• How to Achieve Psychological Safety
    This 4 min. read saves you up to 14 hours
    For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 3 getAbstract summaries (3 books with a total of 668 pages) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 798 minutes (about 14 hours). Learn more.
    How to Achieve Psychological Safety

    In four steps.

  • “We See Ourselves as Providing a Life Jacket in a Deluge of Information.”
    “We See Ourselves as Providing a Life Jacket in a Deluge of Information.”

    The longlist of the getAbstract International Book Award 2021 is here!

  • How to Reduce Complexity
    This 4 min. read saves you up to 81 hours
    For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 16 getAbstract summaries (15 books with a total of 4045 pages and one article) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 4850 minutes (about 81 hours). Learn more.
    How to Reduce Complexity

    We often make complex things even more difficult by the way we deal with them. Here's how to change that.

  • How to Maximize Your Time, Creativity and Performance at Work
    This 5 min. read saves you up to 20 hours
    For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 4 getAbstract summaries (3 books with a total of 992 pages and one article) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 1186 minutes (about 20 hours). Learn more.
    How to Maximize Your Time, Creativity and Performance at Work

    Work-life balance sounds like a lot, but it makes little sense. Here’s what you should strive for and practice instead.

  • Lessons from the “Einstein of Management”
    Peter Drucker, photo by Jeff McNeill (Wikimedia Commons)
    This 8 min. read saves you up to 49 hours
    For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 7 getAbstract summaries (7 books with a total of 2425 pages) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 2902 minutes (about 49 hours). Learn more.
    Lessons from the “Einstein of Management”

    How Peter F. Drucker revolutionized the making of leaders.

  • “Good Requires Motivation, Great Requires Obsession.”
    This 21 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 720 pages) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 843 minutes (about 15 hours). Learn more.
    “Good Requires Motivation, Great Requires Obsession.”

    Robert Bruce Shaw, author of All In, talks about the obsessions of some of the world’s most successful leaders, and the companies they built from those obsessions.

  • “Burnout Is Insidious: It Sneaks Up on You, Gradually Gnawing Away at You Over Time.”
    This 18 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 304 pages) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 347 minutes (about 6 hours). Learn more.
    “Burnout Is Insidious: It Sneaks Up on You, Gradually Gnawing Away at You Over Time.”

    Jacinta Jiménez, author of The Burnout Fix, on prevention, treatment and reintegration in case of burnout – a topic that still too few people talk about or act on.

  • “Pettiness Costs a Lot of Time, Money And Morale.”
    This 12 min. read saves you up to 13 hours
    For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 3 getAbstract summaries (2 books with a total of 642 pages and one article) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 759 minutes (about 13 hours). Learn more.
    “Pettiness Costs a Lot of Time, Money And Morale.”

    Alex Alonso, chief knowledge officer at SHRM, on the hidden costs of workplace niggles, what disasters can result from borrowing Kleenex tissues from the neighbor’s desk – and how to prevent all that from happening…

  • To Understand One of the Most Important Paradigm Shifts Ever, We Need a Radical Change of Mind-Set
    This 8 min. read saves you up to 8 hours
    For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 5 getAbstract summaries (one book with a total of 399 pages, 3 articles and one podcast) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 471 minutes (about 8 hours). Learn more.
    To Understand One of the Most Important Paradigm Shifts Ever, We Need a Radical Change of Mind-Set

    In contrast to classical physics, quantum theory – applied in physics, mechanics and biology – describes phenomena that are often counterintuitive to human thought. But the technology based on it will fundamentally change our world.

  • Rough Landings
    This 2 min. read saves you up to 26 hours
    For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 9 getAbstract summaries (6 books with a total of 1268 pages and 3 articles) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 1520 minutes (about 26 hours). Learn more.
    Rough Landings

    What a year and a half of home office has done to our physical co-working skills – and how we’re relearning them.