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THIS MONTH'S PAGE-TURNERS ON BUSINESS AND BEYOND
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Whether you’re leading a several-thousand-person company, tucking your children into bed at night, or managing both, this edition of Readers & Leaders—McKinsey’s monthly newsletter on the books business leaders are reading—is for you. As the first month of the new year winds down, we look at how a cartoonist brought his children’s bedtime story to life, the best leadership insights gleaned from the world’s top CEOs, and the month’s bestselling business books, prepared exclusively for McKinsey by NPD BookScan. Itching for more good reads? Check out McKinsey on Books for the latest, and to get Readers & Leaders in your inbox monthly, be sure to click here to subscribe. | | |
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Return to whimsy. In a recent edition of Author Talks, we revisit our inner child with Tom Gauld, a comic artist who contributes to New Scientist, the Guardian, and the New Yorker. The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess (Neal Porter Books, August 2021), is based on a bedtime story that Gauld made up for his daughters and marks his first foray into children's books. The writer and illustrator of your child's next favorite fairytale reflects on what compelled him to test the waters in a new genre and how he adapted his approach to appeal to an entirely different audience.
“I knew that a children’s story couldn’t be as dry and maybe as subtle in the same ways as my adult cartoons. And the humor would have to be a different type of humor, which could be enjoyed by a small child as well as an adult. I had to find a way to warm up some of the coolness that is in my adult cartooning, without feeling like I’d poured a bucket of icing sugar over the top of it and without it becoming something saccharine and losing some of the charm that I hope is in my adult work.” Watch the full interview.
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Struggling to keep up with your new year’s resolutions? Bought a gym membership you haven’t used yet? No judgement here. Bettering ourselves is hard, and so are dumbbells, but you don’t need to break a sweat to strengthen your brain. Escape the end-of-January slump and learn something new with this month’s top business bestsellers in eight categories, prepared exclusively for McKinsey by NPD BookScan, and explore the full lists on McKinsey on Books.
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Povism (noun; POVE-ism): The frustration of being stuck inside your own head, unable to see your face or read your body language in context, only ever guessing how you might be coming across, which makes you think of yourself as a detached observer squinting out at a lushly painted landscape. But everyone else you’ve seen is woven right into the canvas. “Povism” is from point of view and ism. —From John Koenig’s The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (Simon and Schuster, November 2021), as featured in Author Talks: The made-up words that make our world | | |
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—Edited by Molly Liebergall, a digital editor in McKinsey’s New York office
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