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As CEO of General Electric, Jack Welch transformed the company and generated controversy. Winning, written with his wife, a former editor of The Harvard Business Review, focuses on his management expertise and highlights his optimism and can-do attitude. According to Publisher’s Weekly, this book is “an admirably concise primer on how to do business.”

 

Bossidy, former CEO of Honeywell, Interntional, and Ram Charan, who has taught at Harvard and Kellogg Business Schools, noticed that most business books focused on developing strategies. A good strategy, though, can only be proven when it becomes a successful practice. In Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things, these two corporate veterans have mapped out how to cultivate this habit.

 

Rand is a writer after my own heart—a philosopher, a screenwriter and playwright. She is best known for her fictional works Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. Through her fiction, Rand developed a theory of objectivism which she called a “philosophy for living on earth.” “My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason his only absolute.”

 

Interestingly, Thurman is the father of actress Uma Thurman, but he is most known for his work as a Buddhist. He was the first Westerner to be ordained as a Tibetan monk and met weekly with the Dalai Lama. Currently, he is a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies at Columbia University. He writes, “What I have learned from these people [Tibetans] has forever changed my life, and I believe their culture contains an inner science particularly relevant to the difficult time in which we live. My desire is to share some of the profound hope for our future that they have shared with me." His titles include Infinite Life, a translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Essential Tibetan Buddhism, Inner Revolution and Circling the Sacred Mountain: A Spiritual Adventure through the Himalayas.

 

This husband/wife team penned the sweeping The Story of Civilization series. In eleven volumes, the Durants have sought to show “the contributions that genius and labor have made to the cultural heritage of mankind.” Dates do not drive the narrative; people do. The Durants explore religious and social customs as well as philosophies, professions, architecture and literature. I remember being in sixth grade and finding these books in the library while I was doing a research paper. The light tone so engaged me that I’d keep going back to the shelves and read parts of the series long after my paper was done. A few years ago, at the Ashburn Library Used Book Sale, I found a complete set of this series on sale for $25. I scooped it up. Now, when I pick up one of the volumes, it’s like being back in that library all over again, holding the possibility of knowing about the past right in my hand.

 

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