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Understanding Users’ Needs: Make Their Lives Easier

How should technology make life easier? What do you need to do to understand users’ needs? When you’re creating any type of product dealing with technology, the first thing you need to consider is how it’ll make life easier for the user. In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant explain in detail how this is made possible using user-friendly design. Continue reading to learn more about how you should create a product centered around a user’s needs.

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

What are the secrets to being successful in your career? How do you build a world-changing product-based business? Entrepreneur Tony Fadell answers these questions and more in Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making. The book is part career encyclopedia and part memoir, detailing Fadell’s journey building the iPhone and starting Nest, a smart home device company. Keep reading for an overview of this interesting and instructive book.

Mania’s Surprising Role in Leadership and Innovation

How can leaders be more innovative at work? How does mania improve innovative thinking? Leadership and innovation go hand-in-hand, but an unexpected factor in this connection is mania. The mental illness promotes creative thinking, supporting new ideas, and solving complex problems that may go unnoticed. Here’s more on why A First-Rate Madness by Nassir Ghaemi believes mania enhances your ability to be an innovative leader.

3 Common Business Problems & How to Navigate Them Wisely

How long does it take to find the right investors? How do you maintain personal well-being when leading a business? Why should you memorialize business catastrophes? No matter how well your launches go, you’ll likely face challenges in your business. Serial entrepreneur Tony Fadell recommends strategies for three common business problems: a lack of funds, a lack of work-life balance, and catastrophes. Continue reading to learn how to navigate these challenges and come through as a stronger leader with a stronger business.

The Future of Design: What’s Next for Tech?

What are the main issues with technology today? What does the future of design look like? Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant’s book User Friendly contends that technology has become inhumane and addictive. The authors provide two main recommendations to achieve a future vision of a user-friendly world: Streamline many of the gadgets in people’s lives and design technologies that adhere to users’ values. Keep reading to learn what the future of design should look like to enhance people’s lives.

Unraveling the Iskandar Project: Jho Low’s Web of Deceit

How was Jho Low involved with the Iskandar project? Was Low successful with his scheme? In the book Billion Dollar Whale, Tom Wright and Bradley Hope chronicle the story of Jho Low, a Malaysian entrepreneur who allegedly stole billions of dollars from his government’s coffers. One of his schemes was the Iskandar Project, a plan to develop a financial center in Malaysia’s Iskandar region. Read on to learn about Low’s involvement with the Iskandar project, according to Wright and Hope.

How to Use Your Strengths: 4 Actions Leaders Should Take

Are you struggling as a business leader? How do you use your strengths to lead your team to victory? In The Way of the Seal, Mark Divine says that business leaders must adopt a SEAL mindset to navigate the challenges of the modern work world. He examines four actions you can take to identify and tap your inner strengths so you can operate at your highest level. Here’s how to use your strengths to become a powerful leader.

Untreated Mental Illness: A Leader’s Recipe for Disaster

How can an untreated mental illness impact a leader’s role? What effect does proper treatment have on your work? In A First-Rate Madness, Nassir Ghaemi argues that the manner in which you treat mental illness can affect leadership abilities. Proper treatment can enhance positive traits while improper treatment can impair crisis decision-making. Learn how crucial mental health treatment is for leaders in important positions.

The Way of the Seal by Mark Divine: Book Overview

What is The Way of the Seal by Mark Divine about? What are the main takeaways of the book? In The Way of the Seal, retired Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine discusses modern work world challenges that resemble a SEAL battlefield. He also provides strategies to identify your values, focus on your goals, embrace uncertainty, and harness your mental strengths. Read below for a brief overview of The Way of the SEAL.

Why the Cybersecurity Industry Is Short by 700,000 Workers

What’s behind the cybersecurity industry worker shortage? Why is it a problem? What can be done to fix it? In the second quarter of 2022, fifty-two million data breaches occurred globally. But at a time when the cybersecurity industry has its hands full, it also finds them tied: More than 700,000 cybersecurity positions are unfilled across the US and by 2025, there will be enough vacant jobs to fill 50 NFL stadiums. Below, we’ll examine why there’s a cybersecurity industry worker shortage and what can be done about it.