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March is here! I like the sound of that! In this Spring edition of ARC Reads, we’re sharing a fresh selection of tech and business articles that are shaping conversations and sparking ideas across our team.

What We're Reading This Month

‍Why Some Companies Grow Rapidly While Others Stall - Growth is every company’s goal, but not all achieve or sustain it. To understand what separates high-growth companies from those that stagnate, we undertook a global survey of more than 500 senior revenue-driving leaders, including chief marketing, commercial, revenue, and growth officers across public, private, and family-owned companies in the consumer, industrial, technology, financial services, healthcare, and professional services industries. Find out more.

How to Tackle Your To-Do List if You Struggle With Attention - Too often, modern life is defined by cognitive overload. We carry more information, more obligations and more ambient anxiety than at any point in the history of grey matter. Work bleeds into home, notifications fracture attention and productivity culture insists that if you’re overwhelmed, the solution is simple. Do better. The result is a brain-draining paradox: the pressure to get things done increases, while our capacity to do them feels thinner than ever. How to tackle article here.

Cybersecurity Requires Collective Resilience - When a CrowdStrike patch inadvertently disrupted Windows endpoints worldwide in 2024, even well-prepared companies were impacted. Yet while many companies struggled to get back online, some were able to recover surprisingly quickly. The difference came down to how quickly leaders could understand the scope and risk, validate mitigation steps, and align communications.

Why You Should Try to Improve Your Mobility - We know. First, you were told to do aerobic exercise most days of the week. Then, they said you needed to do muscle-building moves at least twice a week. And now we’re saying you need to also work on your mobility. But hear us out: You just need about 5 minutes a day, and the bang is well worth the buck.

Your Company Needs to Focus on Fewer Projects. Here’s How. - In almost every organization I’ve advised, I’ve encountered the same problem: fartoo many projects, and far too few that truly matter. A CEO of a globalnonprofit association once told me, half joking, half frustrated, that his company had 900 employees but more than 1,200 active projects. “It’s madness,”he said. “But people love launching projects. It feels exciting. It shows progress. Stopping them? That’s uncomfortable. It feels like failure.”Get the full article.