Weiss, Phoebe Espiritu, and Michelle Sriwongtong. ChangeThis continues on Porchlightbooks.com with weekly manifestos offering new ways to think about current issues.

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