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Colleagues and friends

  • Alignment Strategies Group -

    Jennifer Goldman has an amazing gift for helping individuals and groups resolve conflicts, even those that seem intractable
  • Beyond the Boardroom -

    Ferne Traeger is every bit as smart and insightful as you’d expect an executive coach and psychoanalyst with an MBA degree to be
  • Jim Kenefick -

    the zen master of helping individuals and organizations effect powerful, lasting changes at critical crossroads

Favorite books

A Whole New Mind

A thought-provoking discussion of the skills and perspectives that writer / futurist Dan Pink believes will be crucial for success in the dawning “Conceptual Age.” It’s also chock-full of activities and recommendations for developing these largely right-brain aptitudes.

www.danpink.com
Made to Stick

A smart, engaging book by Dan Heath and Chip Heath that identifies the six common qualities they believe most great ideas share and offers practical advice on how to make your own ideas stickier.

www.madetostick.com
Small Giants: Companies that Choose to be Great Instead of Big

An inspirational book about business leaders with mojo to go and the extraordinary things they empower their people to accomplish.

www.smallgiantsbook.com
The Snowball

If you’re going to read one book about Warren Buffet (and how could you not?), this is the one to choose. Alice Schroeder’s intimate and compelling look at the Oracle of Omaha leaves no stone unturned. Buffet’s single-minded pursuit of shareholder value, his storied frugality, his unorthodox personal relationships, and his involvement in some of the most extraordinary financial and political events in recent history – it’s all in here, including the back-stories.

www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell/snowball
Stumbling on Happiness

Do you think you have a good handle on what will make you happy in the future? You’re probably wrong. Even if the data in the middle of the book gets to be too much, at least consider reading the beginning and end of this fascinating book by Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert to find out why.

Stumbling on Happiness website

Cool ideas

The School of Life

If you’re looking to learn more about life’s big topics (love, politics, work, family, play) or just find an inviting space to contemplate them, you’ll be fascinated by the very idea of this London shop / school / social enterprise experiment. It offers drop-in classes, lectures, communal meals and private sessions with an eclectic roster of experts including philosophers, cultural thought-leaders, bibliotherapists, naturalists and idle parenting advocates. Wish they’d open an outpost in New York.

www.theschooloflife.com