Inevitably, she declined / The deep river : a story of ancient tribal migration / Lucie Brock-Broido. Men, women, and chiefs / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Pericles reminds the Athenians who they are / Thucydides -- Dux femina facti : Dido builds Carthage / Virgil -- Poetry reading / Rosanna Warren -- On authority / Friedrich Engels -- The monkey-rope / Herman Melville -- Understanding the city / Jane Jacobs -- Shooting an elephant / George Orwell -- Remaining awake through a great revolution / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Emulating heroes. Nathan and Mithridanes / Giovanni Boccaccio -- Tilting at windmills / Miguel de Cervantes -- The hero of Solferino / Joseph Roth -- Once upon a time / Carolyn G. Heilbrun -- The dead man / Jorge Luis Borges -- Isadora (1878-1927) / Janet Flanner -- Coda: Artists of deep attention. On noise / Seneca -- Ambrose reading / Augustine -- Ulysses S. Grant at work / Horace Porter -- A cup of tea / Zen Flesh, Zen Bones -- The snow man / Wallace Stevens -- The method of Inspector Maigret / Georges Simenon -- Risking revision. Whoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times / Niccolò Machiavelli -- An old and established name / Lao She -- Electrification / Mikhail Zoschenko -- Personal best / Atul Gawande -- Birth of a dynasty / Alexander Wolff -- Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos / Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin -- Daedalus and Icarus, Daedalus and Perdix / Ovid -- The oak and the reed / Jean de la Fontaine -- Knowing the way. from Tao te ching / Lao Tzu -- from Meditations / Marcus Aurelius -- The ruler and the general / Sun Tzu -- About the good sense and cleverness of Queen Dido / Christine de Pizan -- Of studies / Francis Bacon -- Gone fishing / Mark Singer -- A woman's place is running the kitchen / Marnie Hanel -- On military genius / Carl von Clausewitz -- Time and patience / Leo Tolstoy -- Omar Bradly / A.J. Liebling -- The taste of Banzo's sword / Zen Flesh, Zen Bones -- The oven bird / Robert Frost -- Album: Artists of delay. When I consider how my light is spent / John Milton -- Fabius Maximus, two sayings of Augustus Caesar / Plutarch -- Replies to parliamentary petitions / Elizabeth I -- The Cretonnes of Penelope / Joseph Harrison -- Penelope's despair / Yannis Ritsos -- Cultivating trust. The monkey's heroic self-sacrifice / Jātaka Tales -- The tale of King Yunan and the Sage Duban / The Arabian Nights -- from Meditations / Marcus Aurelius -- How to build a ship / Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca -- Interview with Jean Renoir / George Stevens Jr. -- Mission command / Martin E. Dempsey -- Open secrets / Malcolm Gladwell -- Album: Con artists. The crane and the crow / Aesop's Fables -- In the hands of destiny / Zen Flesh, Zen Bones -- Patching out the lion's skin / Plutarch -- The way princes should keep their word / Niccolò Machiavelli -- The justice of general Ts'ao / Romance of the Three Kingdoms -- Cecil B. DeMille on the set / Mervyn LeRoy -- Hercules, Deianira, Nessus / C.K. Williams -- Negotiating world and self. Of cannibals / Michel de Montaigne -- Speaking the truth / Baldassare Castiglione -- Sekandar visits the emperor of China / Abolqasem Ferdowsi -- Speech at St. Nicholas Hotel, speech at Cooper Union / Red Cloud -- Speaking in tongues / Zadie Smith -- Of negociating / Francis Bacon -- Latin rebuke to the Polish ambassador / Elizabeth I -- Suppose you and I have an argument / Chuang Tzu -- Taking responsibility. Hector returns to Troy / Homer -- from Meditations / Marcus Aurelius -- The governor of P'ing Lu, tyrant Chieh / Mencius -- Parable of the sower, parable of the talents / The Gospel according to St. Matthew -- A little touch of Harry in the night, the deliberation of Brutus / William Shakespeare -- A valor-ruined man / Herman Melville -- If they hang you / Dashiell Hammett -- Silent spring / Rachel Carson -- Album: Artists of persuasion. Professions for women / Virginia Woolf -- First fireside chat on banking, the four freedoms / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- The defence of freedom and peace / Winston Churchill -- Henry V at Agincourt / William Shakespeare -- We will stand and fight here / Bernard Montgomery -- Speech to the Third Army / George Patton -- Learning from failure. The arctic hedonist / Anne Fadiman -- The story of Croesus / Herodotus -- Alexander / Plutarch -- The trek to Kabul / Babur -- A valuable lesson / Ulysses S. Grant -- Orpheus and Eurydice / Czeslaw Milosz -- Resisting the system. The story of Moses / The Book of Exodus -- The peasants' revolt / Barbara W. Tuchman -- The tyranny of the system / Mary Wollstonecraft -- Taking the Ell / Frederick Douglass -- Statement to the court / Eugene V. Debs -- Nonviolence is the first article of my faith / Mohandas Gandhi -- I am prepared to die / Nelson Mandela -- Songs of resistance. Been in the storm so long -- Sinking of the Titanic -- De Ballit of de boll weevil -- John Henry -- The Cryderville jail -- Do re mi / Woody Guthrie -- St. Louis blues / W.C. Handy -- Blues on yellow / Marilyn Chin -- Poetry of exile. Poem no. 286 (On Stalin) / Osip Mandelstam -- A prayer for the end of the century / Heberto Padilla -- Album: Abraham Lincoln, artist of judgment. Letter to David Hunter ; Letter to George B. McClellan ; Letter to Joseph Hooker ; Letter to John M. Schofield ; Letters to Ulysses S. Grant ; Correspondence with the War Department ; Second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- Disciplining desire. Macbeth / William Shakespeare -- Album: Art of the story. We tell ourselves stories / Joan Didion -- Of the inconsistency of our actions / Michel de Montaigne -- American everyman : portrait of Warren Buffett / Walter Kirn -- Coda: Letting go. In reply to Vice-Magistrate Chang / Wang Wei -- Darwin in 1881 / Gjertrud Schnackenberg -- Inevitably, she declined / Lucie Brock-Broido.
Summary:
Presents more than one hundred stories and essays that highlight the relationship between literature and leadership and creativity and strategic thinking, featuring works from a variety of writers.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.