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...vast ether of the digital world, and also gives digital works a leg up on hardcopy books. According to Weinberger, “Books create an ethos in which thoughts succeed by being self-contained. The web creates an ethos in which works succeed also by linking outward from themselves. Both have value. You can do both digitally.”In addition to becoming easily searchable, digitized libraries are becoming much more readily available. Houghton Library, Harvard’s holder of rare books and manuscripts, is in the process of digitizing selected pieces from its catalog. Medieval manuscripts...
...knowing the limits to test, not getting trapped in living for comfort in all times, revealing yourself to yourself, not only feeling your life as it’s happening, but participating in it.” After that, Penn says, it’s possible to turn outward again. “Maybe you can come back to society and contribute rather than being another ditto head in it.” To aid Penn in realizing his vision, Emile Hirsch (“Lords of Dogtown,” “Alpha Dog”) stepped...
...fertile minds of children themselves. In an interview via e-mail, Stephen Hawking, who holds Sir Isaac Newton's former chair in mathematics at Cambridge University, explains: "The aim of the book is to encourage children's sense of wonder at the universe. We want them to look outward. Only then will they be able to make the right decisions to safeguard the future of the human race...
...Ancona and Bresman have laid out a framework for doing it another way. In X-Teams--their name for groups that get it right--the authors dive into the nitty-gritty details of engineering a better team: how to reach outward, build a support structure, be more flexible and navigate a corporate culture that might be less than enthusiastic about border crossing. They use examples from teams at Microsoft, Motorola, Toyota and Southwest Airlines and describe in depth how a team at Merrill Lynch created a distressed-equities desk that spanned debt and equity--something that had never been done...
...authors don't entirely ignore the internal workings of teams. They acknowledge that what happens between team members is half the game but argue that it's the overemphasized, overanalyzed half. In their rendering, inner dynamics are best understood as they relate to the team's efforts to reach outward. That means shared timelines, transparent decision making and frequent meetings to integrate knowledge and efforts. And a bedrock for any successful team is a culture that supports frank discussion, even if it's about bad news or mistakes. How do you cultivate that sort of environment? Well, there might just...