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Peter Gray on “The play deficit”

First Friday Book Synopsis

Bob''s blog entries Aeon Alex Webb/Magnum Baudrémont Boston College Children at Play: An American History (2007) France Free to Learn (2013) Howard Chudacoff Le Grandes Meaulnes Meuse Peter Gray on "The play deficit" Psychology (2011)' You can see a selection of Aeon’s most popular essays by […].

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Everything Is Obvious: A book review by Bob Morris

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Watts Crown Business ((2011) “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Everything Is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us Douglas J. Voltaire I chose the observation by Voltaire for the title of this review because I agree with him as well as with an observation made by Douglas Watts [.].

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Shortlist Announced for Financial Times and Goldman Sachs “Business Book of the Year” Award

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Thursday September 15th, 2011: The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs today announced the shortlist for the seventh annual Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award (www.ft.com/bookaward), which aims to identify the book providing the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues.

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Adrian J. Slywotsky, Part Two: An interview by Bob Morris

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Slywotzky is a consultant and author of several books on economic theory and management. He graduated from Harvard College and holds a JD from Harvard Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has worked as a consultant since 1979 and is currently a partner at Oliver Wyman.