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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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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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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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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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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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