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L&D Director. I read 70+ books/year & share tips for how to become a high-powered leader & learner. Bylines in Fast Company, The Startup, etc. Visit me @ BobbyPowers.com.

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4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions

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Fantastic book. Not only the best book available on this topic, but the best book I can imagine anyone ever writing on the topic.
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“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

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“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Selected Writings

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“I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

tags: inspiration, writing

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“Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

tags: enslave, free, injustice

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“The measure of a man is what he does when he has power.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

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