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The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone—Especially Ourselves
“Essentially, we cheat up to the level that allows us to retain our self-image as reasonably honest individuals.” — Dan Ariely In his book, The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to...
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4 Must-Read Books on Storytelling
Stories are the way in which we teach moral lessons, keep an audience engaged in what we’re saying, and convince others to pursue a course of action. In the business world, where time is short, and you...
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Neil Gaiman on The Importance of Reading, Libraries, and Imagination
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. — Albert Einstein Neil Gaiman, who brought us one of the best...
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Fuel Injected Cessna Checklist It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of Atul Gawande. A reader recently pointed out that I hadn’t covered his most recent book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things...
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The Structure of a Story
“Human beings master the basics of storytelling as young children and retain this capability throughout their lives.” — Stephen Denning When psychologist T. A. Harley researched the academic literature...
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Anne Lamott: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
That tweet from Kathryn Schulz set off my quest to find Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. If you’ve ever wondered how I find things, this is a perfect example. And...
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In response to Ernest Hemingway on Writing a reader passed along a pointer to Advice to Writers, “a compendium of quotes, anecdotes, and writerly wisdom from a dazzling array of literary lights.” Jon...
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Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie, author of Americanah, one of The New York Times’s ten best books of the year, tells the story of how she...
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“Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.” — William Archer Joan Didion famously remarked that “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” She was right. Business has become a story too. If...
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Survivorship bias refers to the idea that we get a false representation of reality when we base our understanding only on the experiences of those who live to tell their story. Taking a look at how we...
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