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Our Common Wealth

"The commons" is a term

that denotes everything we share as opposed to own privately. Some parts of the commons are gifts of nature: the air and oceans, the web of species, wilderness, and watersheds. Others are the product of human creativity and endeavor: sidewalks and public squares, the Internet, our languages, cultures, technologies, and infrastructure.

In graceful but compelling prose, authors Jonathan Rowe and Peter Barnes illuminate the scale and value of the commons, its symbiotic relationship with the rest of the economy, its importance to our personal and planetary well-being, and how it is threatened by privatization and neglect.

"The commons" is a term that denotes everything we share as opposed to own privately. Some parts of the commons are gifts of nature: the air and oceans, the web of species, wilderness, and watersheds. Others are the product of human creativity and endeavor: sidewalks and public squares, the Internet, our languages, cultures, technologies, and infrastructure.

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Fear Your Strengths

Takes on the “play to your strengths” fad to show how your strengths can actually betray you

Features tools for keeping your strengths in balance as well as numerous examples of executives from varied backgrounds and companies

Published in collaboration with the Center for Creative Leadership, a top-ranked, global provider of executive and leadership education

Once you’ve discovered your strengths, you need to discover something else: your strengths can work against you. You can have too much of a good thing.

Thany leaders know this on some intuitive level, and they see it in others. But they don’t see it as clearly in themselves. Mainly, they think of leadership development as working on their weaknesses. No wonder. The tools used to assess managers are not equipped to pick up on overplayed strengths. Nowhere in most assessments is there language or diagnostics that can reveal when someone is overdoing it—when more is not better.

This book takes on the “play to your strengths” fad to show how your strengths can actually betray you.