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Marton’s Great Escape is Worth the Trouble to Find a Copy

First Friday Book Synopsis

I just finished this wonderful book by Kati Marton. Marton was an NPR and ABC news correspondent, who was widowed twice. Her first marriage was to ABC News anchor Peter Jennings, with whom she had two […].

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A Company Without Job Titles Will Still Have Hierarchies

Harvard Business Review

The term “holarchy” made its debut in Ghost in the Machine , a analysis of the human brain and its failings penned by Arthur Koestler in 1967. In his book The Status Syndrome , Michael Marmot details how closely status is aligned with longevity and good health. Think of it as management operating system 3.0. It’s not a new concept.

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Why Peter Drucker’s Writing Still Feels So Relevant

Harvard Business Review

Drucker’s book, Management Challenges for the 21 st Century , is an example. Professor Drucker wrote to me: My father gave [the book] to me as a present 72 years ago when I left Vienna to become a business apprentice in Hamburg… A few months later I discovered [Danish philosopher Soren] Kierkegaard.