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43 Best Leadership Books to Skyrocket Your Career

Miles Anthony Smith

Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't Author Simon Sinek pulls from the leadership methods used by military generals to pull teams together in his book, "Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't."

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What’s the Purpose of Companies in the Age of AI?

Harvard Business Review

While there has been a lot of discussion about “what’s left for humans?” This notion that a firm has a social quality — a purpose or identity — that goes beyond its economic raison d’etre is well established in the literature, from March and Simon through to Kogut and Zander.

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Staying Human in the Robot Age

Harvard Business Review

In a society “where money trumps human well-being and where any price, maybe even lives, is paid for status and success,” in Jeff Pfeffer’s words , technology all too easily institutionalizes dehumanization and makes it normal. To give of their best, humans need to focus, tackle one thing at a time, and reflect deeply.

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