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Comment définir ChangeThis ? J’ai découvert ce site Internet un peu par hasard et il serait vraiment hasardeux de le ranger dans une catégorie bien définie. ChangeThis s’apparente en effet plus ou moins à une compilation de présentations, mais cette définition est un peu réductrice. D’ailleurs, c’est le terme de ‘manifeste’ qui est préféré ici à celui de ‘présentation’.

Les créateurs de ce site ont pour ambition de diffuser des idées qui peuvent changer le monde dans lequel nous vivons aujourd’hui. Voici d’ailleurs une sélection des manifestes qui ont attiré mon attention. Je vous invite bien sûr à consulter la liste complète.

Indexing a career: a career path in pictures

Jessica Hagy has a unique and irreverent sense of humor, and has the ability to capture complex realities in a 3” by 5” frame. Here she has organized a series of twenty index cards she has created throughout the years, plotting the trajectory of an imagined, but possibly recognizable, career path.

Ideaicide: how to avoid it and get what you want

Ideaicide is deadly. People come up with lots of new ideas everyday, but nothing happens. The problem is not usually the ideas themselves. Corporate forces act to eliminate risk and make an idea conform to the company’s existing business model, not to the needs of the marketplace. The edginess of the idea is gone, replaced by cold, calculated efficiency and predictability. We will show you how to bring your ideas to life.

Humanize it: Bring five-star sparkle to your customer interactions and watch your business flourish

The best thing you can do for your business is not about new technology, brute force, or first-mover advantage. It’s something simpler. And more dependable. Humanize each customer interaction, in order to turn your product or service into much more than a commodity. In your customer’s mind, commodities are interchangeable and replaceable. Humanized relationships are not.

Drawings that will change your life

Ralph Perrine believes drawing to be indispensable to good planning and good collaboration, the top two critical skills for success in life. Here, he shares twelve drawings to help bring focus and clarity to teams and any personal planning.

Build your brand in bits and bytes: building your personal brand online

Arruda and Dixson warn: you are being googled. Internet research is now a no-brainer in the hiring process, whether you are applying for a job or pitching your bid. So, how can you impress recruiters and clients when they perform this kind of reference check? The authors offer steps to making you digitally distinctive.

The connection culture: a new source of competitive advantage

One of the most powerful and least understood aspects of business is how an emotional connection between management, employees and customers provides a competitive advantage. Unless the people who are part of a business feel a sense of connection – an emotional bond that promotes trust, cooperation and esprit de corps – they will never reach their potential as individuals, nor will the organization.

The new time management: simply focus on the fundamentals, and toss away the tips

As working professionals across the world, we all want the same things when it comes to time management. We want to feel a certain peace of mind that comes from knowing that our affairs are in order and that we’ve not forgotten something that might jump up later to give us a nasty surprise.

We also want to get as much as we can out of life, and to maximize the time we have to be alive. We share the belief that this time is limited, and we want to spend it in ways that are in line with our values and commitments.

And we all face the same problem of having only 24 hours in the day.

It’s time to evolve: leading with just enough anxiety in the 21st century

In Prehistoric times, saber-toothed tigers and other wild animals tried to make primitive man their meal, before he made a meal out of them. Out of this anxiety-ridden society, a built-in coping mechanism was burned into our genes—the fight or flight response. In today’s business world, leaders face a modern-day breed of saber-toothed tigers; burnout, corporate takeovers, diminishing finances, and other anxiety-producing events threaten our well-being and the survival of our companies every day.

Strive for minimal achievement

Failure is valuable only when we realize it is a normal part of the business process even when there always isn’t something to learn. So it does not hold us back.

The real fear and pressure in this whole process is not brought on by our competitors or other outside people. It mostly originates within us. The biggest fear we have is that someone in our position would have done better than us, made better decisions than us and would have built it faster and more profitably than we did. We believe that that we should be in a different place than where we are right now, and that we would be, if only we had made better decisions. Nonsense.

In our business life, in order to move forward, past the fear, past the failure, yes past the success, we actually need to just let go. Letting go is the key to gaining true business confidence. Not by holding onto what people have taught you are the keys to success. Not by looking for the 7 steps. You need to let go of the idea that there is always something to learn from failure or that you can always build and duplicate your success. Get ready for your next great success by letting go and bouncing.

Why the place you choose to live is the most important decision of your life

Increasingly, the place you choose to live will help determine your success in business, in finding a life partner, and in living a fulfilling life. In fact, it may be the most important decision of your life. I believe that we are in the beginnings of a shift as fundamental as the industrial revolution was over a century ago - one that will have as dramatic an impact on how people live and work. Furthermore, it will have a dramatic impact on where they live and work.

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