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How to Zoom Your Room: Room Rater’s Ultimate Style Guide Claude Taylor and Jessie Bahrey, with Illustrations by Chris Morris Voracious/An imprint of Little, Brown & Company (June 2021) Why “zoom a room”? Up front, I acknowledge with pride and…
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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Above: Scout (Mary Badham) and Atticus (Gregory Peck) in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Peggy Noonan Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Peggy Noonan for The Wall Street Journal. I agree with her that, with the recent…
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The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington Gregg Herken Alfred A. Knopf (2014) “The hand that mixes the Georgetown martini is time and again the hand that guides the destiny of the Western world.” Henry Kissinger. As…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Greg McKeown that he posted at his blog. To visit his website, please click this link. * * * When Bill Gates first met Warren Buffett, their host at dinner, Gates’…
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I was saddened to learn of Warren Bennis‘ death this past Thursday in Los Angeles at age 89. The title of his last of several dozen books, Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership, is especially appropriate because,…
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Doris Kearns Goodwin‘s latest of several brilliant biographies, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, was recently published by Simon & Schuster. Here is a brief excerpt of an interview of her by…
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Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History William Safire W.W. Norton (1997) If there is a better anthology of great speeches, I am not aware of it. The text from which its title is derived is Mark Antony’s speech…
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The annual Army-Navy football game was played last Saturday. There are so many interesting stories associated with this game since it was first played in 1890 at West Point, New York. The U.S. Naval Academy prevailed then, 24-20, and did…
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Jeffrey Pfeffer on “Getting beyond the BS of leadership literature”
Management books and commentaries often oversimplify, seldom providing useful guidance about the skills and behavior needed to get things done. Here’s a better reading list for leaders, provided in an article written by Jeffrey Pfeffer for the McKinsey Quarterly, published…
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