Wednesday, May 19, 2010

AUTHENTIC HAPPINESS - "Using new positive psychology to realize your potential for lasting fulfillment", Seligman, 2004

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Martin Seligman, director of the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, has been called the leading spokesman for Pos...

THE OPPOSABLE MIND - "How successful leaders win through integrative thinking'', Martin, 2007.

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The book starts with the key following sentence: “What distinguishes a brilliant leader from a conventional one?” The essential argu...
Thursday, May 13, 2010

Funky Business: Talent Makes Capital Dance by J. Ridderstrale and K. Nordström

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“Evolution is not right or wrong, it just is” (p17). Although this statement seems relatively simple it perfectly reflects the changes that ...

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by T. Friedman

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The World is Flat is a reflection about the globalization that is taking place nowadays. This topic is indeed not new, and has been debate...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

How to Change the World - Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas by David Bornstein

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“ Every change begins with a vision and a decision to take action ”. This is what the book is all about. It took Mr. Bornstein more than 5...

The End of Poverty - Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey D. Sachs

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What some of us spend on food only in one day exceeds what an African family spends in months. Everyday, more than 15000 human beings are ...

Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits , by Crutchfield and Grant

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Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant studied 2000 different non-profit organizations in order to identify 12 in which they would use ...

Leadership Without Borders: Successful Strategies from World-Class Leaders, Cohen, 2007

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In this book, Ed Cohen addresses what current and future leaders need to know about how to be a successful global leader in today’s world. I...

Strengths-Finder 2.0: Now, Discover Your Strengths, Rath, 2010

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Tom Rath’s book is an international bestseller which provides a detailed strengths-finder assessment. This is a new and improved version and...

Chaos: Making a New Science, by James Gleick

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James Gleick, formerly a science writer for the New York Times, wrote this bestselling book, Chaos: Making a New Science, in order to help p...

“The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable” by Patrick Lencioni.

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Lencioni’s book outlines the five typical dysfunctions that teams commonly face and how to understand and overcome them. The core issues tha...

“A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future” by Daniel Pink

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As the title explains, the core message of Daniel Pink’s second published book is that in today’s world, those that think with their ‘right ...

Five Minds For the Future

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Harvard Graduate School for Education professor Howard Gardner reveals the Five Minds for the Future that represents the five different f...

Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology

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Harvard Business school professor Henry W Chesbrough wrote the book titled Open Innovation , catering to the modern business environment. ...
Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Adventures in Complexity

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Prof. Holbrook from Columbia University has written excellent article titled "Adventures in Complexity: An Essay on Dynamic Open Comple...

Workshop and Brainstorming Session: Leadership and the Global Agenda in the 21st Century

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Here is a summary of some of the key points we will discuss and brainstorm together in our workshop this week: Global Complex Problems · Ha...