The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Here are the ten most downloaded titles for the year. 1 Number one is not a surprise because you may hardly remember an annual top list that was not headed by the 7 Habits. Its decades of popularity sometimes make you wonder: Is anyone left on the planet who doesn’t know (or at least downloaded) […]

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Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol Or: It’s Never Too Late to Start Over Do you look at yourself in the mirror and not like what you see? Do you wish you had a closer relationship with your children or loved ones? Do you feel you spend too much of your energy on pursuits that don’t […]

Trust is the lubricant of the new world of work, says Stephen M.R. Covey – but if you really want to bring your organization forward, you have to be an inspiring leader and put purpose into action. Here, he explains how to do that. Stephen, for decades you have been dealing with trust in organizations […]

Work-life balance sounds like a lot, but it makes little sense. Here’s what you should strive for and practice instead. No matter your job title or company, it is safe to say that work has gotten more stressful. This is because our managers and colleagues expect us to be on all of the time, whether […]

A list of some of getAbstract's most actionable summaries for tackling a specific challenge.

What has been the most useful summary this year, and why? What has been the most useful summary this year, and why? We asked our customer success managers, sales representatives and company executives this very question. As a small “thank you” to our getAbstract Journal readers, we are making the top five recommendations available to […]

Enthusiasm is catching. Use it to motivate teams to high performance. Coordinating teams to focus on a goal follows the same general processes that setting and executing personal goals follow: Aim high.   Set measurable goals with intermittent milestones.   Focus on consistently achieving the small steps it takes to accomplish something big.   Big goals inspire, but […]

Here is how to provide great care and acquire new customers in a remote setup. Due to the tense economic situation, many existing customers are saving, and not-yet-customers are even harder to persuade to buy. Nevertheless, sellers who currently must work from their own living room should not give in right away. Not only is […]

Now is the time to evaluate what you have learned under the extraordinary pressure of the last weeks – and use that knowledge to influence the future of your organisation. For some people “New Work” simply meant the physical transformation of work. The digitalization of a lot of processes made it possible to free the […]