Honestly, books are good and all, but I would try and build a network of one or two mentors.
I was always reluctant to ask people for mentorship or help, but when someone reached out to me for questions, I helped them immediately. I don't think I'm that much of an outlier in terms of helpfulness, so I'm sure other people are just as happy to help.
I would try and reach out to people whose business you admire but that aren't competitors. Make sure you close the loop and tell them how what you tried based on their advice, how you benefitted etc.
I often find myself disagreeing with HBR recently, and some of the articles don't even use reliable data. I feel it's a little above mainstream sources like Forbes/Business Insider.
There was some good stuff; it had the best explanation of the Business Model Canvas and how business models worked, but that's the one memorable thing I got from HBR. I'd say pick one of the others - I'd second the recommendation for Financial Times.
The Economist is fantastic for world news, especially for regions that go underreported in US media, but it doesn't sound like what you're looking for.
Before spending money on a subscription, buy an inexpensive notebook at the grocery store and use it to do pre-mortems, post-mortems, and to track your reasoning contemporaneously with your decision making. That will have a much bigger positive effect than simply receiving or even dutifully reading information from any of those sources.
And for one, Farnam Street essentially suggests doing the same thing.
I agree with this suggestion. Neither of the three listed will improve leadership or decision making skills; at best they'll inform you of what is currently going on, or might suggest some good books by referencing them.
A very similar approach to what parent suggests is in the book "How to Read a Book". It starts with explaining regular kinds of reading, and ends with synoptical reading - where you have to actually go and make a lot of effort to analyze, compare and contrast the current book with other stuff you have read.
Anyway, nothing grows soft and hard skills more than actually doing the legwork - just passivereading will not do much; active reading might help, but mixing reading with going out and actually doing stuff will help the most.
i subscribe to economist podcasts and occasionally read the print magazine. it doesn't improve my decision making skills or leadership, it is sometimes informative but mostly a form of entertainment.
Just read business books if you want to improve your decision making skills and leadership books, of course, network etc.
Those publications' content are ephemeral and age quite fast, you don't learn much that can help you develop over time.
Those subscriptions aren't very helpful on what you want to improve, they are good for you to understand the current economic scenario and new hypes and booms, and each have their own biases. I'd prefer HBR over the others.
They are also good for you to keep up on subjects so you can talk with other people that are business types.
Honestly, books are good and all, but I would try and build a network of one or two mentors.
I was always reluctant to ask people for mentorship or help, but when someone reached out to me for questions, I helped them immediately. I don't think I'm that much of an outlier in terms of helpfulness, so I'm sure other people are just as happy to help.
I would try and reach out to people whose business you admire but that aren't competitors. Make sure you close the loop and tell them how what you tried based on their advice, how you benefitted etc.
I often find myself disagreeing with HBR recently, and some of the articles don't even use reliable data. I feel it's a little above mainstream sources like Forbes/Business Insider.
There was some good stuff; it had the best explanation of the Business Model Canvas and how business models worked, but that's the one memorable thing I got from HBR. I'd say pick one of the others - I'd second the recommendation for Financial Times.
The Economist is fantastic for world news, especially for regions that go underreported in US media, but it doesn't sound like what you're looking for.
Before spending money on a subscription, buy an inexpensive notebook at the grocery store and use it to do pre-mortems, post-mortems, and to track your reasoning contemporaneously with your decision making. That will have a much bigger positive effect than simply receiving or even dutifully reading information from any of those sources.
And for one, Farnam Street essentially suggests doing the same thing.
I agree with this suggestion. Neither of the three listed will improve leadership or decision making skills; at best they'll inform you of what is currently going on, or might suggest some good books by referencing them.
A very similar approach to what parent suggests is in the book "How to Read a Book". It starts with explaining regular kinds of reading, and ends with synoptical reading - where you have to actually go and make a lot of effort to analyze, compare and contrast the current book with other stuff you have read.
Anyway, nothing grows soft and hard skills more than actually doing the legwork - just passivereading will not do much; active reading might help, but mixing reading with going out and actually doing stuff will help the most.
i subscribe to economist podcasts and occasionally read the print magazine. it doesn't improve my decision making skills or leadership, it is sometimes informative but mostly a form of entertainment.
The Financial Times
Farnam Street for sure.
Just read business books if you want to improve your decision making skills and leadership books, of course, network etc.
Those publications' content are ephemeral and age quite fast, you don't learn much that can help you develop over time.
Those subscriptions aren't very helpful on what you want to improve, they are good for you to understand the current economic scenario and new hypes and booms, and each have their own biases. I'd prefer HBR over the others.
They are also good for you to keep up on subjects so you can talk with other people that are business types.
Financial Times and NewYorker
HBR