Book Review by Taylor Berrett Making decisions. It’s something that each of us does hundreds or even thousands of times each day, but for all the practice we get we don’t seem to get much
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Creating the World-Class Organization of the Future
Book Review by Taylor Berrett Focus on business culture in the corporate world has exploded over the last decade. As startups transform entire industries and adopt radical and revolutionary business practices along the way, more
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An Unconventional Plan for Building a Business
Book Reviewed by Taylor Berrett Entrepreneurship has long been an essential keystone to the American dream, with motivated individuals throughout history deciding to pursue their business dreams and eventually achieving what none thought possible. But
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10 Secrets to Personal and Financial Freedom
Book Review by Taylor Berrett If there were ever a family that perfectly represented the dream that families everywhere have of working their way up to financial independence, it would be the Higdon family. Ray
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Technology’s Influence on Our Ethics
Book 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
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Creating the Aspirational Economy
Book 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
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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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