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How to Stop Negative Self-Talk from Running Your Team Oct 28, 2025

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Every leader knows that as tough as it can be to manage others, the real challenge is managing yourself — your insecurities, your bad habits, your distracted thoughts. That’s why corporate consultants Suzy Burke, Ryan Berman, and Rhett Power have written a new book called Headamentals: How Leaders Can Crack Negative Self-Talk that helps you learn how to lead, starting with that most important workplace of all — the one inside your head.

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Stop Trying to Optimize Your Life Oct 27, 2025

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Not every decision can be reduced to data. In Choose Wisely: Rationality, Ethics, and the Art of Decision-Making, Barry Schwartz and Richard Schuldenfrei argue that wisdom begins where the algorithm ends.

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Are You Cult Curious? Oct 24, 2025

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Amanda Montell shares five key insights from her 2021 book Cultish.

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If the Economy’s So Good, Why Do We All Feel So Broke? Oct 23, 2025

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The problem isn’t you: it’s the data. Gene Ludwig reveals how America’s economic scorecards mask widespread struggle.

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Digital Exhaustion: How to Reclaim Your Energy in an Always-On World Oct 22, 2025

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Technology was supposed to make life easier. Instead, it’s draining our attention and creativity. Paul Leonardi is here to help you recharge.

Your Attention Is Being Hijacked. Here’s How to Take It Back. Oct 21, 2025

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Does this sound familiar: You sit down to do some real focused work, and within minutes you’ve checked your phone, opened three browser tabs, and mentally planned your lunch — all without realizing it. Our attention doesn’t just wander anymore. It’s being quietly, relentlessly pulled apart by a world designed to fragment it, and most of us have forgotten what real focus even feels like. Zelana Montminy is a behavioral scientist who advises Fortune 500 companies and her new book is called Finding Focus: OwnYour Attention in an Age of Distraction.

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How to Build a Company That Lasts 100 Years Oct 20, 2025

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How do you build a company that lasts? It’s certainly not easy. About half of all small businesses fail within five years, and even large companies struggle to make it to the decade mark. So how do some businesses last for generations, even centuries? According to Eric Becker (The Long Game), founder and chairman of the wealth management firm Cresset, those companies, which he calls Centurions, have figured out how to play the long game.

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What Kind of Mood Are You In? Oct 17, 2025

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Check out these big ideas from the 2020 book The Book of Moods: How I Turned My Worst Emotions Into My Best Life by Laura Martin.

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The World’s Changing Fast. Here's How to Keep Up. Oct 16, 2025

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It’s easy enough to celebrate “disruptive” technologies, but all that disruption can have a real human cost. Job loss, anxiety, environmental fallout — every major shift creates winners and losers. But today’s author says the upsides may be worth the turmoil. Scott D. Anthony is a clinical professor of strategy at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, and in his new book, Epic Disruptions, he looks back at the biggest technological upheavals in history — from the printing press to AI — to uncover patterns that can help us not just survive disruption, but thrive in it.

The Simple Formula for a Longer, Healthier Life Oct 15, 2025

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Dr. Tom Frieden has spent his career on the front lines of public health, from leading the CDC during the Ebola crisis to running New York City’s Health Department. Now, as head of Resolve to Save Lives, he’s written The Formula for Better Health. Here’s the key idea: most of the health tragedies we fear — heart attacks, strokes, many cancers — are avoidable.

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