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“The Technologies Are Not As Robust As Anybody Imagines”

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“The Technologies Are Not As Robust As Anybody Imagines”

Meredith Broussard, author of More Than a Glitch, probes the vulnerabilities within algorithmic systems, some benign, others deadly.

“It’s All About Embedding These Practices Into Existing Routines”

This 10 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 166 pages) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 190 minutes (about 4 hours). Learn more.

“It’s All About Embedding These Practices Into Existing Routines”

When it comes to psychological safety, there is a gap between understanding and implementation. Yet putting it into practice is not as complicated or time-consuming as many assume, say Minette Norman and Karolin Helbig, authors of The Psychological Safety Playbook.

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NEW: HOW-TO-GUIDE

This 8 min. read saves you up to 32 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 7 getAbstract summaries (5 books with a total of 1588 pages and one article) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 1898 minutes (about 32 hours). Learn more.

Become A Learning Content Curator

Here are the top 3 rules for learning content curation in organizational learning.

NEW ARTICLES

“It’s Crucial to Identify and Prioritize the Human Interactions That Are Most Impactful.”

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For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from one getAbstract summary (one book with a total of 240 pages) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 278 minutes (about 5 hours). Learn more.

“It’s Crucial to Identify and Prioritize the Human Interactions That Are Most Impactful.”

Author and Southern New Hampshire University President Paul LeBlanc wants institutions and organizations to refocus on who they are meant to serve: human beings.

Poor and inflexible customer service harms us. It also harms the companies that spend millions implementing this type of limbo.

Close the knowledge-action gap with these best practices.

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INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2023

The Longlists Are Here!

Here are the Nominees for getAbstract’s International Book Award 2023 in the “Business Impact” Category.

Here are the Nominees for getAbstract’s International Book Award 2023 in the “Learning Impact” Category.

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FOCUS: LEARNING & AI

Opportunities and Risks of Rapid Upskilling

NEW FRONTIERS

Remove the Top 5 Engagement Blockers in Corporate Learning

This 9 min. read saves you up to 35 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 9 getAbstract summaries (6 books with a total of 1722 pages, one article, one video and one podcast) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 2058 minutes (about 35 hours). Learn more.

Remove the Top 5 Engagement Blockers in Corporate Learning

In most cases, the problems are homemade.

“You Have to Deliver Learning with Minimal Friction.”

Nelson Sivalingam, author of Learning at Speed, outlines the new AI-powered and adaptive L&D world, where learning professionals evolve from course creators to skill-builders and become valuable assets to employees and the business.

Here are the top 3 rules for learning content curation in organizational learning.

Bridging the Gap: Microlearning, Deep Learning and the Battle for Attention

Microlearning drives modern workplace learning, but at what cost?

Navigating the Mental Effects of AI-Driven Upskilling Demands

Addressing the challenges of cognitive overload and decision paralysis.

HANDS-ON ADVICE

“Our Brains Simply Aren’t Designed to Absorb Massive Portions of Complex Information in One Sitting.”

This 11 min. read saves you up to 11 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 2 getAbstract summaries (2 books with a total of 536 pages) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 633 minutes (about 11 hours). Learn more.

“Our Brains Simply Aren’t Designed to Absorb Massive Portions of Complex Information in One Sitting.”

Jana Eicher, EdContent Lead at getAbstract, explains what microlearning is and isn’t – and how getAbstract decided to move into the microlearning space.

THE WAY FORWARD

This 8 min. read saves you up to 204 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 50 getAbstract summaries (37 books with a total of 10159 pages, 11 articles, one video and one podcast) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 12183 minutes (about 204 hours). Learn more.

How to Reassure Your Team

In the face of unsettling technological change, ease the panic and show a way forward – with these eight action steps.

“Demonstrating Empathy Is Half the Battle.”

People resist embracing new things for four fundamental reasons. David Schonthal, author of The Human Element, explains how to overcome change resistance and prevent friction clashes.

To get the most useful answers from generative AI programs, ask more useful questions.

Use AI to Personalize and Gamify Your L&D Ecosystem

New technologies and strategies support just-in-time learning.

A reflection on staying relevant in the age of ChatGPT.

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NEW INTERVIEWS

In Conversation with Experts and Professionals

This 15 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 232 pages) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 264 minutes (about 5 hours). Learn more.

“You Have to Deliver Learning with Minimal Friction.”

This 14 min. read saves you up to 5 hours

“The Technologies Are Not As Robust As Anybody Imagines”

Meredith Broussard, author of More Than a Glitch, probes the vulnerabilities within algorithmic systems, some benign, others deadly.

This 10 min. read saves you up to 4 hours

“It’s All About Embedding These Practices Into Existing Routines”

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HOW-TO-GUIDES >

This 8 min. read saves you up to 32 hours

Become A Learning Content Curator

Here are the top 3 rules for learning content curation in organizational learning.

Close the knowledge-action gap with these best practices.

How to Manage Your Time Using the Pomodoro Technique

Tame your murderous schedule before it kills you.

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READING LISTS >

This 10 min. read saves you up to 22 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 8 getAbstract summaries (6 books with a total of 1092 pages and 2 articles) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 1301 minutes (about 22 hours). Learn more.

Agile Through Employee Development

Companies increasingly realize they cannot avoid agility during disruption and change. In the process, they overlook their biggest lever: agile employee development.

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LONGREADS >

This 9 min. read saves you up to 82 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 20 getAbstract summaries (18 books with a total of 4102 pages and 2 videos) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 4914 minutes (about 82 hours). Learn more.

Find What Makes You Human

A reflection on staying relevant in the age of ChatGPT.

As with most pandemic-related changes, supply chains won’t revert “back to normal.” Yet transformations in the sector are spurred less by post-pandemic reckoning and more by new technologies.

How do you feel about money and your financial decisions?

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NEW REVIEWS

Our Independent Book Critiques Are Even Shorter Than Our Summaries

Coaching expert and former command-and-control boss Lyssa Adkins details how agile coaches and teams perform more efficiently and with greater chemistry.

A clear, practical, applicable guide to Scrum’s innate complexities and elegant simplicities.

In this candid memoir, Vans’ late founder Paul Van Doren explains how he started and sustained Vans Shoes, and how he flexed with the times while always remaining true to his vision.

US National Book Award winner Tiya Miles relates the heartbreaking saga of a young enslaved girl being separated from her mother and sold in pre-Civil War America.

Professor of international relations Barbara F. Walter details how democracies and autocracies can dissolve into civil war.

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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.

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 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.”

On rebuilding community after disaster.

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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