The Business Romantic

is a clarion call for all those for whom mere business excellence and efficiency are not good enough.

This is a quintessentially romantic posture. In fact, Nietzsche, the German philosopher, described the romantic as a person who always wants to be elsewhere.

the philosopher Isaiah Berlin viewed it as the result of an “unappeasable yearning for unattainable goals.”63 Such yearning placed the romantic in a state of perpetual opposition to conforming norms.

“Our main leisure activity is, by a long shot, participating in experiences that we know are not real.”

As these technological innovations create economic disruptions, they also destabilize our value systems.

We stash our wistful longings away when we enter our cubicles in the morning, our longings for an opportunity to express our truest selves at work, for an experience that makes us feel fully alive in our jobs, throughout our careers.

You will walk away with Rules of Enchantment that show you how to act on your romantic beliefs

app called “meeting mediator” that shows who is dominating the conversation in a meeting.

Evgeny Morozov,