Stephen Covey’s bestseller discusses how to integrate seven basic principles of effective living into your basic character to improve your performance from the inside out. The principles are: Be proactive; begin with the end in Mind; put first things first; think win-win; seek first to understand; synergize; sharpen the saw. [Read more…]
Hermann Knell was nineteen when his city was destroyed in an air-raid in March 1945. Knell wonders why Würzburg was destroyed beyond any military necessity. Why was strategic bombing pursued beyond all humane considerations? German Zeppelins bombed London and Paris in World War One. The British found aerial bombing a [Read more…]
As a culture, we often root for the underdog. We love to see teachers motivate students whose every word and gesture reek of defiance. After the initial, yet brief, breaking-in period, movie star teachers cleverly inspire every student to overcome years of poverty and intellectual neglect and to out-achieve their [Read more…]
“Can Asians Think?” asks Mahbubani. If they can, what were they doing during the European Renaissance and the Enlightenment? Not much, it seems. But now, following Japan’s example, a new self-confidence is emerging as Asians consider how their societies have developed in recent years. American fashions prevail amongst the poor, [Read more…]
Matsumae argues that since historical materialism is based on Newtonian science, modern science renders Marxism redundant. Relativity, probability and uncertainty have replaced nineteenth century determinism. Were he alive today, Marx would have accepted the change and adapted his system to accommodate it. Matsumae shows how Western science suffered under the [Read more…]
“The Lawless Roads” are neither! Nowhere is any lawlessness perpetrated against the protagonist, nor does he describe anything akin to a road; it is all potholes at best. He navigates his “lawless” journey via boat, airplane, or donkey. Greene observes: “Like the characters in Chekhov they have no reserves – [Read more…]
David Peace recreates Brian Clough’s disastrous forty-four day management of Leeds United. Interwoven with the main plot is the story of Clough’s successes, assisted by Peter Taylor, as manager of Hartlepools and Derby County. Derby and Leeds were major rivals in the mid-seventies; their managers, Clough and Revie, bitter adversaries, [Read more…]
Almayer marries the adopted Malay child of his patron Captain Lingard and runs his trading post in Sambir, Borneo. Almayer builds a large trading house (his “folly”) in anticipation of wealth. His marriage loveless, Almayer’s affections are invested in his beautiful daughter Nina, who, returning from her European education, elopes [Read more…]
Challenged by Andrew Carnegie to discover the secrets of wealth, Napoleon Hill spent twenty years interviewing five hundred wealthy men and distilling their revelations into thirteen principles of money making described in Think and Grow Rich, a book that made him rich and famous. Necessary qualities are Desire, Faith, Decision, [Read more…]
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