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This limits the ideas of what we see as possible and many, including me, internalize the “worldly wisdom” that John Maynard Keynes once pointed out, “that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
It makes little sense to practice leadership and put your own professional success and material gain at risk unless it is on behalf of some larger purpose that you find compelling.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Source: Carlo Cipolla, The Basic Law of Human Stupidity
Scott Galloway • The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Success
More than 80 percent of government research money goes to just one hundred academic institutions.3
Derek Bok • Higher Education in America
In order to fund unproductive departments, administrators and faculty at universities have created a new class of shareholder: donors. It may be a good thing, bringing some private sector accountability and common sense to an insular culture. When donors speak, the university may choose to listen, but when they “close their checkbooks,” as Rowan ur... See more
Matter
Alex Karp discusses his new book The Technological Republic with Stanley Druckenmiller at JPMorgan’s Asset Managers CEO Forum.
On elite education: “If you're not delivering a country that's safe, a future better than the past, a country that can even define itself as a country, where basic things like being legal or ill... See more
Palantirx.comwhat expectation does somebody in authority need to meet in order to maintain or gain credibility?”
Sharon Daloz Parks • Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World
