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A few more of our favorite Axioms: • The big picture • What’s next • What we’re watching • What we’re hearing • Between the lines
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
The economist Milton Friedman once wrote: Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becom
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Globally, America has grown more alarmed about its enemies, less generous toward its friends, more wary of everybody.
Neil Howe • The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
Investigations into Palestinian Authority corruption or Abbas’s rejection of peace offers are simply quashed, while exposés of Israeli intransigence merit headlines. Friedman believes the reason is anti-Semitism, the willingness to associate Jews with the worst traits in today’s world, namely, militarism, colonialism, and racism.
Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
A HOLISTIC ATTITUDE.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
A world of flat organizations and tumultuous business conditions—and that’s our world—punishes fixed skills and prizes elastic ones.
Daniel H. Pink • To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others
Fourth is “flatness.” As globalization advances, people perceive the world as one homogeneous, highly competitive marketplace: the world is “flat.” Given that assumption, anyone who might have had the ambition to look for a secret will first ask himself: if it were possible to discover something new, wouldn’t someone from the faceless global talent
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