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HBR Guide to Crafting Your Purpose John Coleman Harvard Business Review Press (January 2022) How to craft a life and a career guided, informed, and enriched by purpose This one of very few single-author volumes in HBR Guide to…. series,…
Read MoreLives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman Penguin Random House (September 2020) Here are generally neglected and underappreciated lovers of wisdom in the ancient world Most adults with at…
Read MoreUpstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen Dan Heath Avid Reader Press/An imprint of Simon & Schuster (March 2020) Never more true than it is today: “A stitch in time….” I have read and reviewed four bestsellers co-authored…
Read MoreThe Purpose Effect: Building Meaning in Yourself, Your Role and Your Organization Dan Pontefract Elevate Publishing (May 2016) Faber est suae quisque fortunae Those who have read Dan Pontefract’s previous book, Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization, already…
Read MoreThe Road to Character David Brooks Random House (2015) Here is a thoughtful and heartfelt affirmation of a “moral ecology” that can help all of us to cultivate stronger character I have read and then reviewed most of David Brooks’…
Read MoreMindfulness at Work: How to Avoid Stress, Achieve More, and Enjoy Life! Stephen McKenzie Career Press (2014) How and why awareness and acceptance are essential to personal growth and professional development What is mindfulness? Opinions vary. Here is one that…
Read MoreWhat You’re Really Meant to Do: A Roadmap for Reaching Your Unique Potential Robert Steven Kaplan Harvard Business Review Press (2013) To paraphrase Walt Whitman, “We are large, we contain multitudes.” Self-improvement initiatives or, if you prefer, self-fulfillment or self-actualization…
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Who is Ernest Becker and what is his relevance to today’s business world?
Ernest Becker (1924-1974) was a cultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary scientific thinker and writer. He is probably most famous for one of his nine books, Denial of Death, published in 1973 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 (for general non-fiction)…
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