Karl Krayer and I will soon complete our 13th full year of hosting the First Friday Book Synopsis. At each of our monthly meetings, Karl and I each present a synopsis of a best selling business book. For nearly half that time, I have also presented synopses every month for the Urban Engagement Book Club… Read More A Suggested Reading List For Those Interested In Issues of Social Justice And Poverty
Without comment, from The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World’s Toughest Problems by Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin: It is an empirical fact that most of the world’s cities live forever. Corporations, on the other hand, live half as long as the average human being… Corporations, in the name of… Read More The Life Span of Corporations – A Quote for the Day from The Power of Positive Deviance
Bob Morris, my blogging colleague and general all around font of amazing knowledge and wisdom, reads books by the bushel full. I read fewer – far fewer. And, more times than not, in the last couple of years, I have chosen a book that Bob tells me “would be a good one for the First… Read More The Power of Positive Deviance – One of the Two Good Books for this Friday’s First Friday Book Synopsis
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