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Monday, August 11, 2014

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself

Contributors, Richard Boyatzis ...
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The path to your professional success starts with a critical look in the mirror.

If you read nothing else on managing yourself, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles to select the most important ones to help you maximize yourself.

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself will inspire you to:
Stay engaged throughout your 50+-year work life
Tap into your deepest values
Solicit candid feedback
Replenish physical and mental energy
Balance work, home, community, and self
Spread positive energy throughout your organization
Rebound from tough times
Decrease distractibility and frenzy
Delegate and develop employees' initiative

This collection of best-selling articles includes: "Managing Oneself," "Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey?" "How Resilience Works," "Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time," "Overloaded Circuits: Why Smart People Underperform," "Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life," "Reclaim Your Job," "Moments of Greatness: Entering the Fundamental State of Leadership," "What to Ask the Person in the Mirror," and "Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance."

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

論語中的名言

南懷瑾著
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《論語》是中華文化最偉大不朽的經典之一，記錄了孔子的重要思想言行，內容博大精深。其中許多警句名言裡所包含的思想，體現人類普世價值，兩千多年來歷經無數考驗卻始終萬古常新，顛簸不破，被古今中外奉為為人處世、安身立命的金科玉律。南懷瑾先生青年時期即遍研儒家經典，對《論語》的精髓有著深刻的體悟。

《論語中的名言》是從南懷瑾先生的《論語別裁》中精選而來。讀者可以通過南先生對《論語》名言深入淺出充滿睿智的解釋，輕鬆喜悅地進入《論語》的境界，深入領會《論語》的真義，對增長處世智慧，提高自身的人生價值大有裨益。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Monday, August 4, 2014

50 Spiritual Classics: Timeless Wisdom From 50 Great Books of Inner Discovery, Enlightenment and Purpose

Tom Butler-Bowdon
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50 Spiritual Classics captures the diversity of life journeys that span centuries, continents, spiritual traditions and secular beliefs: from the historical The Book of Chuang Tzu to modern insight from the Kabbalah, from St. Augustine’s Confessions to Eckhart Tolle’s recent The Power of Now, from Don Miguel Ruiz’s The Four Agreements to Rick Warren’s phenomenon The Purpose-Driven Life. The first and only bite-sized guide to the very best in spiritual writing, this one-of-a-kind collection includes personal diaries and compelling biographies of such diverse figures as Gandhi, Malcolm X, and Black Elk; Eastern philosophers and gurus including Krishnamurti, Yogananda, Chögyam Trungpa and Suzuki; and Western saints and mystics such as St. Francis of Assisi, Herman Hesse and Simone Weil.

In its commentaries of both the conventional classics as well as new writings destined to endure, 50 Spiritual Classics makes universal the human spiritual experience beyond time and space and will inspire spiritual seekers everywhere to begin their own adventure.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

從卡夫卡到昆德拉︰20世紀的小說和小說家

吳曉東著

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回顧剛剛逝去的20世紀文學，冠以經典的蓋棺論定或許言之尚早。但吳曉東在經大講壇上推崇的從卡夫卡到昆德拉這九位小說家，卻無疑稱得上大師；他在課堂上選作闡釋分析對象的九篇作品也已經或終將被證明為不朽。因此，吳曉東對他心儀小說家的獨具慧眼的研究、對他欣賞小說的別有會心的解讀，不失為一種對20世紀現代派文學的回顧和盤點。

雖然作者無意經營小說史的契約，但其宏闊視野卻有助於我們對百年文學脈絡的整體關照和把握，進而領悟已經過去的這個“人類有史以來最複雜的一個世紀”對小說家及小說形式的深層影響，以及為甚麼20世紀的小說令人感到“閱讀不再是一種消遣和享受；閱讀已成為嚴肅的甚至痛苦的儀式”。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Monday, July 28, 2014

Passion and Purpose: Stories from the Best and Brightest Young Business Leaders

John Coleman, Daniel Gulati, W. Oliver Segovia
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Globalization. Sustainability. Technology. Diversity. Learning. Convergence of the public and private sectors. These are the big issues on the minds of young leaders today—the challenges they most want to, and must, pursue.

In Passion and Purpose, dozens of recent Harvard Business School MBAs share personal stories on assuming the mantle of leadership in ways unlike any previous generation. In candid accounts of their successes and setbacks—from launching start-ups to taking on the family business to helping kids in the Arabian Gulf to harnessing new technology and developing clean energy—they reveal how the next generation of ideas, aspirations, and practices are shaping business and redefining leadership around the world.

Drawing on insights from a survey of 500 students from top U.S. business schools, Passion and Purpose provides an overview of big, hot-button issues, followed by firsthand accounts from young leaders who are tackling these issues head-on. Their personal stories are rounded out with broader perspectives from established luminaries in business, academia, and the public sector, including Dominic Barton (Managing Director of McKinsey & Company), Nitin Nohria (dean of Harvard Business School), David Gergen (CNN analyst, presidential advisor and director of Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership), Carter Roberts (CEO of World Wildlife Fund), and many others.

Passion and Purpose offers profound insight into the values and vision of tomorrow’s leaders, and inspiration and ideas for all aspiring leaders who hope to lead change in the world.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)