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Your Advice Isn’t Helping
In The Advice Trap, Michael Bungay Stanier makes a strong case as to why advice doesn’t do what it should. Read more to find out a better way.

Three Tips on Choosing More Wisely
Want to be more decisive? Design an effective process to keep your emotions in check.

3 Ways to Work Yourself Out of a Job
Ready to move on? Lining up your successor is the best way to leave. Here are some ideas to help you do that.

Want to Become a Better Leader? Take Cooking Classes.
In Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain shares his life’s culinary journey. If you look closely enough, you’ll find some useful insights on effective leadership.

What Goes into Asking a Powerful Question?
Asking powerful questions improves your leadership ability and strengthens your relationships. Here are some tips on how to do this well.

Do You Think Boundaries Are Protective or Restrictive?
In Boundaries, Henry Cloud and John Townsend show how boundaries are necessary and beneficial.

War, sharks, and torture: A saga of forgiveness
In Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand shares the saga of Louis Zamperini, whose story feels too crazy to be true.

Five principles in choosing great over good
A lot of things are important, but only a few are essential. In Essentialism, Greg McKeown shows us how to not only distinguish between the two, but to live out the latter.

Four Tips When You Encounter Pushback
In Switch, the Heath brothers talk about ways to overcome internal and cultural resistance when you’re ready to make a change.

Three thoughts on problem prevention
What if there were a way to never have pandemics again? This requires a new level of thinking discussed in Upstream.

Three ways to expand your thinking
Until you focus on opportunities and possibilities, don’t expect anything to happen. Change starts in your head before it can show up anywhere else.

Five ways to turn up your charm level
Learn how to develop charisma, which isn’t as elusive as you may think.

What if your help isn’t really helping?
No good deed goes unpunished, especially if your work keeps people from getting better on their own. In When Healthcare Hurts, learn how international clinics can cause more problems than they solve.

Four tips for working well with introverts
In Quiet, Susan Cain talks about her life experience as an introvert and its inherent advantages.

Five steps to clearer communication
What you say might not be what people are hearing. The Four Conversations will help you bridge that gap.

Three tips when you know you have to cut bait
As much as you may want to “grit,” sometimes you have to know when to quit. In Necessary Endings, Dr. Cloud helps us figure out how to decisively quit when appropriate.

Four insights on grit from an ISIS rape survivor
In The Last Girl, Nadia Murad shares her story in the fight against ISIS.

Stop using carrots and sticks. Use these instead.
In “Drive,” Dan Pink suggests the best motivators are found within us, not outside of us.

Four principles for burnout recovery
In Breaking and Mending, Joanna Cannon walks us through her medical school journey and recounts how she reignited her passion for patient care.

Can a Sherpa help you lead better?
Learn how a Sherpa can improve your ability to lead in The 100X Leader.
Getting promoted can feel like you’re finally heading to the greener side of the fence. Until you realize that you’re just getting started with a different set of challenges. But take heart! Even if you’re not able to coast like you thought you would after getting the pay bump, new title, and bigger desk, the promotion is still a blessing. Read the full post to learn how.