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  • Make Your Own Job

    How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America

    A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA sweeping new history of the changing meaning of work in the United States, from Horatio Alger to Instagram influencers.How Americans think about work changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century. Thrift and persistence came to seem old-fashioned. Successful workers were increasingly expected to show initiative and enthusiasm for change—not just to ... Leer más

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    Make Your Own Job

    How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America

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    How Americans think about work changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century. Successful workers were increasingly expected to show initiative and enthusiasm for change. Our culture of work today is more demanding than ever, even though workers haven't seen commensurate rewards.Make Your Own Job explains how this entrepreneurial work ethic took hold, from its origins in late ... Leer más

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  • Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

    How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

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  • The Innovative University

    Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out

    The Innovative University illustrates how higher education can respond to the forces of disruptive innovation , and offers a nuanced and hopeful analysis of where the traditional university and its traditions have come from and how it needs to change for the future. Through an examination of Harvard and BYU-Idaho as well as other stories of innovation in higher education, Clayton Christensen and ... Leer más

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  • A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Management Theory

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  • The Golden Passport

    Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite

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    From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Firm: "A massively detailed history of Harvard Business School . . . and a searing critique." — Kirkus ReviewsWith The Firm, financial journalist Duff McDonald pulled back the curtain on consulting giant McKinsey & Company. In The Golden Passport, he reveals the inner workings of a singular nexus of power, ambition, and influence: Harvard Business ... Leer más

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  • Men and Women of the Corporation

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    In this landmark work on corporate power, especially as it relates to women, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the distinguished Harvard management thinker and consultant, shows how the careers and self-images of the managers, professionals, and executives, and also those of the secretaries, wives of managers, and women looking for a way up, are determined by the distribution of power and powerlessness within ... Leer más

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  • The Culture of the New Capitalism

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  • The New Education

    How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux

    “One of the most thoughtful voices from within academia” (Washington Post) argues the American university is stuck in the past—and shows how we can revolutionize itWe’re living in a period of great upheaval—yet there hasn't been a corresponding change in our system of higher education. In The New Education, Cathy N. Davidson argues we need a new theory and practice of learning that emphasizes ... Leer más

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  • The Ideas Industry

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    The public intellectual has a long and storied history. Previously, the public intellectual was always expected to opine on a broad array of topics, from foreign policy to economics. Yet in recent years a new kind of thinker has supplanted that archetype: the thought leader. Equipped with one big idea, thought leaders focus their energies on TED talks rather than highbrow periodicals. In contrast ... Leer más

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