Month: December 2013
Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by James Citrin for LinkedIn’s “Big Ideas 2014” series in which LinkedIn Influencers pick one big idea that will shape 2014. To read the complete article and check out others, please…
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“Natural hitter my ass” was Williams’ response when someone suggested he was a great “natural hitter.” In fact, he had spent more time than any other baseball player ever has — or ever will– working on the techniques of hitting a…
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Here is an excerpt from an article by David Edelman for LinkedIn Pulse. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. Image: Chrisinplymoth/Flickr * * * Every marketer at some point early on in his/her career…
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Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them Joshua Greene The Penguin Press (2013) How and why “we can improve our prospects for peace and prosperity by improving the way we think about moral problems” When I…
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Trust is on the decline, and we need to rebuild it. That’s a commonly heard suggestion for making a better world … but, says philosopher Onora O’Neill, we don’t really understand what we’re suggesting. She flips the question, showing us…
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In 1969, Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon noted: “Engineering, medicine, business, architecture, and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent — not with how things are, but with they might be — in short, with design. Every…
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Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World Thomas Cahill Nan A. Talese/Doubleday (2013) A brilliant examination of who and what accelerated the development of western civilization This is Volume VI in Thomas Cahill’s “Hinges of…
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Years ago, I devised a metaphor for business that helps to illustrate two defining characteristics of a healthy organization. Let’s express it in the form of a question: “What would happen around here if [name of employee] were run over…
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As another new year approaches….
It has been a pleasure as well as a privilege to read and review so many outstanding books and interview those who wrote them, then be able to share this wealth of material with others throughout the world. This will…
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