Tue.Nov 22, 2011

First Friday Book Synopsis

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Maybe We’re Too Enamored with the New – What Can We Learn from the Old, the Enduring?

First Friday Book Synopsis

This is the text I wrote for an announcement e-mail for the next Urban Engagement Book Club, which meets on December 1, here in Dallas (at the Highland Park Methodist Church, next door to SMU). I decided to share it here. —————- We are enamored with the new. We want the new, new thing. We [.].

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Sorry, Strivers: Talent Matters

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an article written by David Z. Hambrick and Elizabeth J. Meinz that was featured in the The New York Times (November 19, 2011). I urge you to click on the links to che vk oyt the sources to which the arricle refers. Also, I highky recommend a recently published book, The Rare Find: [.].