Kategorie: Management & Entrepreneurship
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Book Of The Week 100 Million Hair Ties And A Vodka Tonic Part Ii
Trelles-Tvede, Sophie (2020). 100 Million Hair Ties and a Vodka Tonic An Entrepreneur’s Story. Story behind the Book Choice Last week, I started discussing Sophie Trelles-Tvede’s book about the founding and expansion of invisibobbles but I did not get through with the reading (Part I). That is obviously why I have to do my remaining…
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Bureaucracy And Power
Gerth, H. H., and C. Wright Mills, eds. (2009). From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, 232. Story behind the Passage There is no way of doing justice to Max Weber in one short blog post — so I am not even going to try. I simply have to write about the topic today because it is increasingly…
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Special Dear Gaas 3 Pragmatic Suggestions
About the DGfA/GAAS — Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien Story behind the Passage This Special should not have been written. But I could not resist. I received a New Year’s Letter from the German Association for American Studies (GAAS) this past week that brought the entire issue to my attention again. I am not going to write about…
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What Is Philosophy
Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson (1999). Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought, 539. Story behind the Passage When I finished my PhD in 2013, I was awarded the “Doctor of Philosophy.” In fact, my field is American Studies, which is mostly culture and literature. It took me until AFTER…
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Studying Patience
Sutter, Matthias (2014). Die Entdeckung der Geduld: Ausdauer schlägt Talent, 10. Story behind the Passage More or less accidentally, I just read the book by Matthias Sutter. I had just intended to look up a few passages but then I went through it all. It was easily possible because it is a collection of some of…
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Book Of The Week Sacred Hoops Spiritual Lessons Of A Hardwood Warrior
Jackson, Phil and Hugh Delehanty (1995). Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior. Story behind the Book Choice I have no idea how I became aware of this book and when exactly I bought it. But I know exactly, why I bought it. Sports, leadership, and spirituality — these are the things that move me and at…
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Theory
Kant, Immanuel (1999/1787). Critique of Pure Reason. Story behind the Passage Yesterday I had an intense discussion that really made me a bit angry. I caught myself fiercely defending the value of the comprehensive universities (as opposed to universities of applied sciences and all the different commercial variants we are seeing today). All of these institutions…
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Education And Money
Khurana, Rakesh (2007). From Higher Aims to Higher Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession, 87. Story behind the Passage Let us keep it very simple: Everything is about money in this world and this even strikes people who did believe in the pragmatic function…
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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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Questions And Interventions
Blanchard, Ken, and Michael O’Connor (1997). Managing by Values, 85. Story behind the Passage Currently, I am dealing with Byron Katie’s “The Work” method again. It is a powerful method on how to get rid of negative self-images. I am not going to talk about her today, I might do it in some other post. The…