Kategorie: Management & Entrepreneurship
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Decisions
Mintzberg, Henry (1989). Mintzberg on Management: Inside Our Strange World of Organizations, 72–3. Story behind the Passage Last night, I listened to a pretty powerful lecture by an experienced consultant and advisor. The topic was decision-making. Of course, that is a huge topic because life is all about making decisions every single second. As he…
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Radical Experience
James, William (2000). Pragmatism and Other Writings, 338. Story behind the Passage No, the title today is not a typo. You might think so if you happen to know the term “radical empiricism” by William James. I am building on James today but I want to focus more on the concept of experience itself. How…
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Reentry From Error
Al-Ghazali (1107). Deliverance from Error. Story behind the Passage For 318 days, I have been blogging about a book passage or text excerpt now. Every single one of these books stayed in my memory because it had taught me something. Yet, since the reading had mostly taken place a long time ago, the insights were not…
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Work State And Education
Committee of the Corporation, Academical Faculty (1828). Reports on the Course of Instruction in Yale College. 7. Story behind the Passage You know me as a sometimes critical, sometimes silly, sometimes emotional writer. Today, I am all of this together and in addition, I am in a very bleak mood. The pictures reaching us this morning…
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Book Of The Week Teresa Von Avila
Prinz, Alois (2017). Teresa von Avila: Die Biographie. Geschichte hinter der Buchauswahl Diese Biographie über Teresa von Avila ist sozusagen eine Biographie über die Biographie. Teresa selbst schrieb zu ihren Lebzeiten ihre Geschichte in La Vida auf. Prinz integriert Erkenntnisse aus dieser und weiteren Schriften in seine eigene historische Recherche. Diese Mischung erlaubt es, zwischen…
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Goals And Life
Goldratt, Eliyahu M., and Jeff Cox (1992/1984). The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement. Story behind the Passage I have to admit, there is not really a path-breaking passage in the book for me. It is rather the title that made me pick it today: The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement. I wrote about…
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Money Or Politics
Wallace, Janet (2012). The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age, 196. Story behind the Passage The day before yesterday when I wrote about Wall Street women, I was quite surprised that I had not written about Hetty Green yet. Or maybe I have and I am simply too stupid to Google my…
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Transformation From The Right Place
Goleman, Daniel (2013). Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence, 255. Story behind the Passage The title might not sound like the most telling one ever. After all, I am the one always preaching that “right” and “wrong” are relative evaluations. But just calling the post “Transformation” would have been insufficient. If there is one thing…
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Book Of The Week Higher Calling The Rise Of Nontraditional Leaders In Academia
Beardsley, Scott C. (2017). Higher Calling: The Rise of Nontraditional Leaders in Academia. Story behind the Book Choice Of all the books I have discussed on Sundays during my 365-day blogging challenge so far, this one is by far the most important one — for me. Book choices, as I repeatedly say, are highy subjective, of course,…
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History And Change
Ansary, Tamim (2002). West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story, 50. Story behind the Passage Yesterday, my mother drew a remarkable conclusion when talking about a documtentary she had seen about Afghanistan in the 1970s. She said: “They just do not want progress these Taliban. That is always the thing in these…