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Forget the bucket list: Use 'time buckets' to plan a meaningful life
Draw a timeline of your life from now to the grave, then divide it into intervals of five or ten ye…
Bill Perkins
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A new book details how young people should go about finding work they truly love — and why they have more power than ever to do so
Read an excerpt from "Finding Work You Love: 3 Steps to Getting The Perfect Job After College" by U…
Kirk Snyder
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Businesses should reject special treatment from the government: Charles Koch says he made decisions that hurt his bottom line in the short term, but 'it was the right thing to do'
Advocating against corporate welfare requires you to be "the skunk at the garden party," according …
Charles Koch and Brian Hooks
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I worked in PR for over a decade before writing a novel. Skills like writing for executives actually helped make me a better novelist — here's how.
Rachel Beanland mastered the art of public relations before writing debut novel "Florence Adler Swi…
Rachel Beanland
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Most personality tests (like Myers-Briggs) are junk science and can make you cling to a label — instead, focus on making meaningful change
Here's what might happen when you take a type-based test seriously: You adopt a label about yoursel…
Benjamin Hardy
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I'm a sociologist who studies how police use data. Relying on algorithms can further bias and inequality — but it doesn't have to be that way.
"Police and reformers and abolitionists are all capable of presenting the same data in starkly diff…
Sarah Brayne
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You need to learn how to brag if you want to move up in your career — here are 2 easy ways to do it
Learning how to brag effectively helps you establish your own conversation, around yourself, your w…
Meredith Fineman
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Chronic overtalking can hurt your career. If you want to genuinely connect with people, master 'the pause.'
Steve Herz says he once chased away a client by talking too much — then this 7-second technique cha…
Steve Herz
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I've owned, improved, and sold hundreds of businesses successfully. Here are the 6 areas you should be focusing on if you want to sell your business at its maximum value.
If one of the 6 Ps — people, product, process, proprietary, patrons, and profits — is lagging, you'…
Michelle Seiler-Tucker and Sh…
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How to fix a toxic workplace, according to 2 leadership experts — including one who was brought in to repair Uber's culture
Frances Frei and Anne Morriss say it's key for executives to set their egos aside and welcome criti…
Frances Frei and Anne Morriss
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Stop taking a 'one size fits all' approach to managing your team. Here's how to better unlock each employees' potential.
Whether you're driven by building a better future or mastering a new skill, Todd Henry says knowing…
Todd Henry
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I wrote letters to my twins from pregnancy to five years old. They show how hard it is to 'have it all.'
In this excerpt from her upcoming memoir on motherhood, Majka Burhardt balances wooing investors wi…
Majka Burhardt
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I was overly aggressive when I interviewed with WeWork's Adam Newmann for the Meetup CEO role — and it paid off. Here's why I recommend all leaders negotiate every detail.
"Many leaders fail before they walk in their door," writes David Siegel, because they don't ask for…
David Siegel
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If you want a career you'll love, use this 3-step process before sending in any more job applications
Amanda Nachman says to think of building your career like a long-term research project — make a lit…
Amanda Nachman
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I read an ex-Apollo partner's tell-all book about the inner workings of private equity and was perplexed and ultimately disappointed
Masters of private equity always beat the markets because they have a winning mindset, argues the a…
Jonathan A. Knee
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My single mother was a wandering musician. I felt most at home while camping on the outskirts of Alaska's many music festivals.
The author says that she grew up wandering from music festival to music festival and that she would…
Keema Waterfield
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The dramatic untold story of what happened inside Apple after Steve Jobs died and Tim Cook and Jony Ive took over is told in a new book
More than 200 current and former Apple execs were interviewed for Tripp Mickle's "After Steve: How …
Jonathan A. Knee
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Immigrants walk a tightrope between two cultures. That's especially true for parents.
The author, who has lived in the US for most of her life, talked to other immigrant parents about a…
Masha Rumer
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JetBlue chairman Joel Peterson reveals the 3 mantras to follow that'll quickly turn you into a better and more reliable leader
Joel Peterson says former Harvard Business School roommate Ray Dalio mastered the most important qu…
Insider Inc.
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Streaming services battling to compete with Netflix are spending a lot of money, very badly, a new book says
"Binge Times" goes behind the scenes of the video streaming wars and media companies' urgent effort…