Editor's Choice
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Editor's Choice
Worn: A People's History of Clothing
By Dylan Schleicher
Sofi Thanhauser has compiled a social history of five materials—Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool—explaining not only how we have shaped them, but how they have shaped us.
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Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World
By Dylan Schleicher
Peter Goodman takes a close look at the robber barons of the modern era, explaining how they have grabbed the gains of globalization and profited off the pandemic, undermined working people, economic stability, and even our very democracy in the process.
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Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men
By Dylan Schleicher
Katrine Marçal's new book shows us how gender bias has determined what technologies we have built, and even what we consider to be technology, undermining our ability to reach our full potential as human beings. It continues to be the case today, and it has never been as important as it is now to upend our ideas around gender to build a more balanced and sustainable world.
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Editor's Choice
Move: The Forces Uprooting Us
By Dylan Schleicher
Parag Khanna reminds us how "management guru Peter Drucker warned us that 'the greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence itself but to act with yesterday's logic.'" Accordingly, he offers us updated logic on how we might move about the world.
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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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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 uncovers—reality.
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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.