• “Every Working Relationship Gets Banged, Cracked, Dented and Bruised at Some Stage.”
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    “Every Working Relationship Gets Banged, Cracked, Dented and Bruised at Some Stage.”

    And yet, argues bestselling author Michael Bungay Stanier, you can take preventive action to ensure that this doesn’t leave lasting damage. Here, he explains what matters in the process.

  • “People Are Angry Because They Feel Their World Views and Values Are at Stake.”
    This 10 min. read saves you up to 5 hours
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    “People Are Angry Because They Feel Their World Views and Values Are at Stake.”

    How can people find each other in an increasingly fragmented society? Sociologist Michael Carolan says: through experiences.

  • #gettogether: How to Build Resilience
    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 a Difficult Meeting/Confrontation
    This minute read saves you up to 5 hours
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    #gettogether: How to Manage a Difficult Meeting/Confrontation

    In this episode, we welcome getAbstract’s International Book Award 2020 recipient Veronika Hucke to lay out practical tools for using challenging conversations as opportunities for growth.

  • How to Deal with Political Discussions in the Workplace
    This 6 min. read saves you up to 116 hours
    For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 23 getAbstract summaries (21 books with a total of 5761 pages and 2 articles) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 6908 minutes (about 116 hours). Learn more.
    How to Deal with Political Discussions in the Workplace

    In functional democracies, political discussions among citizens are a regular part of interpersonal exchange. That this causes problems in the workplace is a topic as old as democracy itself. But how about solutions?

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    Photo by Omid Armin on Unsplash
    The Current Iran Crisis Has Been Long in the Making

    And it will remain a hot issue in the foreseeable future. Here is why and what might happen next. 

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    Photo by Martin Sanchez on Unsplash
    Books of the Year 2019

    Invisible women, 25 pairs of shoes, and the long-awaited end of unnecessary meetings – here are this year’s reading recommendations from different departments at getAbstract.