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Tom Stoppard: A Life Hermione Lee Knopf (February 2021) A lively and rigorous exploration of an enormous life spent in constant motion In his brilliant review of this book for The New York Times, Dwight Garner observes: “Now 83, he’s…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Joe Lemire for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and, obtain subscription information, please click here. Credit: Tony Cenicola/The New York Times * * *…
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I am among those who differentiate pressure and stress. Others view them as being essentially the same and focus on what can happen when one or the other is excessive. What do you think? Here is an excerpt from an…
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Here is a brief excerpt from Barton Swaim’s review of David O. Stewart’s George Washington: The Political Rise of America’s Founding Father, for The Wall Street Journal. He asserts that the first President of the United States “was a savvy…
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Here is a brief excerpt from one of the interviews within McKinsey & Company’s Leadership Matters Series. In this instance, McKinsey’s Vijay D’Silva and Roberta Fusaro interview Adena Friedman. To read the complete interview, check out others resources, learn more…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Sabah Alam Hydari for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up for email alerts,…
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Here is an excerpt from an article in the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. It explores the challenges that Black workers face in the private sector To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about…
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Eleanor David Michaelis Simon & Schuster (October 2020) “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” Eleanor Roosevelt Over the years, I have read hundreds of biographies and reviewed many of them. This is one of…
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Why study history?
In her bestseller, From These Truths: A History of the United States, Jill Lepore suggests no one can know a nation as far back as 1787, “with or without baby teeth kept in a far. But studying history is like…
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