Albert Einstein
One of our three sons, Geoffrey, introduced me to an especially interesting website — All That Is Interesting (ati) — at which the resources include Chris Altman’s “45 Of History’s Most Famous (And Amusing) Insults.” For example: “The trouble ain’t…
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Simply Brilliant: Powerful Techniques to Unlock Your Creativity and Spark New Ideas Bernhard Schroeder AMACOM (October 2016) “Make everything as simple as possible but no simpler.” Albert Einstein In Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All, Tom Kelley…
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Joseph L. Badaracco is the John Shad Professor of Business Ethics at Harvard Business School. He has taught courses on business ethics, strategy, and management in the School’s MBA and executive programs. Badaracco is a graduate of St. Louis University,…
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Award-winning author/speaker/consultant Louis Patler is President of The B.I.T. Group, (www.louispatler.com) a strategic business consulting & training company. Two of his books were on Steve Jobs’ recommended reading list. The J. Walter Thompson Agency named him one of “The 20…
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Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work Joseph L. Badaracco Harvard Business School Press (September 2016) Here’s what you need when making the most difficult decisions Friedrich Hegel once suggested that many of…
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In 1984, Stew Friedman joined Wharton, where he is the Practice Professor of Management. In 2001, he concluded a two-year assignment (while on academic leave) at Ford Motor Company, as the senior executive for leadership development. Total Leadership: Be a…
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Think Simple: How Smart Leaders Defeat Complexity Ken Segall Penguin/Portfolio, An Imprint of Penguin Random House (June 2016) “Make everything as simple as possible but no simpler.” Albert Einstein Einstein’s admonition helps to create a context for Ken Segall’s brilliant…
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2. What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? 3. Three logicians walk into a bar. The bartender asks, “Do all of you want a drink?” The first logician says “I don’t know.” The second…
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Winning the Brain Game: Fixing the 7 Fatal Flaws of Thinking Matthew E. May McGraw-Hill Education (May 2016) How and why “seven flaws of thinking” prevent you from understanding yourself and the world in which you live and work I…
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Sigmund Freud: Anatomy of Creativity
Creating Minds is one of the most enjoyable as well as one of the most informative books I have ever read. Recently, I re-read it and recommend it even more enthusiastically now. I have long admired Howard Gardner’s research on…
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