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This 3 min. read saves you up to 85 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 17 getAbstract summaries (16 books with a total of 4244 pages and one podcast) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 5090 minutes (about 85 hours). Learn more.

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This 7 min. read saves you up to 15 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 3 getAbstract summaries (3 books with a total of 712 pages) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 848 minutes (about 15 hours). Learn more.

Appreciation Is Better than Criticism

Recognizing the tiny details generates stellar results.

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The Four Horsepersons of the AI Apocalypse: Part One

This 5 min. read saves you up to 15 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 6 getAbstract summaries (3 books with a total of 734 pages and 3 articles) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 876 minutes (about 15 hours). Learn more.

The Four Horsepersons of the AI Apocalypse: Part One

Why is success with Artificial Intelligence (AI) so elusive, and what can you do about it?

NEW ARTICLES

Lessons from the “World’s Most Popular Sport”

This 8 min. read saves you up to 41 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 12 getAbstract summaries (7 books with a total of 2034 pages and 5 articles) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 2433 minutes (about 41 hours). Learn more.

Lessons from the “World’s Most Popular Sport”

If you want to understand what makes soccer so appealing, you’ll get a dream pass here.

How To Stop Pressure From Turning Into Stress

Strategies to turn a health enemy into a performance ally

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MAKING SENSE OF TODAY

getAbstract's Summaries on the Latest Topics

Tim Ferriss, Warren Berger, Hope Jahren and Jonathon Keats

The Art of Asking the Right Questions

Ask a dumb question? Experts conclude you could be the smartest one in the room.

big think

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David Brendel and Ryan Stelzer

Think Talk Create

Companies should step back from their obsession with data to create room for conversation, empathy and understanding.

Public Affairs

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Brian Elliott, Sheela Subramanian and Helen Kupp

How the Future Works

Many workers will never return to their offices. Firms must adjust.

Wiley

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Bernard Garrette, Corey C. Phelps and Olivier Sibony

Cracked It!

Learn the method top global consultants use to grasp, structure and solve complex business problems.

Palgrave Macmillan

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Barry Nalebuff

Split the Pie

Split the pie is a groundbreaking and collaborative negotiation method that makes everyone a winner.

HarperBusiness

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Michelle Moore

Real Wins

Michelle Moore pursues awareness and self-determination in a black and white world.

Nicholas Brealey

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HOT TOPIC: PERFORMANCE REVIEWS

How to Give the Right Feedback

Feedback: Embrace It, Don’t Brace for It

This 5 min. read saves you up to 5 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 4 getAbstract summaries (one book with a total of 236 pages and 3 articles) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 279 minutes (about 5 hours). Learn more.

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.

This 7 min. read saves you up to 15 hours

Appreciation Is Better than Criticism

Recognizing the tiny details generates stellar results.

This 2 min. read saves you up to 34 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 10 getAbstract summaries (7 books with a total of 1668 pages and 3 articles) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 2000 minutes (about 34 hours). Learn more.

How to Offer Effective Feedback

Constructive, yet delivered with compassion, feedback is what makes learning cultures thrive.

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CLASSIC ADVICE

Literary Classics and Their Value in Contemporary (Professional) Life

True Optimists Believe in Progress, Not Perfection

This 6 min. read saves you up to 48 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 11 getAbstract summaries (10 books with a total of 2383 pages and one article) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 2854 minutes (about 48 hours). Learn more.

True Optimists Believe in Progress, Not Perfection

Voltaire’s Candide Or: Optimism Taken to the Extreme

This 5 min. read saves you up to 50 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 10 getAbstract summaries (10 books with a total of 2477 pages) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 2968 minutes (about 50 hours). Learn more.

Beware of What You’re Chasing!

Herman Melville’s Moby Dick Or: The Fatal Consequences of a Single-Minded Obsession

This 5 min. read saves you up to 42 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 10 getAbstract summaries (10 books with a total of 2087 pages) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 2500 minutes (about 42 hours). Learn more.

Foregoing Comfort for Adventure

Homer’s Iliad Or: On Embracing Fate and Pursuing Immortality

This 5 min. read saves you up to 45 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 10 getAbstract summaries (8 books with a total of 2229 pages and 2 articles) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 2670 minutes (about 45 hours). Learn more.

A Wake-Up Call for Change

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle Or: Laying the facts bare is the first step to change.

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NEW: INTERVIEWS

In Conversation with Experts and Professionals

“If our value is growth, then I love disruption.”

This 13 min. read saves you up to 5 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from one getAbstract summary (one book with a total of 256 pages) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 295 minutes (about 5 hours). Learn more.

“If our value is growth, then I love disruption.”

Tom Ziglar, author of 10 Leadership Virtues for Disruptive Times, discusses why the “coach leader” gets results while the “T-Rex” leader is going the way of the dinosaur.

“You’ve Got to Understand How the Work You Try to Improve Gets Done.”

This 12 min. read saves you up to 4 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from one getAbstract summary (one book with a total of 179 pages) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 203 minutes (about 4 hours). Learn more.

“You’ve Got to Understand How the Work You Try to Improve Gets Done.”

Brandon Carson, author of L&D’s Playbook for the Digital Age, believes L&D must focus on performance readiness and recognize the potential for on-the-job learning and development – especially in tough economic times.

“We Make Data More Vivid, Beautiful, Intuitive and Memorable.”

This 9 min. read saves you up to 6 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from one getAbstract summary (one book with a total of 272 pages) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 318 minutes (about 6 hours). Learn more.

“We Make Data More Vivid, Beautiful, Intuitive and Memorable.”

Visual Capitalist founder Jeff Desjardins, the author of Signals, illustrates the future.

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HOW-TO-GUIDES >

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.

Making the Most of In-Person Team Gatherings

You’ve been looking forward to this for a long time: Having your entire team in person (!) gathered in one place. How do you make the most of people’s time together?

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READING LISTS >

This 8 min. read saves you up to 41 hours

Lessons from the “World’s Most Popular Sport”

If you want to understand what makes soccer so appealing, you’ll get a dream pass here.

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LONGREADS >

Dopamine: the Good, the Bad and the Useful

This 11 min. read saves you up to 63 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 16 getAbstract summaries (12 books with a total of 3127 pages, 3 articles and one video) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 3742 minutes (about 63 hours). Learn more.

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.

Interruptions derail your workday – 23 minutes at a time.

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NEW: THOUGHT LEADER PROFILES

Instant Practical Insights into the Thinking of Important Contemporaries

On purpose, leadership and empathy.

On facing fears and learning anything.

There are many stories and there are many feminisms.

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

On finding and empowering top talent.

On vulnerability, psychological safety and other leadership skills.

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NEW REVIEWS

Our Independent Book Critiques Are Even Shorter Than Our Summaries

Bestselling author of Radical Candor Kim Scott details the policies and environment necessary to inspire and sustain a just workplace.

Environmental writers John R. Wennersten and Denise Robbins present the definitive overview of climate change – a likely world-defining problem.

“Questionologist” Warren Berger teaches you to ask the right questions at the right time to facilitate your relationships, your career and your self-growth.

Excel Venture Management co-founders Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans describe several possible futures that might emerge from gene editing and engineering.

Activist and writer Jodie Patterson offers a moving saga of her stifled upbringing, fight for equity in her marriages, and unflinching devotion to her transgender child.

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