Please feel free to read and use any of these notes taken from various books I have found useful, interesting and worthy of consideration.
LEAN IN — WOMEN, WORK, AND THE WILL TO LEAD
LEAN IN WOMEN, WORK, AND THE WILL TO LEAD BY SHERYL SANDBERG Introduction: Internalizing the Revolution P. 5 “Knowing that things could be worse should not stop us from trying to make them better.” P. 7 “A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.” P. 7 “Conditions for all women will improve when there are more women in leadership roles giving strong and powerful voice to their needs and concerns.” P. 8 “Men are promoted based on potential, while women are...
read moreWhat School Could Be
What School Could Be By Ted Dintersmith Overview “What School Could Be” presents a vision and encouraging ideas of what schools can accomplish if teachers, students and parents work together innovatively to help students develop the skills and ways of thinking needed to flourish in today’s world of fast-paced technological change. According to the author, actual learning happens when we give kids real-world challenges, have them work in groups with other kids and provide them with resources and adult support. If we give students credit...
read moreCreative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education
Creative Schools The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education By Ken Robinson, Ph.D. And Lou Aronica Introduction P. XVIII “We’re all born with immense natural talents, but by the time we’ve been very far into our education system, many of us have lost touch with these talents.” *P. XXII “If you design a system to do something specific, don’t be surprised if it does it. If you run an education system based on standardization and conformity that suppress individuality, imagination and creativity, don’t be surprised...
read moreThe Road to Character
The Road to Character By DAVID BROOKS Introduction P. XI “Most of us have clearer strategies for how to achieve career success than we do for how to develop a profound character.” P. XII “You have to give to receive.” P. XII “You have to surrender to something outside yourself to gain strength within yourself.” P. XII “You have to conquer your desire to get what you crave.” P. XII “Success leads to the greatest failure, which is pride.” P. XII “Failure leads to the greatest success, which is humility and learning.” P....
read moreENGINE of IMPACT: Essentials of Strategic Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector
ENGINE of IMPACT Essentials of Strategic Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector By William F. Meehan III Kim Starkey Jonker Introduction: Strategic Leadership in the Impact Era P. 1 “We are the dawn of a new era—the impact Era—in which non-profits will play an ever more vital role in supporting, safeguarding and sustaining civil society.” P. 19 “The practice of strategic leadership involves not just doing good work but also doing that work in a highly intentional and highly effective way.” P. 19 “An engine of impact, as we call...
read moreTHE FOUR AGREEMENTS: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
THE FOUR AGREEMENTS A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom By Don Miguel Ruiz Introduction P. 4 “It was not your choice to speak English. You didn’t choose your religion or your moral values—they were already there before you were born.” P. 6 “We train our children, whom we love so much, the same way that we train any domesticated animal.” P. 7 “The rewards feels good, and we keep doing what others want us to do in order to get the reward.” P. 12 “The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same...
read moreQuiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
QUIET The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking By Susan Cain Introduction: The North and South of Temperament P.3 “Yet today we make room for a remarkably narrow range of personality styles. We’re told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. We see ourselves as a nation of extroverts-which means that we’ve lost sight of who we really are”. P.4 “If you’re not an introvert yourself, you are surely raising, managing, married to, or coupled with one”. P.4 “Introverts living under the...
read moreThe Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
By Sogyal Rinpoche, with a foreword by the Dalai Lama 1. Death is a natural part of life, which we will all surely have to face sooner or later. There are two ways we can deal with it while we are alive. We can either choose to ignore it or we can confront the prospect of our own death and, by thinking clearly about it, try to minimize the suffering that it can bring. However in neither of these ways can we overcome it. 2. Knowing that I cannot escape it, I see no point in worrying about it. 3. Our state of mind at the time of death can...
read moreMan’s Search for Meaning
By Victor Frankl – P.11: “The central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.” P.12: “He takes a surprisingly hopeful view of man’s capacity to transcend his predicament and discover an adequate guiding truth.” P.16: “I wrote the book within nine successive days.” “I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of a concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones… I therefore felt responsible for...
read moreEmotional Intelligence
By Daniel Goleman – “Anyone can become angry — that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not easy.” Aristotle P. ix “This book is a guide to making sense of the senselessness… our scientific understanding of the realm of the irrational. P xii “… abilities called here emotional intelligence which include self-control, zeal and persistence, and the ability to motivate oneself. And these skills can be taught to...
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