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Compass quote

compasses only tell the directions,not which one to follow Maclean, N. (1992). Young men and fire. Univ. of Chicago Press. Leaders choose which direction to follow. They can make that decision any number of different ways, but the leader makes… (read more)

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Off the Shelf: January 2022 (skunkworks)

I’m reading two other books on the “whitespace” in organizations at the moment when I came across this HBR article that I had clipped some time before. In my experience, “whitespace” in an organization is usually defined as the space… (read more)

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Off The Shelf: December 2021 (antitrust and Amazon)

I read much but finished little in December. Sometimes that happens—I have a tendency to have too many books going at once. Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox In an effort to better my understanding of monopolies and antitrust, I picked up an… (read more)

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Off the Shelf: November 2021

It wasn’t a terribly exciting reading month. In alphabetical author order: The Long Way to a small, Angry planet This was recommended to me because I so thoroughly enjoy Nathan Lowell’s space series and was trying not to read Captain’s… (read more)

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Off the Shelf: October 2021 (Snow Crash and the metaverse)

I first read Stephenson’s Snow Crash in after hearing it described while attending an ICCM event in the late 1990s. It was one of those “read it now because this future is coming” books and I devoured it at the… (read more)

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Off the Shelf: September 2021 (Two on Democracy)

I read several books in September, some just for fun; two in particular touch on Democracy1 in some unique ways. One is science fiction and the other a collection of essays. I find them both valuable in that they can… (read more)

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Off the Shelf: August 2021 (The Created)

August 2021 saw me reading many more books than I had anticipated. Some were re-reads, some were fiction and some were for information. One was all three. The Created McCloskey’s The Created is a fictional book that I re-read for… (read more)

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Off the Shelf: July 2021 (The Checklist Manifesto)

Of all the several books I read in July, the most impactful was The checklist manifesto, by Atul Gawande. The Checklist Manifesto Early in the book Gawande introduces research proposing that there are “three different kinds of problems in the… (read more)

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Off the Shelf: June 2021

Most of June’s reading was for fun, but each stands out for something unique. I first put I sing the body electric! on my e-reader a few months ago because I knew I’d soon be needing a collection of short… (read more)

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Off the Shelf: May 2021

Looking back at the month, I finished more books in May than I had thought, including two that I’ve been working on for a long time and two that I rushed since the Library wanted them back sooner rather than… (read more)

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