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Latest Read: The Growth Mindset Workbook

The Growth Mindset Workbook: CBT Skills to Help You Build Resilience, Increase Confidence, and Thrive through Life’s Challenges by Elaine Elliott Moskwa with a forward by Carol S. Dweck

The Growth Mindset Workbook by Elaine Elliott-Moskwa

Elaine holds a PhD and did postdoctoral work at the Harvard School of Education. She trained in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) at the University of Pennsylvania. She helped to establish the CBT training program at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Currently, she is president of the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies.

A certainly important follow up book to Carol Dweck’s breakthrough work. This is a well received workbook providing great lessons to embrace personal growth. This workbook holds clear and actionable exercises based upon Elaine’s work as a student of Carol and clearly excels at Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

There is a mix of theory and actionable hands-on activities. This is based upon step-by-step guidance for shifting from a fixed to a growth mindset. Elaine is focusing on sustaining a growth mindset even when setbacks naturally develop. This should be recommended for anyone seeking to deepen self-awareness and develop lifelong mental skills. However to be fair Elaine is acknowledging this is not a substitute for clinical mental health treatments.

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Latest Read: How to Become Famous

How to Become Famous: Lost Einsteins, Forgotten Superstars, and How the Beatles Came to Be by Cass R. Sunstein

How to Become Famous: Lost Einsteins, Forgotten Superstars, and How the Beatles Came to Be by Cass R. Sunstein

Cass holds a AB and JD from Harvard. He is currently a professor at Harvard and was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School for 27 years. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School.

How to Become Famous investigates mechanisms behind why certain individuals, groups, or works become famous while others, in fact superior in quality or talent are overlooked and even forgotten.

Clearly Cass is not focusing on a step-by-step guide to achieving fame, it is in fact exploring unpredictable and often times arbitrary forces that result in fame and fortune and those who fade into obscurity.

Cass is revealing the role of luck actually serendipity. It’s the fact that talent and resilience were always important but simply not enough to achieve fame and fortune. Rather its about being in the right place at the right time: chance or having the right connections.

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Latest Read: Autonomous Transformation

Autonomous Transformation: Creating a More Human Future in the Era of Artificial Intelligence by Brian Evergreen

Autonomous Transformation: Creating a More Human Future in the Era of Artificial Intelligence by Brian Evergreen

Brian holds a BA in Music Theory from Azusa Pacific University. He has written fro VentureBeat and Fast Company. He is currently CEO of The Future Solving Company.

We are now seeing the impact of AI’s transformational capability with project management. So, how will organizations fundamentally shift as a result of AI data? This is a rather interesting look at any complex organization, and how organizational leadership and employees with over a decade of experience pull back from change. Are organizations in fact prepared to handle this change?

Autonomous Transformation is addressing the idea that AI can create efficient change, yet not be perhaps ready to address the shift required by organizations without a practical framework. Brian is providing a blueprint for organizations that understand the potential AI can today create new value for internal stakeholders and their employees.

Perfect for executives, directors, managers, and other business leaders, Autonomous Transformation will also earn a place for anyone who finds themselves doing their best to navigate an increasingly complex and nuanced digital and economic landscape.

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Latest Read: The Effective Hiring Manager

The Effective Hiring Manager by Mark Horstman.

The Effective Hiring Manager by Mark Horstman

Mark is a graduate the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he studied mechanical engineering. He served as an Officer in the U.S. Army for five years, where he developed leadership skills and gained valuable experience in managing teams. Following his service, he worked at Proctor & Gamble and as a recruiter.

Mark is a co-founder of Manager Tools, a management consulting and training firm that provides resources and training for managers in Fortune 1000 companies globally for more than 30 years. He also hosts the popular Manager Tools podcast, which offers practical advice on management skills and techniques.

This is the second book by Mark that I have read in my current role. Mark is delivering the key essentials in hiring and team-building. Managers, new or seasoned will understand his step-by-step approach to make strategies easy to implement. Hiring effectively is without a doubt the most important and long-term contribution any manager will deliver to their organization. Mark is right on target with his message that “the only thing worse than having an open position is filling it with the wrong person.”

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Latest Read: The New Dark Age

New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future by James Bridle.

The New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future by James Bridle

James holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from University College London. He is a contributor to Wired, The Atlantic, and The Guardian. He remains an Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.

So, does the creation of massive data sets make the world better? Perhaps not according to James. It would appear the data models in use are not sufficient anymore. In some cases the algorithms are revealing bias and lack of transparency by vendors.

As a result, James takes a position that even with Big Data accessible to more and more people, we are living in a new dark age. Hence the title of his book.

In general James is acknowledging how recent technology has led to the concentration of wealth to a small group of individuals and key corporations. As a result our social inequalities continue. He position includes the idea that data is no longer about facts alone but is now embedded into our current social conditions.

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