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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Adam Grant for The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. In it, Grant explains how and why, by encouraging employees to both seek and provide help, rewarding givers, and…
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation Jon Gertner Penguin Books (2012) How and why Bell Labs was once the most innovative scientific (and perhaps most commercial) organization in the world As I began to…
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Jonathan Winters always was and forever will be my favorite humorist. Here is a brief excerpt from Robin Williams‘ tribute to him, featured in The New York Times. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * My…
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To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism Evgeny Morozov PublicAffairs/Perseus Books Group (2013) How and why the inefficiency of “solutionism” is compromising advanced technology I agree with Evgeny Morozov that a never-ending quest to ameliorate, what Tania…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Maxwell Wessel for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR…
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Make Your Brain Smarter: Increase Your Brain’s Creativity, Energy, and Focus Sandra Bond Chapman with Shelly Kirkland Free Press/A Simon & Schuster Imprint (2013) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle…
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Here is an excerpt from another McKinsey Global Study during which executives indicate that the adoption of social-media tools at their companies is high—and that this usage could spur additional benefits. To read the complete report, check out other resources,…
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50 Philosophy Classics: THINKING, BEING, ACTING, SEEING – Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking from Fifty Key Books Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey Publishing (2013) The study of philosophy has as its purpose to know…the truth about the ways things are.” Thomas…
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How to Find Your Own “Element”
Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica collaborated on The Element (2009) and do so again when explaining, in Finding Your Element (May 21, 2013) how to discover one’s talents and passions and, thereby, transform one’s life. Although Aronica no doubt made…
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