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Book Preview: #1 The first thing that greets you when you get to the office on Monday morning is a desk covered in things, things, and more things! Piles of documents, random paper clips, unopened letters delivered who-knows-when, and a laptop plastered with sticky-note reminders.
#2 Clutter is bad for business as well as individual productivity. It can be solved by tidying up.
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#1 Bullying at work is when a worker is subjected to repeated, health-harming mistreatment by one or more of their colleagues that takes the form of verbal abuse, conduct or behaviors that are threatening, intimidating, or humiliating, and/or sabotage that prevents work from getting done.
#2 The workplace is a prime location for targets to be bullied. The resources of...
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#1 Lisa worked for Company A for 18 years, and then she moved to Company B. She spent two years there, and then she met her manager, who was extremely hierarchical and severe.
#2 Lisa spent months researching a company before she decided to leave her job and join another. She was excited about the company's Core Values, but she quickly realized that they weren't being...
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#1 The carpenter was sitting on a sidewalk in Midtown Manhattan with his buddies, half a dozen subcontractors in hard hats sipping their coffees before the morning shift got started. The crane fell directly across a busy intersection and the police shut it down, snarling traffic in all directions.
#2 The author was a medical student when she was assigned to autopsies....
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Get the Summary of Bill Burnett & Dave Evans' Designing Your New Work Life in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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In Designing Your New Work Life, Burnett and Evans show us how design thinking can transform our present job, and how it can improve our experience of work in times of disruption. All disruption is personal, write Burnett and Evans, as with the life-altering global pandemic...
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#1 FAs are using a new technology, called Next Best Action, to improve their services and provide better outcomes for their clients.
#2 FAs are using a new technology called Next Best Action to improve their services and provide better outcomes for their clients.
#3 FAs are using a new technology called Next Best Action to improve their services and provide better...
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#1 The goal of clear communication is not to be clear, but to be effective. You won't be able to take action on the information if it is unclear or irrelevant to the subject.
#2 To get action from busy people, your writing must cut through to the heart of the matter. It must require a minimum of time and effort on the reader's part. The importance of this increases with...
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#1 The unwritten rule about time applies to just about everyone, from administrative assistants to the senior leadership. With the exception of salespeople, who either deliver their numbers or don't, most people are judged by a mixture of results and time spent in the office.
#2 When we try to live our lives under the new set of demands but under the old set of assumptions,...
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Get the Summary of John M. Gottman & Nan Silver's The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work (1999) draws on data from relationship studies and interviews to do exactly what it promises in its title. These blinks take you through the key changes you can make to overcome the common problems that damage...
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Get the Summary of Michael Hyatt & Megan Hyatt Miller's Win at Work and Succeed at Life in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller know we can do better because he's seen it in his more than four decades as a successful executive and a loving and present husband and father. Today Michael and his daughter, Megan Hyatt Miller, coach leaders to live the double...
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Book Preview: #1 The Burning Man festival, which is a temporary community in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, is a social experiment in which money is forbidden and extreme creativity is celebrated.
#2 The world was thrown into a state of disruption in 2020, and leaders had to adapt. The practices Keith and Kian had been recommending to executive teams for years suddenly...
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Get the Summary of Dan Miller & Dave Ramsey's 48 Days to the Work and Life You Love in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "48 Days to the Work and Life You Love" by Dan Miller and Dave Ramsey challenges the traditional view of work as a burdensome necessity, advocating for a career that aligns with one's passions and talents. The book emphasizes that financial gain and job satisfaction are not mutually exclusive and...
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Get the Summary of Matt Ridley's How Innovation Works in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. Forget short-term symptoms like Donald Trump and Brexit, it is innovation that will shape the twenty-first century. Yet innovation remains...
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Get the Summary of Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson's It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Fried and Hansson have the proof to back up their argument. "Calm" has been the cornerstone of their company's culture since Basecamp began 20 years ago. Destined to become the management guide for the next generation, It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work...
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Get the Summary of James Suzman's Work in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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To answer these questions, James Suzman charts a grand history of "work" from the origins of life on Earth to our ever more automated present, challenging some of our deepest assumptions about who we are. Drawing insights from anthropology, archaeology, evolutionary biology, zoology, physics, and economics, he...
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#1 I was the new leader of an Internet startup called GreenLight. com. I had consumed enough wine to dull the sharp edge of the emotional pain and stress that were cutting into me. I didn't know where to turn, and for every raindrop that spattered against my window, I had a question running through my mind.
#2 I was determined to make the right choice, and the right...
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#1 The human energy body is the underlying subtle energy template of your physical body. It is important to have energy, as it helps you become a healthier and more dynamic person. The more vital energy you have, the more alive you become on every level.
#2 The human energy body is a complex, multilayered structure that overlays the physical body like a template. It...
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Get the Summary of Laszlo Bock's Work Rules! in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Drawing on the latest research in behavioral economics and a profound grasp of human psychology, Work Rules! Also provides teaching examples from a range of industries-including lauded companies that happen to be hideous places to work and little-known companies that achieve spectacular results by valuing...
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Get the Summary of Eyal Press's Dirty Work in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the "kill floors" of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of the United States' most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary...
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Book Preview: #1 We're taught from a young age that there's a right way to do things: get good grades, go to college, choose a career path, start a business, collect a steady paycheck, and upsize our spending as our pay increases. But life doesn't have to go that way.
#2 Retirement is a loaded term that is filled with imagery of sipping an umbrella drink on a beach. But in reality,...
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