Fri.Jun 24, 2011

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“To Read, You Need Mental Silence Except For The Words” – Insight from Johann Hari on the Value of Reading, Especially Reading (Physical) Books

First Friday Book Synopsis

“It turns out, in the age of super-speed broadband we need dead trees to have living minds.&# Johann Hari. ————— I have written earlier about my new found love of my iPad. It has exceeded my greatest expectations. I am reading many, many “samples” of books on both iBooks and Kindle apps. This practice, so [.].

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Ahab at Starbucks

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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Larry Hughes and featured by The Huffington Post. I do not remember when, where, or why I first encountered Larry but during the years since, I have posted reviews of countless books with which he has had either a direct or indirect connection. He characterizes himself [.].

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The Executive’s Compass: A book review by Bob Morris

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The Executive’s Compass: Business and the Good Society James O’Toole Oxford University Press (1995) “The Great Conversation Across the Centuries&# More than 50 years ago, Walter Paepcke founded the Aspen Institute and entrusted to Mortimer Adler the responsibility for devising a program of inquiry that became known as the Executive Seminar.

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3 Ways to Get What You Need from Design

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Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. While the business world may have developed a full-blown love affair with design, very few companies are doing it well. If you’re taking on a corporate design effort, [.].

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Thomas J. DeLong: An interview by Bob Morris

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Thomas J. DeLong is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice in the Organizational Behavior area at the Harvard Business School. Before joining the Harvard Faculty, DeLong was Chief Development Officer and Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Group, Inc., where he was responsible for the firm’s human capital and focused on issues of organizational strategy and organizational change. ??