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Humanize is a guide to restructuring organizations based on the principles of social media. Authors Jamie Notter and Maddie Grant provide recommendations for overcoming hierarchical structures, disengaged employees, best practices, monoculture, risk, and formal processes to become more human. They advocate open internal and external communication, including uncensored use of social media. Organizations need to build open, honest relationships. Human organizations must learn how to become open, trustworthy, generative, and courageous.

Every day, people face decisions small and large that must be made without a clear picture of the risks involved. In Risk Intelligence, Dylan Evans provides the tools and techniques to make such decisions easier and more fruitful. It turns out that different people have different levels of risk intelligence (RQ), which explains why some people consistently make wise decisions while others always make bad choices. Some aspects of RQ might be innate, but Evans’s research into individuals and groups who are especially good at assessing risks shows that anyone can boost his or her RQ. All it takes is a commitment to assign numbers to possible outcomes and carry out some simple calculations. Evans also explains the road blocks that society and the brain put in the way of making such a commitment and provides ways to overcome them.