Henry David Thoreau
Beyond Happiness: How Authentic Leaders Prioritize Purpose and People for Growth and Impact Jenn Lin Grand Central Publishing (October 2021) “Death is not the greatest loss in life…[but rather] what dies inside us while we live.” This assertion by Norman…
Read MoreIn addition to book reviews, interviews, and commentaries, I also re-read several classics each calendar year. My perennials include Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone, Shakespeare’s four mature tragedies (Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth), Ecclesiastes (Old Testament) and St. Paul’s…
Read MoreAlthough by now I probably should not be, I continue to be amazed by the practical implications of observations by advocates of non-violence, notably Henry David Thoreau, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Yes, they were passivists but…
Read MoreThe Challenge Culture: Why the Most Successful Organizations Run on Pushback Nigel Travis PublicAffairs (September 2018) The almost unlimited power of purposeful questions, positive pushback, and civil debate In our personal lives as well as in our careers, if we…
Read MoreAs the debate continues as to who’s a “genius” and who isn’t, I decided to re-read a book published two years ago. In The Invention of Nature, Andrea Wulf has this to say about Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859): He “was…
Read MoreThe Art of Authenticity: Tools to Become an Authentic Leader and Your Best Self Karissa Thacker John Wiley & Sons (March 2016) “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is more Youer…
Read MoreRalph Young is a history professor at Temple University. He has done extensive research in the history of protest movements, terrorist organizations, and 17th-century Puritanism. He is the author of Dissent: The History of an American Idea, a narrative history…
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Revisiting the Classics: Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”
In addition to book reviews, interviews, and commentaries, I also re-read several classics each calendar year. My perennials include Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone, Shakespeare’s four mature tragedies (Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth), Ecclesiastes (Old Testament) and St. Paul’s…
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