Editor's Choice
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Editor's Choice
Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil
By Dylan Schleicher
Being able to frame the problems we face as sentient beings in an often hostile world has been a key ingredient in human evolution, and may still be the most important ability we have today.
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Editor's Choice
Big Little Breakthroughs: How Small, Everyday Innovations Drive Oversized Results
By Dylan Schleicher
We are all figuring things out as we go along to some extent, and that is a good thing. The more we realize this and embrace it, the easier it is to develop a creative process that leads to small wins and the ability to build on one toward the next to make big change.
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Editor's Choice
You Are What You Risk: The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World
By Dylan Schleicher
Michele Wucker's new book on risk ranges from how it defines our personal identity to international policy and diplomacy. Beyond understanding risk on a personal, an academic, and even a geopolitical level, what I think readers will be left with is a better understanding of the topic that Wucker ultimately
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Editor's Choice
Listen Like You Mean It
By Dylan Schleicher
Learning to listen more empathetically to others could make all the difference—for our organizations, our individual work, and in our personal lives. We simply learn more when we listen more, and it is the best way to form the kind of connections we all crave.
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Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
By Dylan Schleicher
Alec MacGillis's new book on Amazon is not a company narrative as much as it is a narrative of how one company has altered the landscape, often literally, of American life.
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Editor's Choice
Engine of Inequality: The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America
By Dylan Schleicher
In turning from analysis to advocacy, Karen Petrou shows us how the fight against inequality can be won much more quickly—on terms we should all be able to agree on—than we might imagine.
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Mutualism: Building the Next Economy from the Ground Up
By Dylan Schleicher
Sara Horowitz's new book is based on an idea that is as old as humankind, and a tradition that is so entrenched in our country that we don’t even notice it. But it is still going strong even if it has been eroded. It is the idea of an “economic system of mutual obligation.”
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Editor's Choice
The Six New Rules of Business: Creating Real Value in a Changing World
By Dylan Schleicher
The idea of “what’s good for business” is changing. The “walls between business and society” that kept companies shielded from a full accounting of their effect on society while maintaining an outsized influence over it, are crumbling. The “core assumptions and dominant beliefs” of business are slowly
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Editor's Choice
The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
By Dylan Schleicher
There is a lot of disinformation out there, but there is also a lot of good information provided by hard-working individuals dedicated to providing good numbers for us to base big decisions on. Tim Harford helps us identify the difference.
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Editor's Choice
Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
By Dylan Schleicher
" An award-winning psychologist reveals how to overcome the negative voice in your head and go from inner critic to inner coach."