Kategorie: Management & Entrepreneurship
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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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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…
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Two Years Since I Chose Myself
Altucher, James (2013). Choose Yourself! Be Happy, Make Millions, Live the Dream. Story behind the Passage Today, it has been two years exactly since I started Companypoets. On Nov 9, 2018, I signed my first contract with a book client. The decision to “choose myself,” to say it in the words of James Altucher, had happened…
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My Story As A Bystander
Drucker, Peter F. (1994). Adventures of a Bystander, 81. Story behind the Passage Peter Drucker is my hero. I told you before when I discussed a passage from one of his other books (“Management by Objectives”). Do we need heroes? Sure! We all do. Humans love heroes. From childhood onwards, we keep looking for heroes….
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Reading As Serendipity Resolution
Merton, Robert K., and Elinor Barber (2004). The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity, 2. Story behind the Passage Usually, I try to use easy language that everybody can understand — including myself. The title today diverges from this golden rule. Even more disturbing is the fact that I myself did not know about the concept of “serendipity”…
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Out Of The Box Networks Co Redesigning Key Words
Cross, Nigel (2011). Design Thinking, 27. Story behind the Passage Today is Monday and Mondays can be quite shitty sometimes. Of course, this is a self-fulfilling prophecy, I know this. So, today, I am choosing to make my Monday shitty because I label my day this way. In objective terms, my Monday has been quite…
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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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Paradigm Shifts And Humility
Covey, Stephen R. (1989). The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, n.p. Story behind the Passage Yes, I know, this is a long screenshot today. And it is not even from a startup story. I have chosen this story today because I had three conversations in the last 24 hours that made me think of it….