Plato
In recent years, two of the most intellectually stimulating books I have read were written by Anthony Gottlieb: The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance (2000; Second Edition, 2016) and The Dream…
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Here are some quotations from a wide variety of sources. They have nothing in common in terms of subject matter but all help us to understand human nature, even if only a little bit better. “A man may do an…
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Opinions vary about which forms of really dumb thinking are the most common and many of those opinions offer excellent examples of dumb thinking. The opinions I now share are those of several thinkers whom I personally admire. They include…
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Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in the Age of Data Rishad Tobaccowala HarperCollins Leadership/An imprint of HarperCollins (January 2020) How and why great companies achieve an appropriate balance between their data and their story Machines do not possess…
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Conscious: The Power of Awareness in Business and Life Bob Rosen and Emma-Kate Swann John Wiley & Sons (July 2018) “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Pogo the Possum In Plato’s Apology, Socrates is on trial for…
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Winners: And How They Succeed Alastair Campbell Pegasus Books Ltd (2015) What we can learn from winners’ mindsets as well as from their modus operandi Alistair Campbell carefully organized and then presents his material within four Parts. To his substantial…
Read MoreIn an article that appeared in Forbes magazine, Warren Buffett has this to say about habits: “At my age I can’t change my habits. I’m stuck. But you will have the habits twenty years from now that you decide to…
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Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (above) are the focal point of Michael Lewis’s latest book, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, published by W.W. Norton & Company (December 2016). Tversky was a cognitive psychologist who changed the…
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Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right Joseph L. Badaracco Harvard Business Review Press (1997) How to make decisions that could – and probably will — reveal a manager’s basic values and, in some cases, those of…
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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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