Month: September 2012
So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love Cal Newport Business Plus (2012)How and why “the craftsman mindset is the foundation for creating work you love” Curious, I checked on the…
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Lead By Greatness: How Character Can Power Your Success David Lapin Avoda Books (2012) “Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer “Greatness” is one of the terms that have become essentially useless because their meaning…
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The Click Moment: Seizing Opportunity in an Unpredictable World Frans Johansson Portfolio/Penguin (2012) Why we are determined to explain random success, especially when it is inexplicable In an earlier book, The Medici Effect, Frans Johansson explains that this book is…
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I check out TED videos every chance I get because they comprise a treasury of information, insights, and wisdom provided by thought leaders in one or more of three fields: Technology, Entertainment, and Design. Dan Pink has much of value to say about all…
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The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing John Perry Workman Publishing (2012) “The early bird may get the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese.” This review is from: The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to…
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Here’s another special treat from the HBR Blog Network: an HBR IdeaCast that consists of an interview with Frank Barrett, jazz pianist and author of Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz. He is a professor of management at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey,…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Rosabeth Moss Kanter for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * *…
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o “The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.” Horace Walpole o “Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for t’is better to be alone than in bad company.” George Washington…
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In his recently published book, The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging, and Postponing, John Perry observes: “All procrastinators put off things they have to do. Structured procrastination is the art of making this negative trait work…
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Six especially engaging films (2010-2011)
Actually, there are far more than six but these are among the films I think are especially engaging: The King’s Speech (201o): This brilliantly traces the process by which the Duke of York (later crowned George VI, played by Colin…
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