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The Giving Pledge Needs the Healing Oath

By Michael J Gelb

“Billionaires contribute to a diverse range of causes focused on alleviating suffering and elevating joy such as overcoming poverty, refugee aid, disaster relief, global health, education, women and girls’ empowerment, medical research, arts and culture, criminal justice reform, and environmental sustainability.

These

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A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Different

By Sunny Bonnell, Ashleigh Hansberger

“Instead of doing everything people told us we should be doing, we did the opposite. Instead of burying vices like our obsessive perfectionism, rebelliousness, and weirdness, we made them our selling points.”

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Overcoming Women’s Workplace Conflicts Because of Different Social Identities

By Andrea S Kramer, Alton B Harris

“Women with different intersectionalities are likely to have significantly different workplace experiences and encounter significantly different career obstacles. These differing experiences and obstacles are, in large part, due to the different stereotype-driven biases directed against them because

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Distracted: A Manual for Living a Creative, Productive, and Happy Life In the Digital Age

By Brian Solis

“Somewhere along the way, we got distracted. As much as we multitask, love our devices and feel like we’re in control, deep down we know that something is off. Shortened attention spans, declines in critical thinking, lack of sleep, self-doubt and decreased creativity are just some of the effects coming

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Mastering the Basics: Simple Lessons for Achieving Success in Business

"In every industry, we all face hurdles and obstacles as well as opportunities and potential for success. I found myself referring back to what I had learned through the years and stating again, this time to a new audience, the importance of mastering the basics."

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Having Said That: Business Clichés to Avoid Like the Plague

By Robert Spector

“Caught between a rock and a hard place, listening to your CEO’s dry-as-dust dogand- pony show, you resist checking your phone because you’re a team player in a well-oiled machine. But left to your own devices, your attention turns to Minecraft or Instagram when the boss declares, ‘We’re raising the

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Redesigning Business for a Democratic Economy

By Marjorie Kelly

"We find ourselves in a moment of breakdown—but also a moment of unprecedented opportunity. Even as widespread faith in the workings of our economy is falling apart, unsung innovations are quietly arising. Entrepreneurs, business executives, investors, and community leaders are choosing to 'get

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Nincompoopery: How to Find and Kill the Corporate Stupidity That Drives Customers Crazy

By John R. Brandt

"Why should our customers have to rekey their data multiple times to make a single purchase? Why are there four levels of approval just to order basic supplies? Why can't we get qualified candidates for open positions, or provide new employees with decent training? In short: How did we become such nincompoops?

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How to Reverse the Dismal Failure Rate of Digital Transformations

By Tony Saldanha

"Most digital transformations fail for two reasons: 1) their transformation strategy lacks clarity and 2) they don't choose the right processes for disciplined execution. In short, they fail at the where of digital transformation and the how. The roots of the first part of the problem—the where—lie

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It Is Your Right To Be Heard: Why Women's Voices Get Silenced and How to Set Them Free

By Veronica Rueckert

"The voice is an amazing gift, both a privilege and a responsibility. Using it takes courage, especially if you're a woman. We're given only a finite amount of time to figure out what it's for, to grow into ourselves enough that we can speak up when the time comes.

Yet a woman's right to speak