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Breaking The Tetris Effect
Achor, Shawn (2010). The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles that Fuel Success and Performance at Work, 99. Story behind the Passage There are tough days in the life of an entrepreneur and there are even tougher days. But all these days are really worth it. They take you to places where you do not necessarily wanted…
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Blitzscaling Is Not Our Story Part Ii Baby Steps Are
www.history.com Story behind the Passage This morning I made the decision to write a follow-up to yesterday’s story because I was not done in a way. I had talked about how the concept of blitzscaling (Reid Hoffman), i.e., super-fast company growth, does not fit into the European/German narrative of entrepreneurship. Today I want to focus…
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Seeing The Element Inside
Robinson, Ken (2009). The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, 3. Story behind the Passage The story above touched me so much when I first heard about it that I keep writing and talking about it in different contexts. I am writing “heard” about it because, as far as I remember, I first watched…
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Courage Is More Important Than Genius
Thiel, Peter, with Blake Masters (2014). Zero to One: Notes on Startups or How to Build the Future, 5. Story behind the Passage On some days, writing is fucking hard. It does not happen to me very often but it does. The only thing that makes you go on when something is hard is habit. Habit…
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Trump The Talking Doing Gap And American Studies
Sass, Steven A. (1982). The Pragmatic Imagination: A History of the Wharton School 1881–1981, 293. Story behind the Passage Of course, I have to write about the U.S. election today. But I am not going to write about it in the way that people have been talking about it on TV all day, i.e., about…
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Apprenticeship Versus University Education
Coyle, Daniel (2010). The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born, It’s Grown, 64. Story behind the Passage I think a lot about education these days. In fact, I always think about education because it is my life — whether I like it or not. It has taken me up to the present to actually realize and acknowledge this because…
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What Is Academia Don T Ask The Dumbest Generation
Bauerlein, Mark (2009). The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future, 212. Story behind the Passage “Oh, could you please be a little less academic about this?” Have you ever heard this sentence in response to something you said or presented? If yes, you are probably above 30 and graduated…
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How Much Personal Diversity Is Too Much
Cox, Taylor, Jr. (1993). Cultural Diversity in Organizations: Theory, Research, and Practice, 11. Story behind the Passage A few years ago, it must have been in 2015, I gave a talk about diversity management in front of an academic association of cultural and literary studies scholars. To make a long story short: They ripped me…
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Just Read Dear Scholars
Hoff, Benjamin (1982). The Tao of Pooh, 25–26. Story behind the Passage Tomorrow, Nov 20, Germany is going to celebrate the “Day of Reading” (Tag des Vorlesens). This is a day that seeks to raise awareness of the importance of reading, particularly reading to children. As someone who writes books across all genres and for different…
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Excellence Takes Brain
Peters, Thomas J., and Robert H. Waterman Jr. (1982). In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies, 29. Story behind the Passage My best friend is in Japan right now. Getting to know a new culture and learning a new language is not that easy in the middle of a pandemic while wearing a…