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Blog / Staff Picks
Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
At a time when so many of us have allowed our focus and relationships to become unidimensional, in orbit around our work, Rob Cross offers a framework that focuses us back on our fuller lives. And that may be exactly what we need to be happier and more productive at work.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Virtue of Equity
By Minal Bopaiah
Equity in the workplace is about designing a system, a culture, or an organization so that everyone has an equal shot, however they may define what they are shooting for. Moreover, equity gets us out of the hard work of constantly going against the system by creating a system that makes it easy to opt in to inclusive and equitable behaviors
Categories: changethis
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Blog / Staff Picks
You Are What You Click: How Being Selective, Positive, and Creative Can Transform Your Social Media Experience
Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros
This new book shows that the answer is not swearing off technology, but learning how to use social media without letting it use you.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch | September 7, 2021
By Dylan Schleicher, Gabbi Cisneros, Emily Porter
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Book Giveaways
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
By Porchlight
A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors—experts who have worked at ground zero of the tech revolution for decades—that reveals how Big Tech’s obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed fundamental human values and demands that we change course to renew our democracy and save ourselves
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Staff Picks
Windswept : Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women
Book Review by Emily Porter
Annabel Abbs looks at walking with a feminist's eye, writing about Simone de Beauvoir, Nan Shepherd, Frieda Lawrence, Georgia O’Keefe, and many more who walked and found inspiration that deeply impacted their lives.
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Reading List
Book Review by Lauren Kohlenberg
This novel evokes the magical feeling that arises when you enter a book-filled space. It tells of the power of a community space, the impact of found family, and the reach of a carefully crafted story.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
There are so many things to learn—about Wall Street, about short selling, about social media’s growing influence on investing, about the gamification of trading—in the individual stories Ben Mezrich tells and how they connect to one another. But the real magic is in the writing itself.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Three Pressure Traps
By Dane Jensen
How we navigate pressure in key moments and over the long haul has a huge impact on the trajectory of our life and how much we enjoy the journey.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch | August 31, 2021
By Dylan Schleicher, Gabbi Cisneros, Emily Porter
Categories: new-releases