New Work: Resilience | Journal by getAbstract

NEW WORK: RESILIENCE

Tempering against the Unexpected

VIRTUAL MEETING FATIGUE

Back-to-back meetings cause a lot of stress. Here’s what you and your organization can do to prevent meeting fatigue.

On self-awareness.

VIDEO TALKS

This minute read saves you up to 6 hours

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#gettogether: How to Build Resilience

Stanford Graduate School professor Leah Weiss explains how to build a resilient spirit and inspire your team members to do the same.

#gettogether: How to Manage Change

#gettogether: How to Prevent Burnout

#gettogether: How to Manage a Crisis Moment (or Season)

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BURNOUT PREVENTION

Pandemic Fans the Flames of Burnout: It’s Time to Take Action

This 5 min. read saves you up to 37 hours

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Pandemic Fans the Flames of Burnout: It’s Time to Take Action

Pandemic burnout is real – including for those with cushy work-at-home jobs.

COPING WITH CHANGE

“Being Open and Agile Is the One Vital Skill for the 21st Century”

This 14 min. read saves you up to 2 hours

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“Being Open and Agile Is the One Vital Skill for the 21st Century”

Applicable Tricks That Help Navigate Disruption in the Workplace.

TWEAKS AND HABITS

This 7 min. read saves you up to 54 hours

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Biohacking for Beginners

Tweaks to sharpen your thinking and increase your energy

This 5 min. read saves you up to 29 hours

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Persistence Is Key

In my recent columns, we have seen how to nurture the creativity we all have and kindle the innovation flame with inspiration. But there is also a less fun part of the innovative and creative…

Design Your New Normal

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SOFT SKILLS

This 3 min. read saves you up to 38 hours

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Resilient Leader, Resilient Team

An agile organization responds to whatever changes the marketplace throws at it. But ironically, navigating change smoothly requires consistency.

Embracing the Unknown

Collaborate to Motivate

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REVIEW

Brené Brown’s intelligent sincerity and easy prose welcome readers to her informed, supportive counsel.

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LONGREADS

Of Viruses, Vulnerability and Superheroes

This 4 min. read saves you up to 49 hours

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Of Viruses, Vulnerability and Superheroes

Isolation highlights the need to reach out.

There is no substitute to person-to-person bonding. But there are ways to address the same needs in a new way – or at least to bring more humanity into our online interactions.

This 4 min. read saves you up to 31 hours

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“Hello, How Are You?”

In times when the whole world is wondering how best to get through the current crisis, small things make the difference. For example, taking an honest interest in your employees.

This 4 min. read saves you up to 61 hours

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Nobody Is Perfect

Although we all know this adage is true, perfectionism remains one of the main obstacles on the way to achieving common goals and staying motivated. Here is how to overcome it.

This 5 min. read saves you up to 28 hours

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Grief – An Often Negated Feeling

How to mourn properly, and how to deal with mourners properly.

Ancient Buddhist Wisdom for Turbulent Times

This 5 min. read saves you up to 84 hours

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Ancient Buddhist Wisdom for Turbulent Times

Though timeless, the teachings of Buddhism are uniquely suited to cope with today’s fast-paced world.

This 7 min. read saves you up to 26 hours

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Leading for Well-Being

A healthy workforce is a productive workforce. From sponsoring exercise programs to creating a values-based work culture, there is a lot you can do as a leader to help your employees thrive.

This 8 min. read saves you up to 24 hours

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The COVID Recession Is Female

The pandemic sent employees home to work at the same time child care centers and schools closed, placing an untenable burden on families that’s now driving women from the workforce. Here’s what companies can do.

Think Like a Rower, and Other Life Lessons from Sports

This 8 min. read saves you up to 32 hours

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Think Like a Rower, and Other Life Lessons from Sports

Organizations increasingly recognize lifelong learning as an economic imperative. But work-relevant learning does not stop at the end of the workday.

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Additional Resources

Working From Home With Kids
Classic Advice
How-to-Guides

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SELECTED SUMMARIES

Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy

Resilience

Why do some systems crash in a crisis and why do others bounce back?

Free Press

Zusammenfassung lesen

Bonnie St. John and Allen P. Haines

Micro-Resilience

Increase your energy, initiative and focus by making small changes in your daily life.

Center Street

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George S. Everly Jr., Douglas A. Strouse and Dennis K. McCormack

Stronger

Use the “psychological body armor” of resilience to overcome adversity.

AMACOM

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Angela Duckworth

Grit

To develop your “grit,” combine passion and perseverance over time.

Vermilion

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Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant

Option B

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg shares a message of resilience and hope after weathering a tsunami of grief.

Knopf

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Akash Karia

Emotional Habits

“Emotionally resilient” people accept their feelings and take responsibility for their actions.

CreateSpace

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INTERVIEWS

“Your Level of Social Connection Affects Your Longevity”

This 19 min. read saves you up to 5 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 2 getAbstract summaries (one book with a total of 254 pages and one article) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 286 minutes (about 5 hours). Learn more.

“Your Level of Social Connection Affects Your Longevity”

Business author Michael Lee Stallard on how to maintain connections in our private and professional lives – and why the pandemic could improve our working relationships enormously in the long term.

“For Creativity and Innovation, Life needs Time and Space”

This 15 min. read saves you up to 7 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 2 getAbstract summaries (one book with a total of 332 pages) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 384 minutes (about 7 hours). Learn more.

“For Creativity and Innovation, Life needs Time and Space”

Companies are living systems, says management expert Michele Holliday. Cultivate the right conditions for growth and the whole will be more capable than the sum of the parts.

The World Post-Pandemic? It’s Not Going To Be What You Expect.

This 16 min. read saves you up to 8 hours

For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 4 getAbstract summaries (2 books with a total of 368 pages and 2 articles) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 426 minutes (about 8 hours). Learn more.

The World Post-Pandemic? It’s Not Going To Be What You Expect.

The “New Normal” has turned into the buzzword du jour. But is the world really going to settle into a new routine following the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic? Author and executive coach Paolo Gallo…

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VIRTUAL MEETING FATIGUE

VIDEO TALKS

BURNOUT PREVENTION

COPING WITH CHANGE

TWEAKS AND HABITS

COLUMNS

SOFT SKILLS

REVIEW

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Resilience

Micro-Resilience

Stronger

Grit

Option B

Emotional Habits