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Here is an excerpt from an article by Joanna Barsh and Johanne Lavoie for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. They recommend and explain five simple exercises can help executives to recognize, and start to shift, the mind-sets…
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Olivier Philip Ziegler MacLehose Press (2013) A comprehensive biography of a magnificent performer who was large, who contained multitudes Prior to reading Philip Ziegler’s biography, what I knew about Laurence Olivier (1907-1989) was limited almost entirely to seeing several of…
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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 Paula Long, chief executive of…
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Here is an excerpt from an article by Micio Kaku for the Wall Street Journal in which he shares his thoughts about the fact that we have learned more about the thinking brain in the last 10-15 years than in…
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Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic Matthew Stewart W.W., Norton & Company (2014) A brilliant analysis of “the power and impact of America’s original philosophical radicalism” This was an especially challenging read because the issues that Matthew…
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Here is an excerpt from an interview of J. Craig Venter conducted by Alison Beard for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and…
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What Stays in Vegas: The World of Personal Data — Lifeblood of Big Business — and the End of Privacy as We Know It Adam Tanner PublicAffairs (2014) What stays in Las Vegas? An abundance of personal data used to…
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Here is a brief excerpt from a “classic” article co-authored by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. It was published in 2001 and was later developed into their business bestseller,…
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Robert Benchley is among my favorite humorists. He once observed, “The world is divided into two groups of people. Those who divide the world into two groups of people and those who don’t.” I am among those who divide the…
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A conversation with the essayist and editor Joseph Epstein
Here is a brief excerpt from Katie Bolick’s superb interview of Joseph Epstein for The Atlantic, dated June 30, 1999. It happened once that GQ magazine was to photograph the editor and writer Joseph Epstein in his classroom at Northwestern…
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