First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 8, 2012

Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life Steven Johnson Scribner/Simon & Schuster (2004) How and why the brain sciences can help to “open wide the mind’s caged door” I read this book before Steven Johnson’s later works, The Ghost Map (2006) and Where Good Ideas Come From (2011) and then re-read [.].

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QAspire

JANUARY 31, 2010

Posts at QAspire Blog : I started 2010 blogging with a review of Nicholas Bate’s book Instant MBA. Clark is one of the finest books I have read on essence of leadership. I posted a review of the book. Simon Young at iJump posted a video review of my book #QUALITYtweet. I wrote earlier about “ toxic leadership ”.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

In January of 2006, the Poetry Foundation released a landmark study, "Poetry in America," outlining trends in reading poetry and characteristics of poetry readers. As Simon Sinek and others have documented, the best companies and people never lose a sense of why they do what they do. Neither do poets. is astonishing.

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