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One Second Ahead: Enhance Your Performance at Work with Mindfulness Rasmus Hougaard with Jacqueline Carter and Gillian Coutts Palgrave Macmillan (2015) How and why being constantly mindful can help accelerate personal growth and professional development With Jacqueline Carter and Gillian…
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Essays in Biography Joseph Epstein Axios Press (2012) The more we learn about others, it seems, the better we understand ourselves…at least sometimes I have read most of Joseph Epstein’s 13 collections of essays dating back to Divorced in America:…
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The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance Josh Waitzkin Free Press/Simon & Schuster (2007) One man’s “inner journey” to achieve his own optimal performance It is important to keep in mind that the material in this book…
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A Playful Path Bernard De Koven Lulu.com (2014) “Games are clues to the future. And their serious cultivation now is perhaps our only salvation.” Bernard Suits This is the latest in a series of books and articles that Bernie De…
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The Well-Played Game: A Player’s Philosophy Bernard De Koven The MIT Press (2013) How and why well-played games become a well-played life, full of joy shared with others As I read and then re-read this new edition of The Well-Played…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Sam Anderson for The New York Times in which he explains “why basketball won’t leave Phil Jackson alone” and why “everyone wants to know what he is doing.” To read…
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“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Michael Jordan “The one…
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The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future — Just Enough Vivek Ranadivé and Kevin Maney Crown Business (2011) The power of prediction-based talent: Intuition on “the other side of complexity” At least a century ago, Oliver Wendell…
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Here is an except from a post featured at Ben’s Blog where Ben Horowitz shares his wit and wisdom about the most important business issues. To read the complete article, check out others, and sign up for a free subscription,…
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Does “practice make perfect”?
At least some people continue to insist that “practice makes perfect.” Does it? No. Decades of research (notably by Anders Ericsson and his associates at Florida State University) leave no doubt that an individual’s peak performance is the result (on…
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