Speakers in the News: 1.1 - 1.5
Leigh Bureau speakers are always working on incredible things. Every Friday, we bring you a weekly roundup of the most impactful writings, releases, and appearances from our speakers.
Happy new year! We hope this newsletter finds you rested and rejuvenated, open to new and exciting work from our speakers, and ready to make 2024 a year to remember!
While we don't have a crystal ball to show you what lies ahead for 2024, we do have the next best thing—expert speakers who've shared their insightful forecasts.
Listen: The Money Ladies' New Year's guide to the 2024 economy featuring Rana Foroohar
Listen: What to Expect in 2024 (Honestly with Bari Weiss) featuring Tyler Cowen on economics and Nate Silver on the 2024 election
If one your 2024 goals is to boost workplace satisfaction and performance, both for yourself and the teams you lead, Optimal: How to Sustain Personal and Organizational Excellence Every Day should be next on your reading list. Out next week, Optimal uses decades of emotional intelligence research to help workers achieve peak performance every day and assist leaders in creating a culture where such a feat is possible. Be sure to tune in daily to the video series that co-authors Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss are producing to introduce key concepts from the book in the days leading up to its publication.
Another necessary book to help you achieve your 2024 goals is The Five Resets: Rewire Your Brain for Less Stress and More Resilience, the literary debut from stress expert Dr. Aditi Nerurkar, MD, MPH —which Malcolm Gladwell's Next Big Idea Club named a Must Read Book for January 2024. Dr. Nerurkar joined NPR this week to share five science-backed and easy-to-implement strategies for managing stress in the new year.
Trying to conflate all of these attacks together does no good because, in effect, what these right-wing activists are doing [is] trying to bait people in the academy into defending double standards, into appearing like hypocrites. And I think no one should take that bait. The only question should be whether or not this was actual misconduct.
There is much discussion surrounding the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay. Were her past instances of plagiarism enough to warrant her removal? Was she uniquely targeted because of her race, gender, and politics? Tom Nichols joined PBS NewsHour to share his insights on the matter.
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The big mistake here is in thinking of the federal government the way we think of our personal finances or an individual household.
Reports show the national debt has surpassed $34 trillion. Many are alarmed and calling for severe actions to be taken to reduce the deficit. Others are far less concerned, arguing this alarm has been sounded for decades and the always-impending disaster has yet to come to pass. Economist Stephanie Kelton joined NPR to share her insights on reframing our understanding of the national debt.
2023 was a massive year for artificial intelligence and we know there's tons more in store in 2024. We're proud to represent brilliant minds like Anima Anandkumar who are directly involved in the creation of our AI future. Her recap of her 2023 accomplishments in the AI space is nothing short of incredible.
Read: 2023 Research Highlights
Foreign Policy magazine has announced their Most Anticipated Books of 2024 and upcoming releases by two of our speakers made the list! Keep your eyes peeled for Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash From 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria (March 26) and New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West by David Sanger (April 16).
What matters is not whether, or even how quickly, we slip but what happens afterward.
To close out this New Year's edition of Speakers in the News, we'd like to revisit a piece from bestselling author Eric Weiner on rethinking New Year's resolutions, which have gotten a bad rap in recent years, as few new habits last beyond January. But Weiner makes the case that by accepting failure and redefining success, we can learn valuable lessons from our resolutions, even if we don't stick to them 100% of the time.
Thanks for tuning in this week. See you next Friday!