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6 GOOD READS EXPAND YOUR SKILLS, GAIN INSIGHT, AND GET INSPIRED WITH THESE TOP PICKS. My Morning Routine: How Successful People Start Every Day Inspired By Benjamin Spall and Michael Xander Rituals and habits can be powerful things. In My Morning Routine, authors Benjamin Spall and Michael Xander reveal the morning habits of powerful people, and how they help those power- players become focused and ready to tackle the day's challenges. A mixture of instruction manual and interview collection, My Morning Routine picks the brains of 64 of today's most successful people, including Olympic gold medalist Rebecca Soni, Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone, fitness guru Jillian Michaels, Pixar/Walt Disney Animation Studios President Ed Catmull, and General Stanley McChrystal. e book also helps guide readers through the steps of creating their morning rituals to get them centered, focused, and inspired for the day. "Just as a Jenga stack is only as sturdy as its foundational blocks, the choices we make throughout our day depend on the intentions we set in the morning. Like it or not, our morning habits form the stack that our whole day is built on." Factfulness: Ten Reasons Why We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think By Hans Rosling, with Anna Rosling Ronnlund and Ola Rosling It's easy to get overwhelmed by the state of the world and determine that things are only getting worse. Factfulness attempts to push back against this easy path by pointing out that—objectively— things are getting better, in many different ways. In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his long-time collaborators Anna and Ola, explores the all-too-common phenomenon of people holding strong opinions about topics where they don't know the facts. ey offer up to 10 instincts that can distort our perspective when it comes to hot-button topics, from "us and them" mentalities to media consumption habits to how we perceive progress. "But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts," reads the book description, "we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most." How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job By Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith If you're ready to take the next step in your career but aren't sure how, How Women Rise could provide the guidance you need. Leadership expert Sally Helgesen and bestselling leadership coach Marshall Goldsmith have teamed up to bring their years of experience training thousands of high achievers to bear on problems faced time and again by women in the workplace. In How Women Rise, Helgesen and Goldsmith explore the thesis that often the very skills and habits that help women break into their industry can later hamper them from advancing up the ladder. e authors delve into subjects such as learning how to do less and delegate more, how to take credit when you deserve it, and how to make the best use of networking connections. e writers break their advice down into 12 different habits that hold women back as they seek advancement and promotion, and how to overcome them. Storynomics: Story- Driven Marketing in the Post-Advertising World By Robert McKee and Tom Gerace Robert McKee has become a phenomenon in writing circles, hosting successful writing workshops and penning bestsellers on the craft such as his 1997 tome Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting. Now McKee has turned his expertise in spinning a yarn toward the world of marketing, teaming up with digital marketing expert and Skyword CEO Tom Gerace to explore how organizations can revitalize their advertising philosophy by tackling problems from a storytelling approach. "Drawing from dozens of story- driven strategies and case studies taken from leading B2B and B2C brands, Storynomics demonstrates how original storytelling delivers results that surpass traditional advertising." With McKee also hosting tie-in seminars in cities such as Los Angeles, New York City, Moscow, Beijing, and Boston, Storynomics reveals how "to succeed in an increasingly ad-free world, marketers have to put story at the center of their strategies. Yet, there is still a misunderstanding about what story is and how to use it effectively."

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