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?
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
Technology was supposed to make life easier. Instead, it’s draining our attention and creativity. Paul Leonardi is here to help you recharge.
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Your Attention Is Being Hijacked. Here’s How to Take It Back.
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
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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