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3. Are you trying new ideas, new techniques, and new technologies, and I mean personally trying them, not just reading about them? Or are you waiting for others to figure out how they can re-engineer your workplace—and you out of that workplace?
High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
Prenons donc pour guide la vérité qui vient de nous apparaître et qui nous enseigne que la meilleure conduite à suivre est de vivre et de mourir en pratiquant la justice et les autres vertus.
Gorgias - Ou Sur La Rhétorique
Platon and Emile Chambry
The problem with dystopian rhetoric is that if people believe that the country is a flaming dumpster, they will be receptive to the perennial appeal of demagogues: “What do you have to lose?” If the media and intellectuals instead put events into statistical and historical context, they could help answer that question. Radical regimes from Nazi Germany and Maoist China to contemporary Venezuela and Turkey show that people have a tremendous amount to lose when charismatic authoritarians responding to a “crisis” trample over democratic norms and institutions and command their countries by the force of their personalities.
Enlightenment Now
Steven Pinker
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