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Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart Rachel Botsman PublicAffairs (November 2017) How and why the real disruption in our VUCA world is not caused by technology; rather, by the massive…
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Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work Joseph L. Badaracco Harvard Business School Press (September 2016) Here’s what you need when making the most difficult decisions Friedrich Hegel once suggested that many of…
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The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh Simon & Schuster (2016) Here are several “profoundly counterintuitive perspectives on how to become a better person and how to create a better…
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These words of wisdom truly are some of the most powerful and wisest quotes ever written. Here they are… 1. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article from The Economist in which the benefits of inward-bound learning are examined. For more than 20 years, I have been retained by corporate clients to conduct what I characterize as “brown bag…
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50 Philosophy Classics: THINKING, BEING, ACTING, SEEING – Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking from Fifty Key Books Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey Publishing (2013) The study of philosophy has as its purpose to know…the truth about the ways things are.” Thomas…
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Squirrel Inc.: A Fable of Leadership through Storytelling Stephen Denning Josey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2004) Nuts R Us Think about it. Who are among the greatest storytellers throughout history? My own list includes Homer, Plato, Chaucer, Aesop, Jesus, Dante, Boccaccio, the…
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Steve Denning, Annette Simmons, and Doug Lipman have written brilliant books on the subject of storytelling; more specifically, about how to write an effective business narrative. It is worth noting that CBS’s 60 Minutes is the longest running prime-time television show…
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Alex Shalman’s Favorite Inspirational Quotations
As a this New Year evolves, you may find many of these observations of special interest and value. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” Stephen Covey “Our greatest weakness lies in giving…
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