“Song of Myself”
On Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation Kim Samuel Abrams Press (September 2022) You are large, you contain multitudes…just like everyone else. The title of this brief commentary channels a reassurance from Walt Whitman in “Song of Myself.”…
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Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People Debbie Millman Harper Design/An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers (February 2022) “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” Steve Jobs In Song of…
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Susan Cain Broadway Books (2013) How and why our location on “the introvert-extrovert spectrum” influences most (if not all) of our decisions and opinions I recently re-read this…
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Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense Jenny Uglow Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2018) Probably the definitive biography of a polymath “who was large, who contained multitudes” My title paraphrases Walt Whitman’s declaration in his classic work, “Song of…
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Open to Think: Slow Down, Think Creatively and Make Better Decisions Dan Pontefract Figure.1 Publishing (September 2018) “Keep your minds open — but not so open that your brains fall out.” Walter Kotschnig Dan Pontefract’s third book focuses on thinking.…
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StandOut 2.0: Assess Your Strengths, Find Your Edge, Win at Work Marcus Buckingham Harvard Business Review Press (July 2015) How to identify and then leverage the strengths needed to accelerate personal growth and professional development Those who have read one…
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With all due respect to Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of Steve Jobs, Brent Schlender developed a professional and personal relationship with Jobs over a period of about 25 years and co-authored a book with Rick Tetzeli, Becoming Steve Jobs: The…
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Lead Like it Matters…Because it Does: Practical Leadership Tools to Inspire and Engage Your People and Create Great Results Roxi Behar Hewertson McGraw-Hill (2015) Every organization needs effective leadership at all levels and in all areas of the given enterprise.…
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Olivier Philip Ziegler MacLehose Press (2013) A comprehensive biography of a magnificent performer who was large, who contained multitudes Prior to reading Philip Ziegler’s biography, what I knew about Laurence Olivier (1907-1989) was limited almost entirely to seeing several of…
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Affirmations of Having a Values-Driven Life and Career
The shabby U.S. presidential campaign in 2016 has reminded me again of how important a values-driven life and career are unless those values demonstrate what Hannah Arendt so aptly characterizes as “the banality of evil.” Here are a few thought-provoking…
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