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Spark: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success Angie Morgan, Courtney Lynch, and Sean Lynch Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (January 2017) Without ignition, nothing happens and nothing gets done To what does the title of this book refer? Its…
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In his recently published book, Your Creative Mind, Scott Cochrane explains how to disrupt your thinking, abandon your comfort zone, and develop bold new strategies. Many people have become hostage to what Jim O’Toole so aptly characterizes as “the ideology…
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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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Million Dollar Maverick: Forge Your Own Path to Think Differently, Act Decisively, and Succeed Quickly Alan Weiss Bibliomotion (May 2016) How and why “simply taking a contrarian or one-off view” – and acting on it – can be the secret…
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Right Moves: The Conservative Think Tank in American Political Culture since 1945 Jason Stahl University of North Carolina Press (2016) A brilliant analysis of the impact of the current “marketplace of policy values and ideas,” for better or worse I…
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Eyal Winter is professor of economics and the former director of the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, one of the world’s leading institutions in the academic study of decision making. He served as…
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Eyal Winter is professor of economics and the former director of the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, one of the world’s leading institutions in the academic study of decision making. He served as…
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Persuadable: How Great Leaders Change Their Minds to Change the World Al Pittampalli HarperBusiness/Imprint of Haroer Collins (January 2016) Why leaders should demand to know whatever they need to know, especially if it is not what they think Those who…
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Persuadable: How Great Leaders Change Their Minds to Change the World Al Pittampalli HarperBusiness/Imprint of Harper Collins (January 2016) Why leaders should demand to know whatever they need to know, especially if it is not what they think they know…but…
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Going Out In Style: Famous Last Words Of 19 Greats
One of our three sons, Geoffrey, introduced me to an especially interesting website — All That Is Interesting (ati) — at which the resources include Camille Poiré’s “Going Out In Style: Famous Last Words Of 19 Greats.” For example, here…
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