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Keep your employees on the cutting edge. Equip them with 24/7 access to a wealth of business expertise.

getAbstract curates, summarizes and publishes the most relevant business

knowledge so professionals make better decisions and

companies thrive.

My most limited resource is time. My most valuable asset is knowledge. Thanks to getAbstract I can absorb more knowledge in less time. That’s a great return on investment!

An efficient, robust learning strategygetAbstract eliminates information overload by giving your team instant access from any device to a library of over 10,000 summaries of the world’s top business sources. Each of our abstracts is organized into a concise format that highlights the most important concepts and strategies from leading business books, TED talks and economic reports.

Each summary is formatted using getAbstract’s proven template to maximize knowledge retention.

Every abstract includes an editorial rating, top take-away’s, a full summary, significant quotes, an author biography and other key points – all of which can be absorbed in less than ten minutes.

-Dr. Bob Eccles,

Senior Fellow of PricewaterhouseCoopers and Professor at Harvard Business School

*Shown above is an example of a summary from our Compressed Business summary library, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results, Gary Keller and Jay Papasan, Bard Press, 2013. 240 pages.

Informed employees fuel long-term successLinking getAbstract to other development and change initiatives makes learning more sustainable and effective. Tapping into our library of compressed knowledge gives your employees — and your organization — a competitive advantage by:

• Offering self-directed micro learning opportunities that empower employees 24/7• Making knowledge available right at the point of need, leading to faster, improved

decision-making• Providing team members at all levels with easy access to information, which helps

organizations prepare their future leaders• Delivering resources for organized learning initiatives and competency training

and development

Fast Fact: Over one-third of all Fortune 100 companies use getAbstract.

Experts have discovered that

70% of learning is informal,

20% requires coaching

and 10% is formal.

Many leaders can expand beyond one method to comprehensively strengthen employees’ expertise levels. getAbstract is not only an ideal informal learning tool, but it enhances all three of these strategies by bringing in outside perspectives, cutting-edge research and emerging trends.

Study: Lombardo, Michael M. and Robert W. Eichinger (1996) The Career Architect Development Planner.

Lominger Limited, Inc. p. iv. ISBN 0965571211.

Informal

10%Formal

20%Coaching

70%Informal

GE has integrated getAbstract into existing learning processes to empower employees with on-demand external thinking that fosters collaboration and knowledge sharing.

-Peter Cavanaugh,

Operations Manager for GE Global Learning

We align our content to your organization’s business priorities by:• Compiling tailored book lists for teams, programs and events • Balancing various learning methods to suit your group’s preferences

Customized to fit your needsgetAbstract’s team of expert Learning Consultants use our AIM methodology: (A) Alignment, (I) Integration and (M) Marketing to help your organization gain the maximum possible benefit from compressed knowledge.

NeedGE’s top priority was to give team members global access to solid learning material, available whenever they need it, wherever they work or learn and translated into local languages.

ResultsGE employees read more than 1.8 million book summaries each year and the adoption rate continues to climb.

SolutiongetAbstract enables GE to provide every manager with leading-edge external thinking that’s customized and aligned with the company’s key initiatives.

{ Quick Stats }40,000 users, 150,000 downloads per month,

5 million downloads since 2008

Fast Fact: getAbstract adds more than 100 new summaries to its library every month.

We integrate getAbstract into your learning culture by:• Providing multiple options for entry points and login tools to fit your security needs• Offering access to stand-alone portals and integrating into existing systems

We help you build awareness and drive meaningful usage by:• Planning launch events and group activities • Creating marketing tools, videos and flyers

Relevant, influential contentSorting through the constant influx of new content is one of the biggest challenges of giving your team effective learning resources. getAbstract takes this task off your plate by curating thousands of new publications through a rigorous selection process and only summarizing the most relevant, useful knowledge.

High-quality writinggetAbstract’s team of summary writers and editors has been published by The Wall Street Journal, the Dow Jones Newswire, Institutional Investor and other leading outlets that rely on the same quality we bring to you. Over 450 publishers, in recognition of the quality of our abstracts, have granted us licenses to summarize their books.

Partnerships with the world’s brightest minds

How can you spur inspiration, creativity and innovation in your organization? TED Talks are an “Idea Worth Spreading” and getAbstract has an exclusive partnership with the nonprofit TED organization to produce a steady stream of two-page summaries from the videos. The world’s most fascinating thinkers, leaders and doers deliver high-prestige presentations that enthuse and motivate. Each brief has key messages bulleted and content within the summary links directly to the corresponding section of the original TED Talk video.

Compressed Finance provides decision makers with summaries of the most influential financial and economic reports, enabling them to make better informed decisions in less time! Business executives in every industry will benefit by better understanding the economic environment in which they operate. Advisors and asset managers can efficiently acquire financial intelligence through multiple reporting sources for reliable and sustainable decisions. getAbstract Compressed Finance, curated by The Economist Intelligence Unit, provides a steady stream of summaries of the most influential financial outlooks, reports and articles from around the world including The Brookings Institution, The Economist Intelligence Unit, International Monetary Fund, The World Economic Forum, and The World Bank.

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Compressed knowledge anytime, anywhereYour employees are no longer restricted to carrying out business at their desks. So give them a learning tool that travels as easily as they do. They can access getAbstract’s summaries through RSS feeds, podcasts, web browsers, all mobile devices, PDFs, streaming audio and MP3 files. We create summaries that cross language barriers by providing abstracts in English, German, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, French and Portuguese.

Fast Fact: Professionals can read each getAbstract summary in just 10 minutes or listen to an audio summary in only eight minutes.

Fast Fact: Micro-Learning is subject-specific learning modalities that are accomplished in short durations of time.

Discover social learningEach person who reads a summary shows it, on average, to five more people. getAbstract’s enterprise social media platform encourages professionals to discover, share and discuss new knowledge with colleagues via our custom sharing platform or popular social media sites. Single-sign-on capabilities facilitate client usage and are available for most commercial Social platforms including Yammer, Jive, and Chatter.

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compressed knowledge is power

For us, getAbstract is absolutely a must-have. Absolutely. I can’t think of a learning tool we have that’s more accessible to the entire population . . . It’s a meaty tool for every employee’s learning.

How do we keep our 30 employees engaged and assure world-class performance? By making learning opportunities such as getAbstract available to them. We benefit by delivering business results that are the envy of larger companies.

Brett Rose, CEO and Founder of United National Consumer Suppliers

getAbstract has reinforced our belief that development happens everywhere, not just in the classroom.

-Jay Anders,

Manager of Learning Governance & Systems