Sat.Jun 01, 2024

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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2024

Michael McKinney

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2024 curated just for you. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month. On the Edge : How Successful Gamblers Think and What It Tells Us About Navigating Risk by Nate Silver In the bestselling The Signal and the Noise , Nate Silver showed how forecasting would define the age of Big Data.

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weekend open thread — June 1-2, 2024

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. Here are the rules for the weekend posts. Book recommendation of the week: I Hope This Finds You Well , by Natalie Sue. A not-well-liked office worker who sticks to herself accidentally gains access to all her coworkers’ emails.

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We Won't Be Happy WHEN. We Could Be Happy NOW.

Ed Batista

The truly awful thing about success is that it's held up all those years as the thing that would make everything all right. And the only thing that makes things even slightly bearable is a friend who knows what you're talking about. ~Eve Babitz [1] A theme in my work with senior leaders is the expectation that some future event will result in a profound surge in positive emotions and a sustained state of well-being, a process often described as "I'll be happy when.