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This 6 min. read saves you 41 hours

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How to Prepare for Jobs That Don’t Exist Yet

What sounds impossible isn’t that difficult.

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This 6 min. read saves you 25 hours

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Learning Myths Debunked

No, putting that textbook under your pillow while you sleep won’t make you smarter.

CURRENT AFFAIRS

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“The Way to Success Is Knowing Your Strengths and Using Them.”

Women are still passed up for promotion way too often, and men dominate the leadership levels in the workplace. Are hybrid work arrangements going to help level the playing field? Gill Whitty-Collins, author of Why Men Win at Work, shares her thoughts on the topic.

GETABSTRACT INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2021

Let’s take a deep dive into an overused buzzword.

How to Transition to a Hybrid Work Model — Hybrid Video Conference

Making location-flexible work arrangements a success requires thoughtful planning and organization.

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MAKING SENSE OF TODAY

getAbstract's Summaries on the Latest Topics

Paul Shoemaker

Taking Charge of Change

Rebuilders are the leaders your organization needs to implement sweeping, equitable change.

HarperCollins Leadership

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Gary Bolles

The Next Rules of Work

Forget the color of your parachute. Success today is all about mind-set and continual learning.

Kogan Page Publishers

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Bob Johansen

Full-Spectrum Thinking

Can you thrive in a post-categorical world?

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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Jackie Fast

Rule Breaker

Leaders preparing for the future fearlessly break old rules.

Kogan Page Publishers

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Nick Bilton

Hatching Twitter

Savor the complete story of Twitter in more than 140 characters: the men who created it and their power struggles.

Hodder & Stoughton

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Elle Hunt

Ready to Quit Your Job?

Want to quit your job? Don’t make a life-altering decision before thinking it through.

The Guardian

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HOT TOPIC: PERFORMANCE REVIEWS

Prepare, Deliver, Negotiate, Achieve Goals

Feedback: Embrace It, Don’t Brace for It

This 5 min. read saves you 5 hours

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Feedback: Embrace It, Don’t Brace for It

The topic of giving and receiving feedback is in many people’s mind as performance review season is approaching.

How to Avoid Bias in Performance Reviews

This 8 min. read saves you 38 hours

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How to Avoid Bias in Performance Reviews

To leverage the potential, avoid these flaws in thinking and judging.

This 6 min. read saves you 11 hours

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Negotiate Like a Pro

You don’t have to be a negotiation specialist with SWAT experience to get your demands accepted: You’re armed and ready when you follow three simple steps.

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INCLUSION

This 3 min. read saves you 18 hours

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How to Set the Parameters for Inclusion

You can spend a lifetime trying to change individual mind-sets. When it comes to promoting inclusion, top-down approaches can win the day.

COMMUNICATION

This 12 min. read saves you 33 hours

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Agile Communication

In the hybrid world of work, it's all about agile networking among your employees - no matter where they are. This doesn't require more digital tools but more clear rules.

BEST PRACTICES

This 10 min. read saves you 67 hours

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“Look, We Have Made It!”

What company and management biographies have to offer besides hilariously bad book covers.

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INTERVIEWS

In Conversation with Experts and Professionals

This 8 min. read saves you 5 hours

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“The Way to Success Is Knowing Your Strengths and Using Them.”

This 7 min. read saves you 13 hours

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For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 2 getAbstract summaries (2 books with a total of 622 pages) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 740 minutes (about 13 hours).
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“Stress Is Not the Enemy”

Stress is omnipresent – but it does not need to overpower you. Health and performance educator Richard Sutton shares science-backed strategies to build resilience and thrive in a tumultuous world.

“Well-Being Doesn’t Just Mean Switching Off. It Is About How You Burn Your Light.”

This 8 min. read saves you 6 hours

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“Well-Being Doesn’t Just Mean Switching Off. It Is About How You Burn Your Light.”

Nicolai Chen Nielsen and Nicolai Tillisch explain how to make ambition work for you.

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NEW REVIEWS

Our Independent Book Critiques Are Even Shorter Than Our Summaries

The late Congressman John Lewis details his journey from a young sharecropper to a civil rights pioneer crossing that famous bridge where he and other activists changed American history.

Mel Robbins’s mega bestseller details how you can gain courage, overcome procrastination and improve your health just by saying five little words.

Stanford University economics professor Matthew O. Jackson breaks down the types, the reach and the force of human networks.

Barbara Ehrenreich reports with compassion and detail on the plight of America’s low-wage workers, whom she joined to research this heartbreaking indictment.

Professor Paul Collier, author of the award-winning The Bottom Billion, offers pragmatic – and at times radical – solutions to current economic problems.

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FAVORITE READS

Our Favorite Thinkers and Leaders Share Their Favorite Reads

TIFFANY JANA

Diversity consultant Tiffany Jana is a fan of James Clear's bestseller Atomic Habits: "It's one of those brilliant books that intersect beautifully across disciplines," Jana says. That includes the author's own area of expertise: "All of James' suggestions for building good habits and breaking bad ones can be leveraged in support of the inclusive behavior I enumerate in Subtle Acts of Exclusion and my other books." Moreover, Jana is convinced that you can apply Clear's idea of habitual skills to anything you find worth pursuing. So we suggest you read our review of Atomic Habits and give it a try!

REVIEW

James Clear

Atomic Habits

Habit expert James Clear details how you can change your habits by exerting the smallest of efforts.

Random House Business

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