365 Books: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni

Teamwork is hard. Getting leaders - especially senior leaders - to operate as a team is hard. Nobody likes Team Building exercises because they are usually really dumb and don't do any good. About a million years ago, I read an article - perhaps it was in Fast Company or maybe Sloan - about a …

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365 Books: Freaks of the Storm by Randy Cerveny

How can you resist a subtitle like "The World's Strangest True Weather Stories"? Or, I guess, how could I? I actually think this might have been a gift from my friend, Cindy who, if she had been born in a different time and family, may have become a storm-chaser. Whenever we're traveling together, if there's …

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365 Books: Jack the Ripper by Stewart Evans and Paul Gainey

The book about Jack the Ripper starts with... Lincoln's assassination. Yep. Now you may be asking yourself what this presidential murder has to do with Jack the Ripper. Jack the Ripper did not murder Lincoln. In the aftermath of the apprehension of the Lincoln's assassins, the net spread wide and far, and a guy named …

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