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What are the best hiring criteria for recruiters to follow? Should you look for the best of the best in your line of work? Most companies get skilled employees by identifying the most talented workers in their industry and stealing them away from other companies. However, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson advise against doing this. Check out below what Fried and Hansson recommend doing instead.
What’s the timeline of Britney Spears’ key events in her life? How did she go from a small-town girl to the biggest pop star in the world? Spears’s life story includes sadness and success. But despite the depth of her darkest moments, she insists the bad times don’t diminish the happiness she’s found through her music and raising her children. Let’s follow Britney Spears’s timeline through several key periods of change in her life.
What are the effects of aging on body systems? How do stem cells affect your body’s health? When body processes become less effective with age, the changes can wreak havoc. In Ageless, Andrew Steels looks at three systems where this loss of effectiveness does a lot of harm: your stem cells, your immune system, and your microbiome. Let’s take a better look at these effects of aging on the human body.
What’s managerial decision-making? How do you know if you’re making the right decision for the organization? It’s management’s role to make decisions based on issues affecting the whole organization. In The Essential Drucker, Peter Drucker asserts that at the executive level, managers should devote their time to making strategic, broad-ranging decisions, not solving low-level problems. Continue reading to learn what it takes to make managerial decisions.
What’s the brief history of Amazon? Where did Bezos come up with the idea of Amazon? Bezos’s story is the story of Amazon, the business he founded in 1994. Though Bezos doesn’t take all of the credit for the company’s success, it was he who shouldered the risk of creating an online retail store in a decade. Let’s break down Amazon’s history, from its beginnings in a garage to hurdling through the Covid-19 pandemic.
Who is Sam Bankman-Fried? How did he make his money? How did he lose it? In just a few years, Sam Bankman-Fried went from being a relative nobody to the architect of a cryptocurrency empire whose net worth neared $30 billion. But, even quicker than his empire burst onto the scene, it crumbled. Continue reading for an overview of Michael Lewis’s Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon.
What are the benefits of self-confidence? How does having self-confidence impact you? Among the benefits of self-confidence is the ability to make meaningful life changes that stick. When you have more confidence in yourself, you have a better chance of succeeding when you try to make a change. Continue reading to learn how self-confidence can help you succeed at your goals.
What are some common responses to trauma? What can we learn from a deep dive into the effects of childhood trauma? Responses to trauma vary depending on the associations you make surrounding the traumatic experience. By looking at an example of this, we can see how trauma impacts behaviors. Read on to learn about how the brain forms associations with trauma via this case study.
What false beliefs do customers often hold? What’s the best way to address their concerns? When you sell to a large audience, how should you adjust your presentation? Selling to a big crowd is not the same as selling to an individual or small group. Russell Brunson shares tips on adjusting your techniques in a way that leverages the differences associated with a large audience. Continue reading to learn Russell Brunson’s “10x secrets.”
What if economists collaborated with psychologists and sociologists? How could they benefit from spending more time on social media? In Narrative Economics, Robert J. Shiller argues that human beliefs and actions, rather than numbers and statistics, ultimately drive economic outcomes. From this perspective, he suggests that we adopt new approaches that broaden our understanding of economic events and help us make better predictions. Read more to learn about Shiller’s proposed narrative-based economic forecasting methods.