Most people instinctively avoid conflict, but as Margaret Heffernan shows us in this Ted Talk, a good disagreement is central to progress. She shows us how the best partners aren’t echo chambers and how great research teams, relationships and businesses allow people to deeply disagree.
Category Archives: Personal development
Pre-order with Booko: His Truth Is Marching On
Today’s POWB, His Truth Is Marching On, is an intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America by Jon Meacham.
Pre-order with Booko: The Jacaranda House
Today’s Pre-order with Booko is The Jacaranda House by Deborah Challinor. It’s an Australian novel with a spellbinding story about a woman living in Sydney’s notorious King’s Cross in 1964.
Happy Friday!
Great news people…it’s almost the weekend! Time to pop the work papers away, close the zoom screen and head outside for a brisk walk, then settle in for a few days with a good book.
Pre-order with Booko: The Space Between.
Today’s POWB is The Space Between. Our 20s can be wildly confusing, often lonely, sometimes embarrassing and frequently daunting, there’s also a whole lot of magic to be found in the chaos.
How to gain control of your free time
Ohh this Ted Talk is a goodie. Time management expert Laura Vanderkam studies how busy people spend their lives, and she’s discovered that many of us drastically overestimate our commitments each week, while underestimating the time we have to ourselves. She offers a few practical strategies to help find more time for what matters to us, so we can “build the lives we want in the time we’ve got.” Get clicking…
Pre-order with Booko: How I Built This
Today’s Pre Order with Booko is How I Built This by Guy Raz. It’s a manual for success with priceless insights and inspiration from the world’s top entrepreneurs on how to start, launch, and build a successful business.
Pre Order With Booko: Across The Water
Today’s Pre Order with Booko is Across the Water which explores the darker side of motherhood, the pressure to conform, and how women’s choices shape their fate.
Pre Order With Booko: Roughy
Today’s Pre Order with Booko is for all of the footy fans. It’s a story of sportsmanship, resilience and a horrible battle with cancer. It’s Roughy.
Books of the World: Go, Went, Gone.
Today’s BOTW is a passionate contribution to the debate on race, privilege and nationality. Go, Went, Gone showcases one of the great contemporary European writers at the height of her powers.
