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A Q&A with Meng Jin

By Meng Jin, Emily Porter

Meng Jin graces us with her second book, Self-Portrait with Ghost, filled with stories about understanding the self, the aftermath of grief and the oddities of, well, life.

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Batja Mesquita in Conversation with Sally Haldorson

By Sally Haldorson, Batja Mesquita

We invite our reading community to come along as we take a deeper look at Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions and learn more about author Batja Mesquita through this live-streamed interview.

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Susan Cain in Conversation with Sally Haldorson

By Emily Porter

We invite our reading community to come along as we take a deeper look at Bittersweet and learn more about author Susan Cain through this live-streamed interview.

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Katherine May in Conversation with Sally Haldorson

By Emily Porter

We invite our reading community to come along as we take a deeper look at The Electricity of Every Living Thing and learn more about author Katherine May through this live-streamed interview.

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Thinker in Residence: Debbie Millman

By Sally Haldorson

Debbie Millman is President of the design division at Sterling Brands. She has been there for 18 years and in that time she has worked on the redesign of over 200 global brands, including projects with P&G, Colgate, Nestle, Kraft and Pepsi. She is President Emeritus of AIGA, the largest professional association for design in the world.

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Nicholas Carr

In The Glass Cage Nicholas Carr asks us to reconsider how automation is affecting how we experience our life and work.

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A Q&A with Jacob Morgan

"Everyone always talks about the customer but in my opinion change must start from the inside first. . .

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Jacob Morgan

"[M]ost organizations and managers today focus on the amount of time that employees appear to spend doing something and not on what they actually produce. This has to change. Just because employees are “putting in hours” doesn’t mean anything.

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Thinker in Residence: A Q&A with Ryan Holiday

"Our perceptions and inner dialogue determine to a large degree what what we are capable of. And if they push us towards acting instead of passivity, it becomes a feedback loop that becomes easier over time. " ~Ryan Holiday

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Thinker in Residence: A Q&A with Warren Berger

By Sally Haldorson

"We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn’t encouraged—it is barely tolerated. " ~Warren Berger