Loehr, Jim, and Tony Schwartz. The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal. New York: Free Press, 2003. Mankins, Michael, and Eric Garton. Time Talent Energy: Overcome Organizational Drag and Unleash Your Team’s Productive Power. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2017. Zak, Paul J. Trust […]
Hartmann, Thom. The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It’s Too Late. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004. [Read an excerpt.] Cahoone, Lawrence. The Orders of Nature. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2013. [Read 1st chapter.] Thomas, Chris D. Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving […]
Tashiro, Ty. Awkward: The Science of Why We’re Socially Awkward and Why That’s Awesome. New York: William Morrow, 2017. Read an excerpt of Chapter 1 here. When it is appropriate, most people like being seen. Seen for who they are, for what they contribute, and for their creativity. Appropriateness depends on the context. In contexts […]
Russell, Helen. The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World’s Happiest Country. London: Icon Books, 2015. Hygge. Danish for something cozy, charming, or special. It is also the art of creating intimacy. Author Helen Russell explores how hygge might be one of the secrets of Denmark’s perennial position in the top ranks […]
Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. New York: Penguin Books, 2004. 1689. Kant, Immanuel. The Metaphysics of Morals. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 1797. Lewin, Kurt. Principles of Topological Psychology. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1936. Bauman, Zygmunt. Liquid Modernity. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. Bartow, Jef. Resolving the Mysteries of Human Consciousness: […]
Waddell, Steve. “Four Strategies for Large Systems Change.” Stanford Social Innovation Review 16, no. 2 (2018): 40-45. To achieve societal outcomes for everyone, everywhere, everyday within any given social system requires bringing together peoples with access to different economic resources, different political decision making and enforcement systems, different values, and different organizing forms. It requires […]
Strogatz, Steven H. The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity. 2012, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Randall, Lisa. Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions. 2006, New York: Harper Perennial. Kant, Immanuel. The Metaphysics of Morals. ed, Mary Gregor, 2007, New York: Cambridge University Press. Some ideas […]
Klarman, Michael J. The Framer’s Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution. 2016, New York: Oxford University Press. Kishtainy, Niall. A Little History of Economics. 2017, New Haven: Yale University Press. Are the agreements that we live with today, whether consciously chosen or unconsciously accepted, the only agreements that are possible? Are they “true,” in the sense […]
Bryanton, Rob. Imagining the Tenth Dimension: A New Way of Thinking About Time and Space. 2006, Oxford, UK: Trafford Publishing. For thousands of years, we had the rich inner pictures we perceived from elaborate storytelling. Then there were the 2D images in black-and-white then in color on the big movie screen. Now we have 3D images popping […]
Makari, George. Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind. 2015, New York: W.W. Norton & Company. What am I as a human being? What is it to be human? I find that most of us ask those questions all of the time, thinking that we never ask them. We often say that these are philosophical questions, of little […]
