Kategorie: Leadership & Coaching
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Expectations
Dickens, Charles (1860/61). Great Expectations, 319. Story behind the Passage Yes, Dickens again. This time, I am talking about Great Expectations — the story of Pip, the orphan, whose journey to adulthood is told in this novel. I do not remember many details about the book but I knew today that expectations had to be my topic….
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Saint Boy
https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/58117391 Story behind the Passage Yesterday the most remarkable scene of the Olympics happened. It was a metaphor of contemporary life. It revealed a true Saint. My Learnings Life is a game? We compete with all we have. Some have discuses, Some have spears, Some have fast legs, Others have horses. Go, Saint Boy, go,…
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Learning Like Royal Children
King Abdullah II of Jordan (2012). Our Last Best Chance: A Story of War and Peace, 139. Story behind the Passage Today was a remarkable day in many ways and the most remarkable thing was that I got to talk about education and my vision of it to three different people. All these conversations happened more…
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Bold Visionaries
Brands, H. W. (1999). Masters of Enterprise: Giants of American Business from John Jacob Astor and J. P. Morgan to Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey, 188. Story behind the Passage On most of the days when I write for my blog, I wonder why the heck I called this “Startups Story Learning” at the beginning. After…
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The Devil As Role Model
Weisberger, Lauren (2003). The Devil Wears Prada, 368. Story behind the Passage Maybe it is a sign that I am getting old but I catch myself frequently talking about role models in conversations. Yesterday, I did it again when we were talking about politicians. I asked “where are the role models among the politicians nowadays — the Helmut…
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Bearing Freedom
Bergmann, Frithjof (1977). On Being Free. Kindle. Story behind the Passage It is still so remarkable that all this New Work talk was triggered by a man who wrote his book On Being Free close to five decades ago. Nobody knows exactly how it then ended up as this hype and how he was involved in…
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Soccer Language And Leadership
Roberts, Wess (1987). Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun, 25. Story behind the Passage Today in a conversation, I suddenly noticed that 80% of our analogies revolved around soccer. We compared business characters to famous players, we talked about certain moves in a way that you describe a player’s typical position in the game. And altogether…
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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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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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Philanthrocapitalism
Fisher, Melissa S. (2012). Wall Street Women, 145. Story behind the Passage I got this book in the context of the work I did on business women’s biographies. There was a phase when I was really into this and women’s leadership in general. In fact, people continuously associated the topic with me. At some point, I…