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Mayer Amschel Rothschild was the son of a lower-middle-class coin and silk trader in the Judengasse, the Jewish ghetto of eighteenth-century Frankfurt. The ghetto contained not one tree or one patch of grass, and has been described by historians as “slum-like,” “soulless,” and “foul smelling.” An anonymous traveler of Rothschild’s day wrote that if you were coming to Frankfurt, you need not ask directions to find the Judengasse. All you needed was to follow the stench.
From Silk to Silicon
Jeffrey E. Garten
QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER Are you aware of which areas in your business are marred by mistakes because the lower-level employees don’t have enough technical competence to make good decisions? How could you implement a “we learn” policy among your junior and senior staff? Would you consider writing a creed for your organization modeled after the one we wrote for Santa Fe? Are people eager to go to training?
Turn the Ship Around!
L. David Marquet and Stephen R. Covey
In English, “libertine” brings to mind a disreputable Casanova-like figure, but there was more to them than that (as indeed there was to Casanova). Although some libertins did seek sexual freedom, they also wanted philosophical freedom: the right to think as they liked, politically, religiously, and in every other way. Skepticism was a natural route to this inner and outer liberty.
How to Live
Sarah Bakewell
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