Kategorie: Allgemein
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Banana Republic Germany
Banana republic | Definition of Banana republic at Dictionary.com Story behind the Passage Today has been a wonderfully warm, sunny, and pleasant — almost summer — day — in Germany. But you know what? Now I am really close to exploding. This is because I just had a conversation with an international graduate student who shared part of her story with…
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Marketing Squared
Peters, Tom, et al. Management: The Next 50 Years. McKinsey Quarterly 3 (2014): 62. Story behind the Passage “No matter what we do, we will have to sell it to them in some way,” my friend said today in a long conversation about a project we are about to start. It is not even a project…
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Transitions
Gilbert, Elizabeth (2006). Eat, Pray, Love, 325. Story behind the Passage Sometimes I find my books with all these pencil marks and underlinings. Sometimes I just find dog-ears. Today’s book has dog-ears. I do not know why. Maybe I did not have a pencil when I read it? Did I want to protect the book? It…
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Self Esteem And Education
Branden, Nathaniel (1969). The Psychology of Self-Esteem: A New Concept of Man’s Psychological Nature, 105. Story behind the Passage I am really stupid. I know, this sounds like the completely wrong entrée into this post, But let me explain. I am just recognizing how deeply I am into all issues relating to education. In fact, the…
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The Secret Of Teaching Is Not Teaching
Drucker, Peter F. (1994). Adventures of a Bystander, 81. Story behind the Passage Why did it take me so long to find out the secret of teaching? If you want to be a great teacher, you need to let go of any concept of teaching. Instead, you need to be a learner. You need to…
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Either Or Is Killing Dreams
Sher, Barbara (2006): Refuse to Choose: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the LIfe and Career of Your Dreams, 126. Story behind the Passage There are so many endless circles, I cannot count them anymore. There are always two results: interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue are the catch words. But the funny and…
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Show And Tell And Not Vice Versa
Dacey, Linda, and Rebeka Eston (2002). Show and Tell: Representing and Communicating Mathematical Ideas in K-2 Classrooms, 1. Story behind the Passage Language is such a difficult thing. That is why I wish that we would all be using children’s books for communication. Well, or at least, some methods of child pedagogy. I have at…
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Cutting Out The Middle Men
Platform Business Model explained…in under 100 words | Deloitte Switzerland Story behind the Passage As you know, I can be quite passionate about things. The thing I am most passionate about is injustice. Of course, injustice is everywhere and we cannot all turn into Mother Teresas to fight it. Still, people with my personality traits…
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The Prince S Journey
Mertikat, Felix, and Benjamin Schreuder (2010). Jakob. Story behind the Passage Today, the Buckingham Palace announced the passing of Prince Philip. He was 99. The book above is one of the most beautiful and sad ones about mourning that I ever read. My Learnings We knew you from the papers and TV. The tall guy with…
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Goal Orientation As A Mindset
Kepner, Charles H., and Benjamin B. Tregoe (1976/1965). The Rational Manager: A Systematic Approach to Problem Solving and Decision Making, 172. Story behind the Passage Usually, when thinking about management topics, I write about Peter Drucker’s works. If there is one thing that Drucker perfectly balanced (in my view), it is the mixture of deep humanism…