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Berlekamp came to realize that much of human interaction is colored by shades of gray that he sometimes found difficult to discern.
Gregory Zuckerman • The Man Who Solved the Market
Philosophy of Right
T.Z. Lavine • From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest
This path develops what’s most lacking in our outwardly oriented society: an “inner greatness.” We’ve been conditioned to associate greatness with people who’ve achieved power or fame in the outside world, such as a Napoleon or a Thomas Edison.
Phil Stutz • The Tools: 5 Tools to Help You Find Courage, Creativity, and Willpower--and Inspire You to Live Life in Forward Motion
See Charlie Kiefer’s cameo “Executive Team Leadership,” (page 435).
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
Aristotle believed in the active realization of human potential.
President Roosevelt remarked that King was so tough that he shaved with a blowtorch and trimmed his toenails with torpedo net cutters.10 His intelligence, energy, and organizational abilities won the respect of all those who worked with him; unlike his Army counterpart, George C. Marshall, however, he never gained their reverence or affection.
Eliot A. Cohen • Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War
This is something even the feared military leader General George S. Patton understood all too well. When it came to how his soldiers dressed, how they carried themselves on and off the battlefield, and even how they saluted, Patton was as old school as they came. But when it came to how those same soldiers named and decorated their tanks, well, Old
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