The Goodwill You Don't Know with CEO Steve Preston

Jack Canfield struck gold as a co-author of the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul book series, but it took years for him to achieve success. In The Success Principles, he details 67 principles to help anyone achieve their goals and dreams, based on his study and interviews with hundreds of successful people. The basic formula for success is to identify what you want, know that you deserve to have it, and use the book’s principles to get you there.

The book's Principles include taking responsibility for your life, setting goals and visualizing success, facing your fears, forgiving others so you can move forward, asking for and graciously receiving feedback, and appreciating your successes.

Wal-Mart is the largest retailer on the planet, exceeding $500 billion in sales and 12,000 stores worldwide. This retail titan began in 1945 with founder Sam Walton managing a single store in Newport, AR, a town of 7,000 people. In this small town, Walton learned the retail and management strategies that became the foundation of Wal-Mart’s staggering worldwide growth.

Sam Walton wrote his autobiography Made in America in the last year before he died, as he struggled with cancer. This book is a candid, energetic retelling of the Wal-Mart story and the principles that led Walton and his partners to incredible success. Learn what Wal-Mart did in its early life that every major competitor ignored, and how Sam Walton his competitors' best ideas—and did them better.

In their 2013 book Conscious Capitalism, co-founder and former CEO of Whole Foods Market John Mackey teams up with businessman Raj Sisodia to introduce an improved version of capitalism. Mackey and Sisodia argue that capitalism is inherently good for people, but conscious capitalism is even better because it benefits all interested parties—including the environment and society at large. According to the authors, conscious capitalism has the potential to unleash unprecedented human ingenuity and solve most, if not all, of the problems we face.

Our guide will cover the philosophy of conscious capitalism and how to practice it—by prioritizing a good cause over profits, practicing enlightened leadership and management, and ensuring that all interested parties benefit from doing business with your company. In our commentary, we’ll compare conscious capitalism with other economic systems, discuss business management advice from other authors, and explore examples of conscious capitalism in greater detail.

In Incognito, David Eagleman explores a disconcerting concept—that the vast majority of your brain activity is unconscious and outside of your control. Comprising the bulk of your mental activity, your unconscious mind creates your perception of reality, allows you to perform complex actions without thinking about them, and makes snap judgments and decisions you’re unaware of. Because of this, Eagleman challenges the assumption that humans have free will—which, he argues, opens up important questions about criminal justice and prisoner rehabilitation.

Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University and the co-founder of two companies, Neosensory and Braincheck. He also directs the Center for Science and Law, a nonprofit that applies principles of neuroscience to improve the justice system. Our guide to Incognito unpacks Eagleman’s ideas about consciousness and free will, looks at the research behind these ideas, and explores other perspectives on criminal justice.

In this New York Times bestseller, Michelle Alexander argues that the war on drugs has created a new racial caste system, disproportionately punishing black people. A powerfully interlocking system of laws and policies targets black people for drug crime, punishes them more severely than white criminals, and makes life as an ex-felon extremely difficult. The result is effectively racial subjugation and disenfranchisement.

In this summary, you’ll learn how the war on drugs followed a pattern of implementation consistent with slavery and Jim Crow, how financial incentives and legal protection allow selective targeting of black males for drug crimes, and why it’s so difficult for drug convicts to reintegrate into society.

A year after Covid-19 was declared a pandemic and the economy ground to a halt, 4.1 million workers have fallen into long-term unemployment (LTU)—unemployment for six or more months. This has hit educated workers, women, and Asian-Americans especially hard, and getting a job might not be easy even as the economy recovers.

In Incognito, David Eagleman explores a disconcerting concept—that the vast majority of your brain activity is unconscious and outside of your control. Comprising the bulk of your mental activity, your unconscious mind creates your perception of reality, allows you to perform complex actions without thinking about them, and makes snap judgments and decisions you’re unaware of. Because of this, Eagleman challenges the assumption that humans have free will—which, he argues, opens up important questions about criminal justice and prisoner rehabilitation.

Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University and the co-founder of two companies, Neosensory and Braincheck. He also directs the Center for Science and Law, a nonprofit that applies principles of neuroscience to improve the justice system. Our guide to Incognito unpacks Eagleman’s ideas about consciousness and free will, looks at the research behind these ideas, and explores other perspectives on criminal justice.

In this New York Times bestseller, Michelle Alexander argues that the war on drugs has created a new racial caste system, disproportionately punishing black people. A powerfully interlocking system of laws and policies targets black people for drug crime, punishes them more severely than white criminals, and makes life as an ex-felon extremely difficult. The result is effectively racial subjugation and disenfranchisement.

In this summary, you’ll learn how the war on drugs followed a pattern of implementation consistent with slavery and Jim Crow, how financial incentives and legal protection allow selective targeting of black males for drug crimes, and why it’s so difficult for drug convicts to reintegrate into society.

In their 2013 book Conscious Capitalism, co-founder and former CEO of Whole Foods Market John Mackey teams up with businessman Raj Sisodia to introduce an improved version of capitalism. Mackey and Sisodia argue that capitalism is inherently good for people, but conscious capitalism is even better because it benefits all interested parties—including the environment and society at large. According to the authors, conscious capitalism has the potential to unleash unprecedented human ingenuity and solve most, if not all, of the problems we face.

Our guide will cover the philosophy of conscious capitalism and how to practice it—by prioritizing a good cause over profits, practicing enlightened leadership and management, and ensuring that all interested parties benefit from doing business with your company. In our commentary, we’ll compare conscious capitalism with other economic systems, discuss business management advice from other authors, and explore examples of conscious capitalism in greater detail.

Since the 1980s, short-term mission trips have become a popular form of ministry for many evangelical Christian churches throughout North America. The purpose of these missions is ostensibly to spread the gospel and help the poor, particularly in developing nations. But Christian economic development experts Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert express concern that many of these missions actually do more harm than good because the people who organize them misunderstand the true nature and causes of poverty.

In this guide, we’ll examine their concerns, their exposition of the essence of poverty, and their suggestions for helping the poor effectively—whether by restructuring mission trips or canceling them in order to support other, more effective forms of poverty alleviation. We’ll also provide additional resources for applying some of their advice and compare their perspective to other poverty alleviation experts, such as Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Amartya Sen.