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Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age Marty Neumeier New Riders (2012) How and why metacognition (highly-developed “knowing about knowing”) requires mastery of metaskills J. H. Flavell was probably the first to use the term metacognition when suggesting that it…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic 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…
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The Leaders We Need: And What Makes Us Follow Michael Macoby Harvard Business School Press (2007) The importance of “principled pragmatism” in a “market-dominated world” Note: I reviewed this book when it was first published and recently re-read it while…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Heidi Grant Halvorson 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…
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Dave Horsager is an author, business strategist, and keynote speaker. Through his book, The Trust Edge: How Top Leaders Gain Faster Results, Deeper Relationships, and a Stronger Bottom Line, and programs he shares the secrets of using trust to impact the…
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Anna Bernasek is the author of The Economics of Integrity: From Darwin to Toyota, How Wealth Is Based on Trust & What That Means for Our Future, published in 2010 by harperstudio, an imprint of Harper Collins. In Chapter 6,…
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In Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built published by Harper Collins (2003), Richard Tedlow devotes an entire chapter to what he characterizes as “searing” business insights. These are comparable with religious epiphanies, what George Fox…
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François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, freedom of expression, free trade and separation…
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Into the Storm: Lessons in Teamwork from the Treacherous Sydney to Hobart Race Dennis N.T. Perkins with Jillian B. Murphy AMACOM (2012) The power of exceptional teamwork and distributed leadership when people are pressed to the limits of human endurance…
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Who is Theodore Dalrymple and why is he important?
Briefly, Anthony (A.M.) Daniels (born in 1949), who generally uses the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, is a British writer and retired prison doctor and psychiatrist. Before his retirement in 2005, he worked as a doctor and psychiatrist in a hospital…
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