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Finding Your Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
From the curator and host of the Arete Coach Podcast, Severin Sorensen. Recently I was speaking with a life coach and I asked them one of my favorite get-to-know-you questions: 'please share with me a book you have read that moved you?' Swift came to their reply, "Icky Guy." I thought... Hmm, that's an odd name for a book title. I became more curious: who or what is Icky Guy? To my delight, I found that Ikigai was not a person but a high state of being or life purpose. Being
Dec 29, 20208 min read


20 Powerful Peter Drucker Quotes on Management
For many, Peter Drucker's works are to business literature, what Isaiah's words are to the bible; rich, deep, insightful, proverbial, and oftentimes difficult to grasp. For instance, in 2016 I reviewed the Audible version of Management by Peter F Drucker, and while a magnum opus, it was like listening to the tax code in sections. So I decided to dig deep, research, sort, and provide for my coaching clients dozens of his golden nuggets of wisdom that he was so frequently quote
Dec 14, 20202 min read
Thinking out loud, rigorously.
The ideas that didn't fit in the books. Longer thoughts for executives with shorter patience for noise.
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