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“The first secret of effectiveness is to understand the people you work with and depend on so that you can make use of their strengths, their ways of working, and their values. Working relationships are as much based on the people as they are on the work.”
― Managing Oneself
― Managing Oneself
“Sooner or later, of course, reality reveals itself, he says, you can borrow for a time against reality but reality is always waiting, patiently, silently, to exact a price and level the scales——”
― Prophet Song
― Prophet Song
“Values, in other words, are and should be the ultimate test.”
― Managing Oneself
― Managing Oneself
“To discover truth, it is necessary to work within the metaphors of our own time,”
― God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
― God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
“Privacy was a modern fixation, I said, and distinctly American. For most of human history we accepted that our lives were being watched, listened to, supervened upon by gods and spirits—not all of them benign, either.”
― God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
― God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
Ken’s 2025 Year in Books
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