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Blog / ChangeThis
Establishing and Engaging a Remote Workforce
By Chris Dyer, Kim Shepherd
Not everyone can work successfully from home. If your company had a large number of employees start working from home in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, you probably discovered that it was easier for some than for others.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / Staff Picks
All the Lonely People
Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros
All the Lonely People is a heartfelt story of human friendship that will make any reader feel a little more hopeful about our divided society.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Talking to people you don’t know is one of the best ways to get the most out of every day and to form lifelong bonds of friendship and understanding.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / Staff Picks
"I Have Nothing to Hide": And 20 Other Myths about Surveillance and Privacy
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
The so-called “frictionlessness” of online life and commerce is being lubricated by us ceding our right to privacy, and it’s an increasingly slippery slope.
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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch | July 6, 2021
By Dylan Schleicher, Gabbi Cisneros, Emily Porter
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Book Giveaways
The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale
By Porchlight
In this compelling story of lies, greed and tarnished idealism, two Wall Street Journal reporters investigate a man who Bill Gates, Western governments, and other investors entrusted with billions of dollars to make profits and end poverty, but who now stands accused of masterminding one of the biggest, most brazen financial frauds ever.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Staff Picks
This is Your Mind on Plants
Book Review by Emily Porter
In his new book, Michael Pollan focuses in on three substances that alter human consciousness—opium, caffeine, mescaline—and takes us on a whirlwind exploration through his research on the plants that contain them.
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Blog / Staff Picks
Vessel: A Memoir
Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros
Through non-linear storytelling, Cai Chongda recalls his youth to young adulthood in 1980s China: his family, their homes, struggles with poverty and illness, his work and education, and the waves of Western influence on the village.
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Great Disconnect: How 24/7 Workplace Culture Is Making People Less Productive
By Jen Fisher, Anh Nguyen Phillips
Because we’ve adopted technology faster than we’ve adapted to it, we’re paying the price with our physical, mental and emotional health.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / Staff Picks
Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
The rocket scientists who figured out how to break us free from Earth’s gravity and get us to the moon usually get all the glory. Earl Swift tells their story, too, but goes beyond them to tell the tale of the engineers who made the final leg of the last three missions to the moon—aboard lunar rovers—possible.
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