Crossing the Rubicon
We may sometimes feel confident enough to cross a line beyond which there is no return. But what is the actual relation between confidence and success? Can we r...
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The Fog of War
The photo above was taken by Robert Capa, the only civilian photographer to follow the Allied troops landing at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. Capa took 106 photo...
Radical Candor
Kim Scott’s book Radical Candor is a truly fascinating management book. You can tell it is a good book because it is hard to summarize. Each chapter is fi...
The Ajax Dilemma
The Ajax Dilemma is a fantastic interpretation of the Iliad by the classicist philosopher Paul Woodruff, centering on the tensions arising between Ajax, Odysseu...
The Art of the Sale
Economics tells us that selling is about understanding a customer’s needs and delivering a product to meet them. In the world of homo oeconomicus, the success o...
On Office Politics
The exercise of power is not something that solely belongs to the realm of government. One could argue that nearly all organizations are prone to power games. D...