Kategorie: Book of the Week
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Book Of The Week Factfulness
Rosling, Hans, Rosling, Ola, Rosling Rönnlund, Anna (2019): Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World — And Why Things Are Better Than You Think. Story behind the Book Choice As I mentioned last week, I decided to improve my reading habits again by reading (at least) one new book per week. “New” means: new in my list…
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Book Of The Week The Culture Code
Coyle, Daniel (2018). The Culture Code: Secrets of Highly Successful Groups. Story behind the Book Choice Personally, I am a strong individualist. But I was very privileged to learn in the past that there is some magic to group dynamics. This seemingly illogical formula that the sum can be more than its parts is ‘true.’…
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Book Of The Week Playing Big
Mohr, Tara (2014). Playing Big: A Practical Guide for Brilliant Women Like You. Story behind the Book Choice This upcoming Tuesday I am going to run a workshop on “Gender Diversity” at a graduate school. In preparation for this, I thought it would be nice to finally read Playing Big. The book has been sitting on…
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Book Of The Week The Alliance
Hoffman, Reid, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh (2014). The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age. Story behind the Book Choice This time, it is very easy to understand why I bought this book. It is about talents and employer-employee relationships. This topic has been occupying me since my first days at work after graduating…
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Book Of The Week Elizabeth Arden
Shuker, Nancy (2001). Elizabeth Arden: Beauty Empire Builder. Story behind the Book Choice If you want to learn how women became tycoons, there is no way around the beauty business. This already explains a lot about one of the most fundamental principles of business: solving problems while also sensing a market behind the products you are…
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Book Of The Week The Dragonfly Effect
Jennifer Aaker, Andy Smith, with Carlye Adler (2010). The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways To Use Social Media. Story behind the Book Choice Social media are fascinating to me. They have become part of our lives within less than two decades. Remember, Facebook, which really started the snowball effect, was founded in 2004. But…
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Book Of The Week Der Kleine Kaempfer
Doppler, Klaus (2009). Der kleine Kämpfer und sein Weg ins Glück. Story behind the Book Choice This short book is a treasure. It touched me, it intrigued me, it comforted me. And there is no reason, why it would not do this for others. This book was a gift I gave myself for Christmas. As I…
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Book Of The Week The Richest Man In Babylon
Clason, George S. (1988/1926). The Richest Man in Babylon. Story behind the Book Choice Today is the 100th blog entry anniversary. So far, I have been doing quite well. I enjoy writing on a daily basis. But is blogging for money making? Certainly not, although you write all these articles about “how to make money with…