• Job Crafting: Take Charge
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    This 7 min. read saves you up to 66 hours
    For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 18 getAbstract summaries (13 books with a total of 3290 pages, 4 articles and one video) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 3941 minutes (about 66 hours). Learn more.
    Job Crafting: Take Charge

    Job crafting means proactively shaping your job to enhance your well-being. Although the concept has been around for a while, the pandemic has given it new relevance. Part I of this two-part series looks at…

  • How to Incorporate Your Successor…
    This 4 min. read saves you up to 40 hours
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    How to Incorporate Your Successor…

    …Without Embarrassing Yourself

  • “You Have to Reach People Emotionally”
    This 10 min. read saves you up to 5 hours
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    “You Have to Reach People Emotionally”

    York von Heimburg has been working on the topic of virtual team leadership for many years. He knows what’s essential – and what mistakes to avoid.

  • How to Motivate the People You Lead
    This 10 min. read saves you up to 112 hours
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    How to Motivate the People You Lead

    Misconceptions about motivation abound. Let’s take them on.

  • Awards, Rewards, Hogwarts
    This 8 min. read saves you up to 128 hours
    For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 26 getAbstract summaries (22 books with a total of 6380 pages and 3 articles) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 7648 minutes (about 128 hours). Learn more.
    Awards, Rewards, Hogwarts

    The mechanisms of internal talent development and recognition are as diverse and varied as their demonstrable effects. What really works? And which “strategies” are a case for the storybook?

  • Companies and Vaccination
    Companies and Vaccination

    The question of the vaccination status of colleagues receives ever greater attention and importance. How do companies deal with the new situation?

  • Persistence Is Key
    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…

  • A Year in Interviews: Part II
    This 7 min. read saves you up to 40 hours
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    A Year in Interviews: Part II

    getAbstract was honored to speak to a number of renowned authors and thought leaders this year. Here are some of the insights we gleaned from a year in author interviews.

  • “Your Level of Social Connection Affects Your Longevity”
    Michael Lee Stallard
    This 19 min. read saves you up to 5 hours
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    “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.

  • COVID-19 Vaccine: What’s Next?
    COVID-19 Vaccine: What’s Next?

    Things are moving fast on the vaccine front. But what does that mean for you and me?