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Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos Heidi K. Gardner Harvard Business Review Press (January 2017) How to establish or strengthen a workplace culture within which smart collaboration is most likely to thrive As I…
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Avid Reader: A Life Robert Gottlieb Farrah, Straus and Giroux (2016) Self-portrait of a remarkable life that continues to be driven and nourished by reading Since childhood, Robert Gottlieb has been an avid reader of books and those who write…
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Creating Minds is one of the most enjoyable as well as one of the most informative books I have ever read. Recently, I re-read it and enjoyed it even more. I have long admired Howard Gardner’s research on multiple intelligences…
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The 50s: The Story of a Decade Henry Finder, Editor Random House (2015) “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Charles Dickens For more than 90 years, The New Yorker has earned and deserves its…
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The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory Susan Wise Bauer W.W. Norton & Company (2015) “Life is short, and Art long, the crisis fleeting; experience is perilous, and decisions difficult.” Hippocrates There…
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During an especially practical podcast, Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg discusses a nimbler approach to diagnosing problems than existing frameworks: reframing. He’s the author of “Are You Solving the Right Problems?” in the January/February 2017 issue of Harvard Business Review. * * *…
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Creating Minds is one of the most enjoyable as well as one of the most informative books I have ever read. Recently, I re-read it and recommend it even more enthusiastically now. I have long admired Howard Gardner’s research on…
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The Power of Asking the Right Questions
In Ask More, Frank Sesno explains how developing “the power of questions” can help almost anyone to achieve both short- and long-term objectives, whatever they may be. For example, peak performers in executive search claim that they learn much more…
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