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March 2018
Lead Yourself First
“Our mission is to plant ourselves at…a different, sometimes lonely place, the place of truth-telling, about your own soul first of all and its condition, the place of resistance and defiance, the piece of ground from which you see the world both as it is and as it could be, …
What Emerson, Captain Willard, and William Deresiewicz Say about Leadership
“he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from traveling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions” – Emerson In October 2009, the Yale English professor, author, and literary critic William Deresiewicz delivered a …
The Multitasking Myth
In 1959, Peter Drucker wrote about “knowledge workers”, in his book The Landmarks of Tomorrow. In 2018, there is still no universally agreed upon definition for the term knowledge worker. However, examples of knowledge workers are software engineers, project managers, physicians, engineers, scientists, accountants, lawyers, and academics, all workers whose jobs require non-routine …