Scott Berkun
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Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management
26 editions
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2001
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Confessions of a Public Speaker
38 editions
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2009
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The Myths of Innovation
5 editions
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2007
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The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work
21 editions
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2013
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The Art of Project Management (Theory in Practice
6 editions
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2005
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Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds
4 editions
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2011
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How Design Makes the World
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The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity
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2017
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The Ghost of My Father
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2014
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عام بدون بنطال
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2013
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“People who truly have control over time always have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. A sense of priorities drives their use of time and it can shift away from the ordinary work that’s easy to justify, in favor of the more ethereal, deeper things that are harder to justify. They protect their time from trivia and idiocy; these people are time rich. They provide themselves with a surplus of time. They might seem to idle, or relax more often than the rest, but that just might be a sign of their mastery, not their incompetence.”
― Mindfire
― Mindfire
“The Greeks were so committed to ideas as supernatural forces that they created an entire group of goddesses (not one but nine) to represent creative power; the opening lines of both The Iliad and The Odyssey begin with calls to them. These nine goddesses, or muses, were the recipients of prayers from writers, engineers, and musicians. Even the great minds of the time, like Socrates and Plato, built shrines and visited temples dedicated to their particular muse (or muses, for those who hedged their bets). Right now, under our very secular noses, we honor these beliefs in our language, as the etymology of words like museum ("place of the muses") and music ("art of the muses") come from the Greek heritage of ideas as superhuman forces.”
― The Myths of Innovation
― The Myths of Innovation
“The bottleneck is never code or creativity; it's lack of clarity.”
― The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work
― The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work
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“There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”
― Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
― Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
“I particularly value conversations which are meetings on the borderline of what I understand and what I don't, with people who are different from myself.”
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