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The biographer Hermione Lee, whose new life of Tom Stoppard was published on Feb. 23.Credit…Jamie Muir Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Charles McGrath that was featured in The New York Times. To read the complete article,…
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A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy Jonathan Israel Princeton University Press (2011) On Radical Enlightenment’s ongoing, multidimensional “opposition to mainstream thinking” Having read two of Jonathan Israel’s recent works, The Enlightenment…
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Michael Bungay Stanier is the author of The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever as well as the Senior Partner and Founder of Box of Crayons, a company is best known for its…
Read MoreStephen Heidari-Robinson was a leader in McKinsey & Company’s organization practice, heading the firm’s work on energy-sector reorganizations and on the practicalities of implementing reorganizations across all sectors. Stephen was UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s energy and environment adviser. He…
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Stephen Heidari-Robinson was a leader in McKinsey & Company’s organization practice, heading the firm’s work on energy-sector reorganizations and on the practicalities of implementing reorganizations across all sectors. Stephen was UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s energy and environment adviser. He…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Chris Anderson, featured by Ideas.TED.com. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * It might seem like our interconnected world is unraveling, if last week’s Brexit vote is…
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There’s no single formula for a great talk, but there is a secret ingredient that all the best ones have in common. TED Curator Chris Anderson shares this secret — along with four ways to make it work for you.…
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The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World Joseph L. Badaracco Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How to “raise the odds of working successfully and responsibly in the exciting, uncertain, recombiant, market-driven world around us” I read this book…
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In his latest book, Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work, Joseph Badaracco observes, “The soundest guidance for grappling with hard, complex, uncertain practical problems is a set of five questions that men…
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Three Paths to Superintelligence
In Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (first published by Oford University Pfress in 2012i), Nick Bostrom focuses on three main paths to superintelligence: 1. The AI Path: In this path, all current (and future) AI technologies, such as machine learning, Bayesian…
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