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The bottom line is that environment, ethos, and competitive rivalry really matter, and to the extent you can create the proper conditions in your local ecosystem, you can have a major impact on talent mobilization.

Talent

Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross

The Manager laughed. “Of course not. But it’s a way to make a complicated job more manageable. It often takes only a minute to refocus on goals and give people important feedback on how they’re doing.

The New One Minute Manager

Ken Blanchard, Spencer, M.D. Johnson

As with Montaigne himself, much of what the libertins and aphorists said revolved around the question of how to live well. Libertins prized qualities such as bel esprit, which might be translated as “good spirits,” but was better defined by one writer of the time as being “gay, lively, full of fire like that displayed in the Essays of Montaigne.” They also aspired to honnêteté, “honesty,” which meant a life of good morals, but also of “good conversation” and “good company,” according to the French Académie’s dictionary of 1694.

How to Live

Sarah Bakewell

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