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"Limits are an artist's best friend." —Frank Lloyd Wright In his book, "A Whack on the Side of the Head", author and creativity expert...

In describing how he wrote the book, "Mind Wide Open", author Steven Johnson discusses a challenge we're all familiar with—deciding what...

In their book, "The Courage to be Disliked" authors Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga introduce the reader to Adlerian Psychology. This...

How Innovation Works examines the key ingredients of successful innovation. Using a host of historical examples, Ridley dispels many of...

I recently heard Twilio CEO, Jeff Lawson, interviewed on a podcast. During the conversation, the host asks an intriguing question—"what's...

Arthur Schopenhauer was a renowned nineteenth-century German philosopher. Essays and Aphorisms is a collection of his thoughts on a wide...

"Innovation is a collective phenomenon that happens between not within brains." Matt Ridley, How Innovation Works In his book, How...

Don't let the title fool you, this book is bigger than IT and DevOps; it is a book about creating order from chaos, about growing up as...

External circumstances are beyond our control. High-level performance requires that we learn to work with this fact. If we don't learn...

Carol Dweck and others argue that there are two competing theories on intelligence. "Entity theorists" attribute success or failure to...

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