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Hold Space for Other Perspectives - An Excerpt from The Triangle of Truth
By Porchlight
The following is an excerpt from Lisa Earle McLeod's The Triangle of Truth: The Surprisingly Simple Secret to Resolving Conflicts Large and Small, which was released earlier this month. McLeod describes the Triangle of Truth thus: Instead of trying to compromise in the middle, or the more common scenario, fight about who's right and who's wrong, the Triangle of Truth provides a model for redirecting your energy. It points you towrd a solution at the top of the triangle that honors the truth on both sides.
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Roger Lowenstein's take on the current financial crisis
By Porchlight
From the introduction of his April 06, 2010 book called The End of Wall Street, Roger Lowenstein states: "On the evidence, Lehman was more nearly the climax, or one of a series of climaxes, in a long and painful cataclysm. By the time it failed, the critical moment was long past. Banks had suffered horrendous losses that drained their capital, and as the country was to discover, capitalism without capital is like a furnace without fuel.
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The Marketplace of Ideas
By Porchlight
The best part of working at 800-CEO-READ, other than the lovely and intelligent people surrounding me, is the amount of lovely and intelligent books surrounding me. We are all ridiculously fortunate here to be able to pick up random books at random moments throughout the day and see if they speak to us. Most don't, but the ones that do.
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A New Newsletter
By Sally Haldorson
You may notice something new on the front page of our website (and if you don't, make sure to scroll down below The Daily Blog). There in the middle of the page you can opt in to receive our new (! ) email newsletter, The Keen Thinker.
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I'll See That and Raise You
By Porchlight
We received the following post from Frances Cole Jones, author of How to Wow and The Wow Factor. She also wrote a ChangeThis manifesto, The Wow Factor is You, that went live just one week ago. Without further ado, ladies and gentleman, Frances Cole Jones.
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What's Legal?
By Porchlight
A lot, apparently. In Lewis Maltby's new book Can They Do That? : Retaking Our Fundamental Rights in the Workplace, we hear some really crazy stories of firing and harassment of employees by companies that were completely legal.
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The Story of an Old Record
By Porchlight
I got the record from a flea market in Richmond, Illinois when I was in high school. It sat in my stacks for years, rarely really listened to. I had, after all, heard the speech many times before, in school and on television.
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In honor of Martin Luther King...The Gettysburg Address
By Porchlight
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania November 19, 1863 On June 1, 1865, Senator Charles Sumner commented on what is now considered the most famous speech by President Abraham Lincoln. In his eulogy on the slain president, he called it a "monumental act. " He said Lincoln was mistaken that "the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here.
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Artists
By Porchlight
"Artists--by definition innocent--don't steal.
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Matthew May's Five Books That Defined the Decade
By Porchlight
In Pursuit of Elegance author Matthew May reads around 200 books a year. That means he's read approximately 2000 books since the year 2000. Of those, he has picked five that he feels defined the last decade, writing "these 'big idea' books stand out because not only did they help us better understand the world, they gave us a new lens through which to view it.
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