Book Review by Taylor Berrett Small Steps, Extraordinary Outcomes We’ve all read the interviews of powerful, successful people. They breathlessly tell the story of the ‘big decision’ or ‘massive innovation’ they came up with, how
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Book Review by Andy Ghillyer Success – both personal and professional – can depend as much on mental ability as physical skills or innate talent. No matter what skill set or experience you bring to
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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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