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10 GOOD READS EXPAND YOUR SKILLS, GAIN INSIGHT, AND GET INSPIRED WITH THESE TOP PICKS. The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing By Merve Emre Offices and organizations around the world have made use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator since its precepts were first published in 1944. But while the name is instantly recognizable, the story of its creators—Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers—is considerably more obscure. In e Personality Brokers, author Merve Emre tells their tale of this mother-daughter team of "devoted homemakers, novelists, and amateur psychoanalysts." Learn how the pair's expansion upon the works of Carl Jung ballooned into a worldwide phenomenon, with Emre's book drawing from both "original reporting and never- before-published documents." The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future By Ryder Carroll After more traditional systems of organization failed him, author Ryder Carroll simply created his own. In this guide to his popular "Bullet Journal" system, Carroll serves as your guide through a system designed to minimize distractions and focus on "intentional living." As the book description puts it, "It's about spending more time with what you care about, by working on fewer things." e Bullet Journal Method strives to help readers keep clear, concise records of their thoughts, organize their schedules in productive ways, and transform goals into actionable steps that can help transform them into reality. Big Debt Crises By Ray Dalio As the world marks a full decade since the 2008 financial crisis, investor and author Ray Dalio explores the inner workings of debt crises—what causes them, how to anticipate them, and how best to navigate them when they arrive. In Big Debt Crises, Dalio dives deep into the cyclical template he believes underlies most debt crises, presenting examples reaching back to the 1930s' Great Depression and beyond. In his "Compendium of 48 Cases," Dalio examines the worst debt crises of the past 100 years, with an eye toward the most important lessons we can take away from each. Leadership in Turbulent Times By Doris Kearns Goodwin What are the qualities that truly make up a good leader? Ask a dozen people and you'll get a dozen answers, but in Leadership in Turbulent Times, biographer and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin narrows her field of inquiry to merely four such leaders—four American presidents. e Pulitzer Prize-winning Goodwin examines the lives and legacies of Presidents Abraham Lincoln, eodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson, exploring how these men became the leaders history has marked them as in the years since their times in office.