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July 26, 2013

Featured Author: Chris Matthews with Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

Click here to register! Chris Matthews is anchor of MSNBC’s Hardball as well as the NBC-syndicated The Chris Matthews Show. He is an author of American; Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think; and Kennedy and Nixon. About Tip and the Gipper:  When Politics Worked From the author of the New York Times bestseller Jack Kennedy—and Tip O’Neill’s former chief-of-staff—comes the firsthand, one-of-a-kind story of the friendship between President Reagan and the Speaker of the House. They were […]
July 23, 2013

Roger Schwarz’s HBR blog, Increase Your Team’s Curiosity

Does your team have a difficult time making decisions that everyone supports? If so, you may be suffering from a lack of curiosity. Try this: Next time you’re in a team meeting, count the number of times you make a statement and the number of times you ask a question. If you’re like most team leaders, you’ll find that you make many more statements than ask questions and some of the questions you ask aren’t really questions. Research shows that […]
July 10, 2013

Featured Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin with The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

Doris Kearns Goodwin is the author of the runaway bestseller Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. She won the Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II and is also the author of the bestsellers Wait Till Next Year, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband, Richard N. Goodwin. About The Bully Pulpit: Theodore […]
July 10, 2013

Featured Author: Judith Martin with Miss Manners Minds Your Business

Judith Martin, born a perfect lady in an imperfect society, is the author of the “Miss Manners” columns and best-selling books, two novels, and a travel book on Venice. She and her husband live in Washington, DC. About Miss Manners Minds Your Business A witty guide to managing a real life wisely in a work-centered world. What do your colleagues, overlords, underlings, clients, and customers have in common? Not knowing how much they annoy you. Not to mention how much […]
July 3, 2013

Featured Author: Sheila Bair with Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself

Click here to register! Sheila Bair is the former Chairman of the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation). She has been covered—and lauded—everywhere from The New Yorker to The Washington Post to The Wall Street Journal, and in 2008 and 2009 Forbes named her the second most powerful woman in the world. Prior to assuming her post at the FDIC, Bair served as assistant secretary for financial institutions at the US Department of the Treasury and as senior vice president for […]
July 2, 2013

Loretta’s Favorite Past Time

On vacation, jigsaw puzzles are a favorite past time, but even then books are never far away!  I was surprised to note that I have not read six of these books.  I will now add to my summer reading list and pick up a couple at  A Bunch of Grapes bookstore in Vineyard Haven. Happy 4th to all! – Loretta