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45 Professional Development Books to Level Up Your Career and Your Life

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In a world with countless ways to level up your professional development, books are one of the most underestimated tools. Professional development books give insight on how to grow in our careers, grow as people and better approach work-related challenges, shifting work environments and new opportunities.

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Matt Richtel’s New Book Explores the Emotional Balance Between Creativity and Stability

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In brief, the idea is that new forms of life and new ideas are almost always destined to fail. When viruses or bacteria mutate by accident, and when new combinations of cells emerge inside our bodies, these cells almost always die because they don’t fit as well into the environment as the forms of life that came before.

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Is the Home Office Era Fading into a Hybrid Horizon?

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What’s going on: More business leaders and companies are updating work environment policies to encourage employees to return to office work, typically in the form of hybrid work. The number of desk bookings is also reported to have experienced an uptick. This sentiment can actually be backed up by data.

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The Heliotropic Effect: The Power of Extending Kindness and Authenticity to Everyone In Your Path

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Fellow University of Michigan alumni, psychologist and executive coach, Dr. Harry Cohen, simplified it further: “Be the sun, not the salt,” a mantra that became the title of his new book. Salty behavior comes in different forms, and it’s the subtle ones that are probably the most damaging because we think they don’t matter.

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Biophilic design has a long history and an even bigger future

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But perhaps nobody can top that of Erich Fromm, the sociologist and psychoanalyst who first described it in his 1973 book The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness as “The passionate love of life and all that is alive”. The term biophilia was later popularised more dryly in a 1984 book by the biologist Edward O. The plans for the $2.5

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Rachel Ceruti Is Curbing Environmental Waste By Upcycling Clothes

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Growing up, Rachel Ceruti had an appreciation for the environment, but she didn’t consider herself an environmentalist nor had she started upcycling clothes. As textiles break down in landfills, which can take anywhere from a couple of months to 200 years, they are emitting greenhouse gases that are impacting our environment.”

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How to Talk to Your Boss About Race: A New Book Explores Language Used in the Workplace and How We Can Improve

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It’s one thing to read a definition of racism in a book, and quite another to know if you currently work in an environment that is racist. These slights can take the form of offhand comments, jokes, backhanded compliments or insults. It can take the form of microaggressions or just plain aggression. Intersectionality.

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