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Culture And Politics
CultureReport. Eunic Yearbook 2017/2018. Mafaldo Dâmaso, 151. Story behind the Passage This passage is from a book that I picked up at a huge Middle Eastern conference three years ago. It was actually the last academic conference I attended, I think. If it will remain the last academic conference I ever attended, I do not know….
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Recovery With Growth
Jackson, Tim (2009). Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet, 17. Story behind the Passage Today in the car, I was listening to the news on the radio. One thing they reported about was the fact that Frankfurt Airport was recovering from Covid because the economic performance is picking up speed again. Of course, there…
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Slug Sex
Stable, Michele, and Linda Gamlin (1990). Wissen für Kinder: Tiere, 15. Story behind the Passage No, I am not kidding. Yesterday in the garden while chaffing some wood, I happened to notice a slug couple underneath a shadowy bush. Actually, that was the bush where I had buried the snake from a few weeks ago. The…
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Will Moves Mountains
Cliff, Jimmy (1970). “You Can Get It if You Really want.” Musixmatch Story behind the Passage How much needs to happen for people to finally ACT? I am not talking about any specific action. I am simply talking about my life-long topic: the gap between thinking, talking, and acting. The question is always on my…
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Soccer Language And Leadership
Roberts, Wess (1987). Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun, 25. Story behind the Passage Today in a conversation, I suddenly noticed that 80% of our analogies revolved around soccer. We compared business characters to famous players, we talked about certain moves in a way that you describe a player’s typical position in the game. And altogether…
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Book Of The Week Teresa Von Avila
Prinz, Alois (2017). Teresa von Avila: Die Biographie. Geschichte hinter der Buchauswahl Diese Biographie über Teresa von Avila ist sozusagen eine Biographie über die Biographie. Teresa selbst schrieb zu ihren Lebzeiten ihre Geschichte in La Vida auf. Prinz integriert Erkenntnisse aus dieser und weiteren Schriften in seine eigene historische Recherche. Diese Mischung erlaubt es, zwischen…
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Book Of The Week Projekt Weltethos
Küng, Hans (1990). Projekt Weltethos. Story behind the Passage This book was recommended to me by my pastor. Well, he is not exactly “my” pastor, of course, and I am not even “his” church member anymore, but that is a different story. Or, wait a minute, actually, it is not a different story at all!…
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Transformation From The Right Place
Goleman, Daniel (2013). Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence, 255. Story behind the Passage The title might not sound like the most telling one ever. After all, I am the one always preaching that “right” and “wrong” are relative evaluations. But just calling the post “Transformation” would have been insufficient. If there is one thing…
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Money Or Politics
Wallace, Janet (2012). The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age, 196. Story behind the Passage The day before yesterday when I wrote about Wall Street women, I was quite surprised that I had not written about Hetty Green yet. Or maybe I have and I am simply too stupid to Google my…
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Book Of The Week Higher Calling The Rise Of Nontraditional Leaders In Academia
Beardsley, Scott C. (2017). Higher Calling: The Rise of Nontraditional Leaders in Academia. Story behind the Book Choice Of all the books I have discussed on Sundays during my 365-day blogging challenge so far, this one is by far the most important one — for me. Book choices, as I repeatedly say, are highy subjective, of course,…