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David Remnick discusses his recent article in The New Yorker, “The Imperial Putin,” with Charlie Rose. Remnick was a reporter for The Washington Post for ten years, including four in Moscow. He joined The New Yorker in 1992 and has…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Kellye Whitney for Talent Management magazine. She points out that, according to Sharon Salzberg, author of a recently published book, it might be time to reconsider the power of mindfulness to…
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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 Sharon Sloane, C.E.O. of Will…
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American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America Edmund S. Morgan W.W. Norton & Company (2009) No one but Edmund Morgan has in our own time “known so well the materials of New England history during the…
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John Wooden, affectionately known as Coach, led UCLA to record wins that are still unmatched in the world of basketball. Throughout his long life, he shared the values and life lessons he passed to his players, emphasizing success that’s about…
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Massively Open: How Massive Open Online Courses Changed the World Jonan Donaldson, Eliane Agra, Mohammed Alshammari, Andrew Bailey, Daniel Bowdoin, Meghan Kendle, Lauren Nixon, and Lisa Wressel CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2013) How and why MOOCs could “completely revolutionize what…
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Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, “What makes a life worth living?” Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of “flow.” He has contributed pioneering work…
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How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching Susan Ambrose, Michael Bridges, Michelle DiPietro, Marsha Lovell, and Marie Norman Jozsey-Bass/A Wiley Im print (2014) At least in higher education in the United States, how learning can work…and why, sometimes,…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Tunde Olanrewaju, Kate Smaje, and Paul Willmott for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. They explain how and why, to stay competitive, companies must stop experimenting with digital…
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Revisiting the Classics: Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”
In addition to book reviews, interviews, and commentaries, I also re-read several classics each calendar year. My perennials include Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone, Shakespeare’s four mature tragedies (Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth), Ecclesiastes (Old Testament) and St. Paul’s…
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