Sublime

Maria Montessori (1870-1952),

All the teachers I worked with—Myrna Lewis, Adam Kahane, LeAnne Grillo, Joseph Jaworski, Otto Scharmer, Matt Gelbwaks, Grady McGonagill, and many others—are phronimos, people of practical wisdom.

For reasons that we’re coming to, it may well be that you have more aptitude—and more flair—for some activities that you’ve already tried than you realize.

He suggests that there are eight different learning styles.

Exercise Four: What Are You Good At?

but one that was absolutely key was the type of leader who in every case led the company into greatness.

Between 1990 and 1995, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and his students exhaustively studied ninety-one exceptional innovators. “If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others,” Csikszentmihalyi noted in Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention, “it would be complexity. By this I mean that they