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Patricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
Emanating from these lives are larger questions about the measure of a good life and what it means to leave a lasting mark of betterment on an imperfect world: Are achievement and acclaim enough for happiness? Is genius? Is love? Weaving through the narrative is a set of peripheral figures — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, Elizabeth Barrett Br... See more
Maria Popova • Figuring
The advance of human societies fundamentally requires that they continuously attain a balance between order and adaptability. Entrepreneurs are vital to the attainment and maintenance of prosperity because they are, by definition, the ones who push back against incumbent interests and, in so doing, maintain that balance.
Philip Auerswald • The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy
properly scaled human economy or technology allows a diversity of other creatures to thrive.”
Janine M. Benyus • Biomimicry
The Renaissance Soul: Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One by Margaret Lobenstine (New York: Harmony, 2006).
Josh Kaufman • The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast!
The extinction of curiosity stifles our imaginations, paralyzing our ability to author better futures.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class (Forerunners: Ideas First)
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