Review by Taylor Berrett The subject of ethics gets a bad reputation in many circles. It’s considered the domain of lofty philosophers, professors, and thinkers that’s divorced from the real world the rest of us
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Creating the Aspirational Economy
Review by Taylor Berrett The relationship between consumers and brands has never been as challenging to navigate as it is now. In the past, brands could present their customer-facing products and imagery and get away
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The Power of Gratitude and Human Connection
Book Review by Taylor Berrett The idea that employees should be treated like human beings doesn’t seem particularly revolutionary today, but the truth is that companies focusing on the rights and wellbeing of workers is
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Face the Future with Confidence
Book Review by Taylor Berrett For a book featuring the subtitle “How to Navigate the Future,” Margaret Heffernan’s engaging and enjoyably rambling book, Uncharted, spends a great deal of time chronicling history’s failed attempts to
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Book Review: Thinking, Fast and Slow
A Mind-Bending Approach to Thought What is 2+2? The answer that comes immediately to mind is, of course, 4. What is 17 x 24? We can arrive at the answer, but only after a little
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Achieve Audacious Business Goals
Book Review by Taylor Berrett Can you master the business world the same way a chess grandmaster develops total control over the chess board? According to Patrick Bet-David and his book, Your Next Five Moves:
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Use ‘Futuring’ to Deal with Hyperchange
Book Review by Taylor Berrett If you’re most intrigued by How to Future: Leading and Sense-Making in an Age of Hyperchange thanks to its high-profile authors, you’re not alone— and you’re certainly justified. Both Scott
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Doing Well with Money is About Behavior
Book Review by Taylor Berrett Much has already been written about the way people think about, understand, and handle money and wealth. It’s a rich psychological well to draw from, and it’s also vitally important—
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The Unorthodox Culture that Drives Netflix
Book Review by Taylor Berrett You would be hard-pressed to find a more famously successful company than Netflix over the last decade. Not only did they revolutionize the movie and series rental industry, essentially invent
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Expert Communication and Persuasion Tactics
Book Review by Taylor Berrett While Trey Gowdy isn’t the first author to connect courtroom strategies to improved communication in business and everyday life, he might be one of the most engaging. His book, Doesn’t
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Using Facts to See Positivity in the World
Book Review by Kristen Cudd In 2005, Hans Rosling, his son Ola Rosling, and his daughter in law Anna Rosling Rönnlund founded the Gapminder Foundation whose mission is “to fight devastating ignorance with a fact-based
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Personal Transformation Is at Your Fingertips
Book Review by Kristen Cudd Most of us view our personality as the “real and authentic” version of ourselves. We believe that personality is something that we are born with and it cannot be changed.
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Foster a Culture of Integrity at Work
Book Review by Kristen Cudd When opening a meeting for a group of fifty new hires, general counsel of Airbnb, Robert Chestnut, always asks the same seemingly simple question: “Show of hands—who in this group
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