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An intimate and revelatory account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, by an author who has observed the country’s tumultuous changes over the past quarter century More than two decades after teaching English during the early part of China’s economic boom, an experience...

What happens when you put good people in a bad place? That was the question that an experiment in 1971 set out to answer when Stanford University professor and psychologist Philip Zimbardo used funding provided by the U.S. Office of Naval Research to create a make-believe prison in the basement of a university building. Male students were offered the chance to take part in the two-week experiment (and to make $15 per day). All applicants were carefully screened to ensure that they were healthy, emotionally and psychologically stable. 24 men were selected out of 75 that had applied.

Your “helpful” leadership may be organizational cancer. You see it everywhere: employees who cannot complete a task without constant check-ins, team members who manufacture crises, and managers who swoop in to save every struggling project. It looks like dedication, but it creates a...

Are you curious how a culture could survive from the Neolithic Era to the present day? Do you need a compact and entertaining outline of China’s massive history? The very name of China conjures up stunning historical images. From the Great Wall snaking through its mountains to the thousands of terracotta warriors found buried in its Earth, the world is not unfamiliar with the technological feats and vast expanses of the Chinese nation.

Für jeden Autokauf nimmt sich der Deutsche im Durchschnitt 20 Stunden Zeit. Die wirklich wichtigen Entscheidungen im Leben jedoch werden gerne auf morgen, übermorgen und letztlich den Sankt-Nimmerleins-Tag verschoben. Unter Durchhalteparolen schleppt man sich jahrelang auf die verhasste Arbeitsstelle, geht Konflikten zähneknirschend aus dem Weg oder hält eine Partnerschaft am Leben, die schon längst nicht mehr zu retten ist.

In The Very Best Bad Idea, Kirk Westwood steamrolls the long-held premise that right is good and wrong is bad. He paves the way to give anyone who sees situations differently the permission to be proud of their brilliantly unbridled “bad ideas”. 

John Baldoni’s new book on the power of grace is a must-listen for all of us, particularly for anyone seeking to serve in a leadership role. In a world where good manners and courtesy sometimes seem to have gone out of style, this audiobook is a practical guide for bettering relationships in all types of human connections. In a spiritual sense, grace is unearned, and as such, it is yours to use for the betterment of self and others. Grace as a gift is a catalyst for positive change to enable the greater good.