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Our Newest Recommendation
5 Ways to Make Learning Core to the Way We Work
Audiobook
Make continuous learning part of your company’s DNA – and growth, profits, and sustainability will follow.
Keeping up with the pace of change may seem impossible, but it’s not. The secret is to make continuous learning a top value for every person on the team so when change happens, everyone is prepared.
The book is a wonderful look at how the world of work is changing, and that demands a more dynamic organization that is learning-centric.
Our Recommendation of Last Week
Time Management in 20 Minutes a Day
Audiobook
Simple Strategies to Increase Productivity, Enhance Creativity, and Make Your Time Your Own
No-nonsense time management in no time.
Learning to manage your time doesn’t have to take a lot of time. Filled with practical advice for everybody, Time Management in 20 Minutes a Day makes increasing your productivity and getting the most out of every day a snap.
Sprinkled with bite-sized lessons and personal anecdotes, Time Management in 20 Minutes a Day introduces strategic changes geared to help you improve your daily life. From obsessing over emails to hunting through clutter to mismanaging meetings – learn how to stop doing all the little things you didn’t even realize were wasting so much of your time.
Our Recommendation of Two Weeks Ago
(it has been so popular!)
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
Audiobook
From Wharton professor Ethan Mollick, author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter, comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI.
Something new entered our world in November 2022—the first general-purpose AI that could pass for a human and do the kinds of creative, innovative work that only humans could previously do. Wharton professor Ethan Mollick immediately understood what ChatGPT meant. After millions of years on our own, humans have developed a co-intelligence that could augment or even replace human thinking.
Must-read for any worker concerned about AI – and any worker not concerned but should be!
This should be required reading for any organization rolling out AI tools. It is very well-written and easy to read.
A simple, direct, even folksy explanation of AI usage and the future. Full of useful insights on using the AI of today.
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Time Blocking: Destroy Procrastination
Get More Done and Feel Great About It
At its core, time blocking is a potent scheduling tool that, when properly set up and adhered to, can change the direction of its wielder’s life. This system has largely gone under the radar despite being used by many famous figures who are well known for their insane levels of productivity.
If you have heard of it before, it may have been under one of its many names, such as time blocking, boxing, chunking, or batching.
Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
Nobody ever looked at an empty calendar and said, “The best way to spend this time is by cramming it full of meetings!” or got to work in the morning and thought, Today I’ll spend hours on Facebook! Yet that’s exactly what we do. Why?
In a world where information refreshes endlessly, and the workday feels like a race to react to other people’s priorities faster, frazzled and distracted has become our default position. But what if the exhaustion of constant busyness wasn’t mandatory? What if you could step off the hamster wheel and start taking control of your time and attention?
That’s what this book is about.
Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind
Are you over-extended, over-distracted, and overwhelmed? Do you work at a breakneck pace all day, only to find that you haven’t accomplished the most important things on your agenda when you leave the office?
The world has changed, and the way we work has to change, too. With wisdom from 20 leading creative minds, Manage Your Day-to-Day will give you a toolkit for tackling the new challenges of a 24/7, always-on workplace.
How much of your time and attention lately has been focused on things that truly matter to you?
Most people’s honest answer is not enough.
Everyone is buried by busy work, responsibility, distraction, and fatigue.
The joy-producing, difference-making ideas are waiting for the right time: when the current project is over, when they have a little more money, when the kids are grown, or when they get a more understanding boss. They are waiting for someday.
The trouble is someday never comes on its own.
Start Finishing presents a nine-step method for converting an idea into a project by addressing your challenges and getting the project on a reality-based schedule.
After dedicating years to studying the psychology and philosophy of well-being and publishing his first book, Ryan A Bush’s struggle with mental health led him to develop an innovative psychological theory. “Become Who You Are” proposes that true happiness stems from the positive qualities we see in our actions rather than relying on external factors like pleasure or pain, loss or gain.
Upskilling for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Are you ready to compete in the world of AI, Machine Learning, Big Data, and more?
Our world is dynamically changing to accommodate rapidly evolving economies; we are breezing past the industrial age like it never existed. Automation is taking over, and technology undoubtedly lights the path to our future. How well-equipped are young professionals and mid-career veterans to keep up with this pace?
It is a great book full of insights on how and what to prepare for the careers of the future.
The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment (Management on the Cutting Edge)
In his bestselling first book, Eric Siegel explained how machine learning works. Now, in The AI Playbook, he shows how to capitalize on it.
The greatest tools are sometimes the hardest to use. Machine learning is the world’s most important general-purpose technology—but it’s notoriously difficult to launch. Outside Big Tech and a handful of other leading companies, machine learning initiatives routinely fail to deploy, never realizing value.
What’s missing? A specialized business practice suitable for wide adoption.
In The AI Playbook, bestselling author Eric Siegel presents the gold-standard, six-step practice for ushering machine learning projects from conception to deployment.
ChatGPT Money Machine 2024: The Ultimate Chatbot Cheat Sheet to Go from Clueless Noob to Prompt Prodigy Fast!
Complete AI Beginner’s Course to Catch the GPT Gold Rush Before It Leaves You Behind
Enter ChatGPT—arguably the biggest tech revolution since the Internet—and it’s here to redefine how businesses and individuals interact.
This isn’t just another tech trend; it’s a paradigm shift.
People use it for everything, from customer service automation to content creation and even mental health apps.
But most importantly, they’re making a killing doing it.
Brimming with punchy, practical ideas to improve your day-to-day effectiveness, Chris Watson’s Upskill: 21 keys to professional growth is the definitive guide to developing the adaptive skills essential for success at work.
No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving – every day. James Clear, one of the world’s leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.
One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated listeners for nearly three decades.
It has transformed the lives of presidents and CEOs, educators, and parents.
Learn how to overcome anxiety, self-doubt & self-sabotage without needing to rely on motivation or willpower.
In this book, you’ll discover the root cause of all psychological and emotional suffering and how to achieve freedom of mind to effortlessly create the life you’ve always wanted to live.
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This book is a great lesson on perseverance. Align yourself with subjects that you are naturally interested in and then persevere, that’s a recipe for success.
Communication is a superpower and the best communicators understand that whenever we speak, we’re participating in one of three conversations: practical (What’s this really about?), emotional (How do we feel?), and social (Who are we?). If you don’t know what kind of conversation you’re having, you’re unlikely to connect.
Change Your Mindset To Achieve Success:
The Ultimate Guide to Eliminate Self-Doubt, Build Confidence, and Turn Your Dreams Into Reality
Overcome your fears and rebuild your self-confidence – the power to achieve your goals and create the life of your dreams lies in your mind.
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The Best Class You Never Taught: How Spider Web Discussion Can Turn Students into Learning Leaders
The best classes have a life of their own, powered by student-led conversations that explore texts, ideas, and essential questions. In these classes, the teacher’s role shifts from star player to observer and coach as the students
- Think critically
- Work collaboratively
- Participate fully
- Behave ethically
- Ask and answer high-level questions
- Support their ideas with evidence and
- Evaluate and assess their own work
Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making
Contending that the ability to “earn” understanding will equip students to thrive in school, work, and life, the authors highlight seven higher-order thinking skills that facilitate students’ acquisition of information for greater retention, retrieval, and transfer.
Teaching for Lifelong Learning: How to Prepare Students for a Changing World
Develop students into curious explorers and independent thinkers. With Teaching for Lifelong Learning, you will discover a lifelong learning approach to education and key goals for educational success. Explore many practical ways to improve instruction, assessment, and curriculum that will empower students to thrive in the classroom today and deftly navigate an uncertain and changing world.
Design a practical curriculum!
Stop Overthinking: 23 Techniques to Relieve Stress, Stop Negative Spirals, Declutter Your Mind, and Focus on the Present
Stop Overthinking is a book that understands what you’ve been through, the exhausting situation you’ve put yourself into, and how you lose your mind in the trap of anxiety and stress.
Acclaimed author Nick Trenton will walk you through the obstacles with detailed and proven techniques to help you rewire your brain, control your thoughts, and change your mental habits.
Here are some interesting, useful, and thought-provoking
books on the topic of Healthcare.
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation
into our dysfunctional healthcare system – and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems.
Americans have been made to accept paying more for less. How did things get so bad?
A New York Times Bestseller
Basic Medical Language with Flash Cards E-Book, 7th Edition
Build the foundation you need to communicate confidently within the world of healthcare. Healthcare has its own special language, and if you work in or are involved with healthcare, it is important to learn the basics of this fascinating and special language.
Basic Medical Language, 7th Edition makes it easy to master the medical terminology
needed for success in the health professions. This concise text helps you learn and recognize hundreds of medical terms by introducing the suffixes, prefixes, and combining forms used in building words.
Beyond the Walls: MegaTrends, Movements and Market Disruptors Transforming American Healthcare
The American healthcare system is failing us. It is a frustratingly complex, opaque, and
unaffordable system that results in suboptimal care and a deterioration of the welfare of
the majority of American families. The experience of the past few decades and the recent
ravaging pandemic has shown us that doing more of the same is not going to deliver us from
this dilemma.
But there is hope.
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