Month: October 2013
Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes Tom Rath Missionday (2013) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle In a previous book, Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements, co-authored…
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In The Innovation Expedition: A Visual Toolkit to Start Innovation (BIS Publishers, Amsterdam 2013), Gijs van Wulfen includes a brief but informative discussion of “accidental accidents.” 1. Columbus: When he first reached land during the first voyage, he thought he had…
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David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants Malcolm Gladwell Little, Brown and Company (2013) Flawed reasoning skills detract from interesting stories about underdogs I have read and reviewed all of Malcolm Gladwell’s previous books and consider…
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Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Michael Gould, the chief executive…
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Dilbertisms A magazine ran a “Dilbert Quotations” contest. They were looking for people to submit quotations from their real-life Dilbert-type managers. Here are the finalists: 1. As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual…
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Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration Scott Doorley and Scott Witthoft John Wiley & Sons (2013) How to use space to create a culture of collaboration within which personal growth and professional development thrive As I…
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I am deeply grateful to “Sarah N” for providing the information that follows. Until now, I was unaware of most of these facts. * * * 104 years ago: o The average life expectancy for men was 47 years. o…
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The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence—and Lead Dana Ardi St. Martin’s Press (2013) This is another “time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to…
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Nicole Lipkin is the CEO of Equilibria Leadership Consulting, an international leadership consulting company based in the US. She coaches and consults with leaders and their organizations to improve management and leadership skills, strengthen the leadership pipeline and develop sustainable…
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George Saunders’ moving commencement speech at Syracuse University goes viral
George Saunders (Class of ’88), professor of English and author of The New York Times best-seller Tenth of December (Random House, 2013), delivered the commencement speech at The College of Arts and Sciences’ undergraduate convocation ceremony on Saturday, May 11,…
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