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This 16 min. read saves you up to 12 hours

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“We Need to Have Continuous Learning Built Into Our Lives”

Bernard Marr, author of Future Skills, says your humanity is your future’s most valuable skill.

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This 7 min. read saves you up to 56 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 13 getAbstract summaries (8 books with a total of 2776 pages, 2 articles and 2 videos) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 3325 minutes (about 56 hours). Learn more.

Flying Blind Into Technical Deficit

Just because it ain’t broke doesn’t mean you shouldn’t fix it.

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This 12 min. read saves you up to 40 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 11 getAbstract summaries (8 books with a total of 1970 pages, 2 articles and one video) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 2352 minutes (about 40 hours). Learn more.

How to Analyze and Address Skills Gaps

Organizations aware of their employees’ capabilities lay the foundation for targeted development and a robust in-house talent marketplace.

Balance, Blend or Integrate: How Does Work Fit Into Your Life?

These five questions and reading recommendations will guide you to your answer.

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This 16 min. read saves you up to 12 hours

“We Need to Have Continuous Learning Built Into Our Lives”

Bernard Marr, author of Future Skills, says your humanity is your future’s most valuable skill.

This 14 min. read saves you up to 16 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 4 getAbstract summaries (4 books with a total of 792 pages) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 937 minutes (about 16 hours). Learn more.

“Courage Is Fearful, not Fearless.”

In his new book, Bill Treasurer explains how to improve Leadership Two Words at a Time and why it pays off when leaders overcome their fears and ask for bold feedback from their teams.

“The Conventional Recruitment Process Already Discriminates Against People Who Are Neurodiverse.”

This 11 min. read saves you up to 7 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from one getAbstract summary (one book with a total of 328 pages) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 383 minutes (about 7 hours). Learn more.

“The Conventional Recruitment Process Already Discriminates Against People Who Are Neurodiverse.”

No human brain is wired the same way. It’s time for the workplace to reflect this fact, neurodiversity advocate Theo Smith explains.

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HOT TOPIC: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

AI and Its Influence on Tomorrow's Workplaces

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What Are You Talking About with ChatGPT?

How you talk to ChatGTP has an enormous impact on what it spits out. This presents many opportunities, but also some dangers, on the path to widespread and successful use of this AI.

What is the Fourth Industrial Revolution?

A convergence of technologies is swiftly transforming the world. Are you ready for its perils and opportunities?

Several technological innovations converge to create the next phase of the Internet, known as the Metaverse

Yes, But What Has AI Done for You Lately?

You’ve heard the hype about artificial intelligence (AI) being the future. Well, the future has arrived. Many businesses currently use AI for a variety of applications and now’s the time to consider what AI can…

Visionary CEOs are integrating artificial intelligence (AI) solutions as they navigate through digital transformation, but they’re still very human.

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This 13 min. read saves you up to 108 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 23 getAbstract summaries (21 books with a total of 5395 pages and 2 articles) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 6461 minutes (about 108 hours). Learn more.

In Bots, We Trust

AI initiatives in companies fail not only because of a lack of specialized experts in the workforce but also because of knowledge gaps and communication insufficiencies on the part of executives. Here’s how to change that.

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This 9 min. read saves you up to 37 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 8 getAbstract summaries (7 books with a total of 1839 pages and one article) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 2198 minutes (about 37 hours). Learn more.

How to Drive Change as a Leader

The six pillars of transformational leadership.

How to Unleash the Connective Power of ERGs

Employee Resource Groups are no longer nice-to-have options.

A Trickle Down Effect That (Unfortunately) Works

Bad bosses make entire companies worse. But they are less numerous than you might think – and they mainly occur in corporate cultures with antiquated promotion strategies.

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This 6 min. read saves you up to 46 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 10 getAbstract summaries (10 books with a total of 2288 pages) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 2740 minutes (about 46 hours). Learn more.

The 80/20 Principle, Or: Less Is More

The Pareto Law has powerful applications in almost any field of life.

Dopamine: the Good, the Bad and the Useful

Make this powerful brain chemical work for instead of against you.

Why post-pandemic logistics teams struggle with historic data.

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THOUGHT LEADER PROFILES

Instant Practical Insights into the Thinking of Important Contemporaries

This 9 min. read saves you up to 39 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 14 getAbstract summaries (9 books with a total of 1912 pages and 5 videos) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 2286 minutes (about 39 hours). Learn more.

Simon Sinek

On purpose, leadership and empathy.

On facing fears and learning anything.

This 7 min. read saves you up to 25 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 4 getAbstract summaries (4 books with a total of 1215 pages) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 1451 minutes (about 25 hours). Learn more.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There are many stories and there are many feminisms.

This 8 min. read saves you up to 33 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 9 getAbstract summaries (7 books with a total of 1630 pages and one video) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 1948 minutes (about 33 hours). Learn more.

Carol Dweck

On the foundations of a growth mind-set, or, why we are “born to learn.”

This 9 min. read saves you up to 41 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 16 getAbstract summaries (7 books with a total of 2030 pages, 7 articles and 2 podcasts) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 2427 minutes (about 41 hours). Learn more.

Josh Bersin

On finding and empowering top talent.

This 7 min. read saves you up to 23 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 8 getAbstract summaries (4 books with a total of 1136 pages, one video and 3 podcasts) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 1357 minutes (about 23 hours). Learn more.

Brené Brown

On vulnerability, psychological safety and other leadership skills.

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Our Independent Book Critiques Are Even Shorter Than Our Summaries

Todd G. Gongwer offers an accessible sports parable to help you become a compassionate servant leader.

Professor Bernard Crick offers an understated but brilliant overview of democracy and despotism in action.

Journalist Beth Gardiner provides a sobering, detailed, carefully researched overview of air pollution worldwide and its devastating health and economic consequences.

Harvard public policy professor Robert Putnam's classic analysis of American social dysfunction details how weaker social ties undermine community, health, wealth, social progress and trust.

Former Harper’s and GQ editor Christopher Cox offers an in-depth exploration of how various industries deal effectively with deadlines.

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