Book Review by Taylor Berrett Every day, our lives are filled with conversations. These conversations define our lives, from the interactions we have with strangers to the connections we share with our closest friends, loved
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Discover Breakthrough Growth at Work and in Life
Book Review by Taylor Berrett In The Clarity Field Guide, authors Benj Miller & Chris White set out to provide a step-by-step instruction manual for increased clarity in life and business. In the book’s introduction,
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Become a More Confident Decision-Maker
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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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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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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Learn How to Change Anything
Everyone has something they want to change. Marketers want to change their customers’ minds, and leaders want to change organizations. Startups want to change industries, and nonprofits want to change the world. But change is
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One is the Key to Others
by Ken Shelton Virtually all meaningful interactions in any field are one on one—either virtual/vicarious or up-close and personal. If you are not relating one on one, you may be one and done or one
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Prevent Problems Upstream Before You Have to Deal with Them Downstream
Book Review by Andy Ghillyer The increasing sophistication of systems technology is giving businesses access to more data on their operations than ever before. But the majority of those businesses use that data to react
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Measure Your Strategic Progress
by Margaret Reynolds How do you monitor and measure the progress of your strategic initiatives and projects? Remember that confidence in decision making comes from having reliable data, and that includes data that keeps you
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The Secret to Maintaining Organizational Viability in the Age of Disruption
by Tanner Corbridge In rapidly evolving markets, calculated risk-taking is the secret to boosting innovation, adapting at speed, and maintaining long-term organizational viability. Today’s marketplace is characterized by rampant disruption, spurred by technological advancements, globalization,
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Decision-Making Advice from Champions of the Sports World
When the pressure is on, great coaches remain laser-focused, confident, and fully in charge of their roster. They’re the same way when it comes to developing strategies and game plans to succeed. They always win
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