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David Meyer

David N Meyer is a content editor at getAbstract and author of The 100 Best Films To Rent You've Never Heard Of, Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music, The Bee Gees: The Biography, and other books. You can find his essays on film and music at davidnmeyer.com

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    Vest in Self-Belief
    You Coach You
    You Coach Youby Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis Vest in Self-Belief

    Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis – who co-wrote the best-selling book The Squiggly Career – offer sound, workable advice for boosting your growth mindset and self-belief.

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    Greater Self-Awareness
    Emotional Intelligence Habits
    Emotional Intelligence Habitsby Travis Bradberry Greater Self-Awareness

    Travis Bradberry, PhD, co-author of the bestseller, Emotional Intelligence 2.0., provides tools to increase your EQ and improve your relationship with yourself and others.

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    An Equitable Economy
    Free and Equal
    Free and Equalby Daniel Chandler An Equitable Economy

    London School of Economics professor Daniel Chandler offers insights into philosopher John Rawls’s economic philosophy and how that philosophy is relevant today.

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    An Insider’s Managerial Manual
    The Making of a Manager
    The Making of a Managerby Julie Zhuo An Insider’s Managerial Manual

    Facebook’s Julie Zhuo, a design executive who’s been with the company since it began, refers to her journey from working at a small tech startup to managing hundreds…

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    The New World of Work
    An Everyone Culture
    An Everyone Cultureby Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey The New World of Work

    Harvard professors detail groundbreaking mental and emotional approaches to work at cutting-edge corporations.

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    Blunt Heartfelt Advice
    So You Want to Talk About Race
    So You Want to Talk About Raceby Ijeoma Oluo Blunt Heartfelt Advice

    In this indispensable guide, Nigerian-American New York Times best-selling author Ijeoma Oluo explores how – and why – to talk about race and racism.

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    Don’t Be Afraid to Lead
    Dare to Lead
    Dare to Leadby Brené Brown Don’t Be Afraid to Lead

    In Dare to Lead, bestseller Brené Brown supplements her Daring Greatly and Rising Strong with exercises and insights specifically for leaders.

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    The Catmull Way
    Creativity, Inc.
    Creativity, Inc.by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace The Catmull Way

    Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios, presents a memoir full of wonderful film production stories and incredibly valuable lessons in leadership, humility and mindfulness.

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    Talking in Code
    Brave, Not Perfect
    Brave, Not Perfectby Reshma Saujani Talking in Code

    Why women should work to be brave, but not perfect.

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    A Kind of Genius
    Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
    Information Doesn’t Want to Be Freeby Cory Doctorow A Kind of Genius

    What happens when creativity meets copyright? Cory Doctorow lays out the issues with clarity and conviction, while warning that most protective locks get broken and…