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Phil Stutz and Barry Michels are psychotherapists as well as the co-authors of The Tools: Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity, published by Spiegel & Grau/Random House (2012). As Michels explains, “Twenty-five years have passed since Phil and…
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Here is the executive summary of an article co-authored by Jean-François Manzoni and Jean-Louis Barsoux that was published in Harvard Business Review and later developed into a book. To read the complete article, you must be registered to have free…
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Here is an excerpt from another brilliant essay by Maria Popova and featured by her blog for mind/heart/soul-starved explorers, Brain Pickings. Her taste is impeccable and her judgment flawless. Please check out the treasures by clicking here. * * *…
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The Necessity of Strangers: The Intriguing Truth About Insight, Innovation, and Success Alan S. Gregerman Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2013) How and why it is imperative to engage, learn from, and collaborate with strangers As I began to read this book,…
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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 Ramon Nunez, chief executive of…
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With all due respect to Sheryl Sanberg, she is only one of the latest women who have “leaned in” to achieve success in U.S. history. I highly recommend Gail Collins’ America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines,…
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As I began to read Alan Gregerman’s recently published book, The Necessity of Strangers: The Intriguing Truth About Insight, Innovation, and Success, I was again reminded of how deceptively complicated the word “stranger” is. It could refer to someone we…
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What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Edited by John Brockman Harper Perennial (2007) “Yesterday’s dangerous idea is today’s orthodoxy and tomorrow’s cliché.” — Richard Dawkins According to founder and editor, John Brockman, the Edge Question was first posed in 1998: “What…
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Here is an excerpt from an interview of Bruce DelMonico, director of admissions at Yale’s School of Management featured in an article by John A, Byrne for Poets & Quants, a social network. Its goal is to create a helpful…
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More Great Quotations
Quotations that have enduring meaning and significance are those that offer unique insight into human nature. That is certainly true of these. “If you inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”…
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