Tag: Freethinking

Nine Lies About Work A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World


Free Download Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World by Marcus Buckingham, Ashley Goodall, Gildan Media
English | April 02, 2019 | ISBN: B07Q3J5MK3 | 8 hours and 53 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 488 Mb
Your organization’s culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. People’s competencies should be measured and their weaknesses shored up. People crave feedback.
These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they’re lies. As Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall show in this provocative, inspiring book, there are some big lies – distortions, faulty assumptions, wrong thinking – running through our organizational lives.
But there are those who can get past the lies and discover what’s real. These are freethinking leaders who recognize the power and beauty of our individual uniqueness, who know that emergent patterns are more valuable than received wisdom, and that evidence is more powerful than dogma.

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Merle’s Door Lessons from a Freethinking Dog


Free Download Ted Kerasote, "Merle’s Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog"
English | 2007 | pages: 398 | ISBN: 0151012709, 0156034506 | EPUB | 6,3 mb
While on a camping trip, Ted Kerasote met a dog―a Labrador mix―who was living on his own in the wild. They became attached to each other, and Kerasote decided to name the dog Merle and bring him home. There, he realized that Merle’s native intelligence would be diminished by living exclusively in the human world. He put a dog door in his house so Merle could live both outside and in.

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