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If biographies or non-fiction management guides litter your day-to-day life, this is what you take to the beach.
A review by Todd Lazarski
The Privileges by Jonathan Dee, Random House, 272 pages, $25. 00, Hardcover, January 2010, ISBN 9781400068678
30-plus rapid-fire pages, opening with the line, "A WEDDING!
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Tensions are going to exist in any organization of human beings, from the marriage of two individuals all the way up to the social contract of a nation. The most successful leaders use that inherent tension and struggle to creatively further the organization—whether it's a spouse gently challenging the other to become the person they aspire to be, a corporate leader fomenting healthy disagreement on strategy to find a better approach, or a civil rights leader confronting an unjust, societal status quo to improve living conditions.
It is when we try to suppress those struggles and ignore the tension that we ultimately fail to move forward.
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In the early part of the last century, Henry Ford was one of the most influential and admired men in the world. He was an industrialist-philosopher, building a new, mechanized Eden in America. He hired men of every color, nation and religion and payed them an unheard-of five dollars a day to stand in one place at work and live a clean life at home (Ford had a Sociological Department that sent hundreds of agents into Dearborn and Detroit to investigate employee's lives and write up personnel reports).
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Veteran's Day seems to come and go so fast. It seems like such a huge event that should last for weeks and months so we can take time to remember and hold reverence to everyone that has fought for this country.
One way of keeping this holiday alive is through the pages of history books.
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I found this review on www. blogcritics. org - it seems like a very intriguing read.
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