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IA : comment ne pas perdre le nord ?

by Marcel Salathé

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How to Focus (Mindfulness Essentials, #9)

by Thich Nhat Hanh

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Wir Flüchtlinge

by Hannah Arendt

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Ru: A Novel by Kim Thúy

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The purpose of my birth was to replace lives that had been lost.

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“. All too often, problems aren’t in the “nodes” (individuals), but in the interactions (relationships). With the exponential rise in contingencies and interactions, we see signs of a deep malaise in many organizations that can be characterized most clearly as the persistent failure of both downward and upward communication, reflecting indifference and mistrust up and down the hierarchy. Quality and safety problems don’t result from technological failures but from socio-technical failures of communication (Gerstein, 2008).”
― Edgar H Schein, Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust

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“Pour vaincre ma rancœur, je pense à la destinée humaine. Chaque vie recèle une parcelle d’héroïsme, un héroïsme obscur fait d’abdications, de renoncements et d’acquiescements, sous le fouet impitoyable de la fatalité. Je pense aux aveugles du monde entier qui se meuvent dans le noir. Je pense aux paralytiques du monde entier qui se traînent. Je pense aux lépreux du monde entier que leur mal ampute.”
― Mariama Bâ, Une si longue lettre (Roman)

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“Leadership” is wanting to do something new and better, and getting others to go along.”
― Edgar H Schein, Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust

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“L’air marin nous incitait à la bonne humeur. Le plaisir que nous goûtions et qui fêtait tous nos sens, enivrait sainement, aussi bien le riche que le pauvre. Notre communion, avec la nature profonde, insondable et illimitée, désintoxiquait notre âme. Le découragement et la tristesse s’en allaient, soudainement remplacés par des sentiments de plénitude et d’épanouissement.”
― Mariama Bâ, Une si longue lettre (Roman)

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“Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts. He has to have a frame of orientation which permits him to organize a consistent picture of the world as a condition for consistent actions. He has to fight not only against the dangers of dying, starving, and being hurt, but also against another danger which is specifically human: that of becoming insane. In other words, he has to protect himself not only against the danger of losing his life but also against the danger of losing his mind.”
― Erich Fromm, The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology

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