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Why caring for your team could lead to your company’s success
Despite its unremarkable start and relative obscurity among hotpot restaurants in Sichuan, Haidilao has emerged as a success story closely studied in advanced business courses, including at the Harvard Business School. Haidilao's unique management philosophy has...
Does the end of the pandemic mean the end of reading?
2020 was a terrible year for travel – but great if you were a content creator or digital media producer. With countries slowly going into lockdown across the globe due to the pandemic, most of us found ourselves at home with nothing much to do. In such a scenario,...
A Simple Guide on How to Pick Your Next Book
In this age of endless content, deciding what you want to spend your attention on can be hard. Even if you've made a decision (and in this scenario, we mean "enjoy reading a book"), the next big choice you have to make would be what you should read. This paralysing...
What We Can Learn from Untranslatable Words
Although English is spoken by almost 1.5 billion people across the globe, there are many concepts and phenomena that elude the English language. Look up ‘untranslatable words’ and you may find the often-cited piece of trivia that Inuits have at least 50 words for...
What Elon Musk Teaches Us about Reading
If you’ve spent any time online over the past month, you would probably have seen many discussions around Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and his declaration to purchase Twitter. One of the reasons that Musk has given for this purchase is his criticism of the lack...
How Reading Can Help You Find Your Dream Job During the Great Resignation
A term that swept through social media in 2021 was "the Great Resignation". Originating in the USA, the Great Resignation describes the phenomenon of an increased number of employees resigning from their jobs, sometimes regardless of whether they had another job...
The Power of Summaries: Supercharge Your Learning
If you're reading this on the NexPage blog or our Medium page, there's probably no need to expound on the benefits of reading. You're probably well aware of the many ways reading helps to strengthen our minds. Pithily summarised by 17th century-English essayist and...
Why TL;DR is an unstoppable trend
In 2013, Instagram has video of 15 seconds over Vine’s 6 seconds. In 2015, Finimize was founded to give the TL;DR of financial advice, tips, stories and news for investors. Today, on Facebook, you get the TL;DR of any movie as a video summary rampantly circulating...
Not Another Book Summary App
“Do you know how many book summary apps are there in Apple and Google Play Store?”, a friend asked. I frowned at that question because I knew what was coming next. “Well, too many” I didn’t count. But in preparation for this post, I’ve decided to do a quick listing by...
Riding the Asian Wave
Can you name the top ten best-selling books from Asia? If you are struggling with the answer, fret not. You are not alone. There has always been an imbalance of content between English and the non-English world. For example, it took three years for Harry Potter to be...