Kategorie: Allgemein
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Book Of The Week Cradle To Cradle
McDonough, William, and Michael Braungart (2002). Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. Story behind the Book Choice The reason why I have chosen this book is very simple: Yes, I am reading a lot but I have not read much about sustainability yet. That also means, to simply admit it: I do not…
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Reading And Writing
Al-Khalili, Jim (2010). Im Haus der Weisheit: Die arabischen Wissenschaften als Fundament unserer Kultur, 396. Story behind the Passage Did you ever wonder why we usually say “children learn to read and write” in school? We do not say “write and read.” And the reason for this is very easy: reading comes first. It has taken…
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Naming Happiness
Friedan, Betty (1997/1963). The Feminine Mystique. Story behind the Passage In one of my reading circles, we discussed Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique today. So, that is a straightforward story behind today’s choice, right? The thing that I thought about most while preparing the text is the issue of naming. Obviously, Friedan has become known as…
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Coaching Not Coaches
Fischer-Epe, Maren (2015/2002). Coaching: Miteinander Ziele erreichen, 175. Story behind the Passage Today, I had a wonderful meeting with a person I had never met before. This person said a remarkable sentence: “The world needs coaching, not coaches.” He based this on a similar saying about something else which I forgot. I had never heard…
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People Or Things
Clark, Tim, et al. (2012). Business Model You: A One-Page Method for Reinventing your Career, 23. Story behind the Passage This topic could be my blog topic every day. But today, it really hit me in the face again with extreme power. There is no answer to the question. Maybe there is consolidation. In any case,…
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Book Of The Week Good To Great Part I
Collins, Jim (2001). Good to Great: Why some companies make the leap and others don’t. Story behind the Book Choice Today is one of these days again when I will not get through with the reading. But it does not matter. I got done with many other things today that are more important. Success is all…
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Sane Choices
Frankl, Viktor E. (2006/1959). Man’s Search for Meaning, 66. Story behind the Passage Before I say anything: Nobody in the “free world” nowadays has the right to compare his/her situation with the one of Viktor Frankl while he was in the concentration camp. So, I just want to make clear that anything I am going to…
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The Business Koan
Miura, Isshu, and Ruth Fuller Sasaki (1965). The Zen Koan: Its History and Use in Rinzai Zen, 5. Story behind the Passage I am struggling with a business problem again that keeps coming back. And today, it hit me completely unexpectedly. Whenever I think of so many other things that seem to be three steps beyond…
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Justice Matters
Spiesser, Ronja Serena (2013). Und in fünf Jahrenhabe ich Recht: Was man wissen muss, bevor man Jura studiert, 21. Story behind the Passage There is one particular trait that characterizes some people: they are crazy about justice. Some of them become lawyers and this is where they have to learn that “being right and being…
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The Prison Of Thinking
Davis, Angela Y. (2016). Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. Story behind the Passage To say it straight away — the passage above by Davis has little to do with the topic of my poem today. Still, the two came together today. I discussed Davis in a reading group today…