• “It Helps People Communicate, It Helps Reduce Conflict, and It Helps to Drive Innovation.”
    This 5 min. read saves you up to 5 hours
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    “It Helps People Communicate, It Helps Reduce Conflict, and It Helps to Drive Innovation.”

    Simon Brown, author of The Curious Advantage and chief learning officer at Novartis, explains the superpower that lies dormant in all employees, but is organizationally discovered only in a few: Curiosity.

  • Virtual Meeting Marathons Make You Sick
    This 4 min. read saves you up to 44 hours
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    Virtual Meeting Marathons Make You Sick

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

  • “Structure Begets Flexibility.”
    Cal Newport / Penny Gray Photography
    This 15 min. read saves you up to 6 hours
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    “Structure Begets Flexibility.”

    We're drowning in emails, text messages, and more and more new collaboration tools. Cal Newport advises organizations to pull the emergency brake now.

  • “The Genie Is Out of the Bottle”
    This 6 min. read saves you up to 5 hours
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    “The Genie Is Out of the Bottle”

    Co-founder of Centric Consulting and management expert Larry English on why “hybrid” work solutions – where employees work from home at least part time – are here to stay.

  • “Go Watch Your People!”
    Donald H. Taylor
    This 10 min. read saves you up to 5 hours
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    “Go Watch Your People!”

    Donald H. Taylor on the results of the latest Learning and Development Global Sentiment Survey, and what matters now if you want to properly upskill and reskill in your organization.

  • #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.

  • “Being Open and Agile Is the One Vital Skill for the 21st Century”
    Henna Inam / transformleaders.tv
    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.

  • “People Thoroughly Underestimate the Importance of Body Language in Virtual Communication.”
    Richard Newman / borntospeak.com
    This 8 min. read saves you up to 5 hours
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    “People Thoroughly Underestimate the Importance of Body Language in Virtual Communication.”

    The virtual work environment requires a new set of communication skills. Award-winning communication expert Richard Newman explains how to captivate an online audience.

  • “Hybrid Work Structures Are Here to Stay”
    This 8 min. read saves you up to 6 hours
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    “Hybrid Work Structures Are Here to Stay”

    Author and technology expert Phil Simon opens our eyes to the underused potential of new collaboration technologies that will make work processes more transparent and efficient.

  • Tough Fellas
    This 10 min. read saves you up to 115 hours
    For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 20 getAbstract summaries (19 books with a total of 5720 pages and one article) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 6854 minutes (about 115 hours). Learn more.
    Tough Fellas

    Anyone who runs a company today has to take care of good relations, an inclusive corporate culture and all sorts of compliance issues. But he or she also has to be able to make tough…