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RISQ Company Book Club “The Signals Are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe is Tomorrow’s Mainstream”

Wednesday, 09 March 2022 by RISQ Consulting
By Ashley Snodgrass, Employee Benefits Analyst

The RISQ Consulting Team has been proud to sponsor a company book club for the last few years. Our book club has led to many insightful discussions about client experience, productivity, effective meeting structure, team dynamics, leadership and more. Some of these ideas have even led to tangible and beneficial changes in our organization.

Most recently, our team read The Signals Are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe is Tomorrow’s Mainstream by Amy Webb. Amy Webb is a noted Futurist and founder of the Future Today Institute. Webb works to help companies and individuals understand how to interpret signals as information that can be used in planning for the future.  According to the Future Today Institute (FTI) website, FTI works with companies to prepare leaders for “deep uncertainty and complex futures”.  Amy Webb wrote The Signals Are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe is Tomorrow’s Mainstream to bring futurist thinking to a wider audience.

In this book, Webb illustrates a multi-step process in which the reader can test patterns in societal behavior to determine which are more likely to turn into trends or stick long-term, as well as offer insight on how to think like a futurist. Webb also includes helpful graphics and supplemental resources to allow the reader to implement this process in their own organization.

The purpose of reading this book as a team was to encourage discussions about innovation. After reading, members of the book club met and discussed how varying technologies will impact our industry. We also discussed how we can leverage the NEW to benefit our clients and their employees. This resulted in RISQ creating a more robust and tech-forward employee communications package, which has become a high value service to our clients.

You may not be able to adopt all of the great ideas stored between the pages of a book club book, but when you share the experience of reading you are guaranteed to have at least one great outcome; it builds better comradery. And building better comradery is one positive trend that I know will stick around long-term.

As a reminder, if you want to start a book club in your own organization, I recommend checking out this post – for more tips to a successful start. Happy Reading!

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40 Best Books of 2021

Tuesday, 14 September 2021 by RISQ Consulting
By Jessica Carlson, Employee Benefits Consultant

I’m about to take off on a much-needed vacation (jealous?) but spending twelve plus hours each way between planes and airports all by myself has the potential to get a bit boring.  I have loaded my iPad with various movies and shows to occupy some of that time, but it’s still A LOT of time to kill.  Not wanting to kill ALL of my brain cells with mindless binge watching, I decided to scour the internet for a couple of good books to read to fill the extra void.

I came across a few different blogs with lists of the best books to read this fall, but most lists failed to entice me.  Finally, I discovered a wonderfully comprehensive list that looks like it has a ton of great content recommendations. It’s Esquire’s “The 40 Best Books of 2021 (So Far)”.  So, save a brain cell, read a book! Check out the link for a great variety of reads:

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g35180578/best-books-of-2021/

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