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An inspiration engine for ideas
Library leaders in the 21st century must be able to present compelling visions of the future in nonconfrontational terms—as advocates.
Margaret Saponaro • Collection Management Basics (Library and Information Science Text Series)
four attributes of modern public libraries.
Margaret Saponaro • Collection Management Basics (Library and Information Science Text Series)
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
Naomi Klein • Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual
Holly Ensign-Barstow • From shareholder primacy to stakeholder capitalism
More to the point, what works of inspired genius might we be losing right now, at a moment when we’re in dire need of as much inspired genius as we can summon? As Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, puts it, ‘we are forever elsewhere.’
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
The challenge we all face is how to maintain the benefits of breadth, diverse experience, interdisciplinary thinking, and delayed concentration in a world that increasingly incentivizes, even demands, hyperspecialization.
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
the bigger the picture, the more unique the potential human contribution. Our greatest strength is the exact opposite of narrow specialization.
David Epstein • Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
The measure of education should not be knowledge regurgitated, expertise applied, or money earned, but the testimony of lives well and fully lived.