“Elegant in its simplicity and practicality, Lee has distilled many powerful leadership strategies into the lessons many of us learned as children. They are no less relevant to our working lives. At its core, Creating Magic is a collection of stories that reminds us to demonstrate care and respect for every member of the team and to focus our efforts not our ourselves but on the people we lead.” PeopleChildrenStoriesCarePowerfulEffortFocusMagicTeamLessonsMembersCreatingStrategySimplicityCoreCollectionsRelevantElegantPracticalityWorking Life Author:George Bodenheimer
“Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.” WantKindPowerfulHealingTeachLessonsCreatingInstanceLost LoveKinds Of Love Author:Martha Beck
“I was invited. Oxford University Press is simply as prestigious a press as there is so when they come to your door and invite you to be a part of something like this, you say yes. It truly is an honor to work with them, particularly on a project as large as this one. The story of how they came to me is a good lesson though about the unexpected and creating new opportunities.” StoriesOpportunityDoorsHonorLessonsProjectsCreatingPressesUniversityUnexpectedInvitesInvitedOxfordNew OpportunityPrestigiousOxford University Author:Patricia Leavy
“I guess I learned a couple of good lessons from my dad. One was when you're creating something, what you want when you're working with a team of other artists, is everybody to work with some creative freedom, so that you really get the best out of everybody.” WantArtistCreativeTeamCoupleDadLessonsCreatingMy DadWhat You WantCreating SomethingCreative Freedom Author:Brian Henson
“The system of technological production that we have today has been justified in terms of creating more goods to feed more people and to meet more needs. But it actually destroys more of the resources that we need in order to meet those multiple needs. If we shift to an ecological perception, a diversity perception, we realize that some of the instruments of which we are very proud are actually extremely primitive for dealing with nature. To me that is the great lesson of ecological awareness at the turn of the millennium.” PeopleIfsNeedsHas BeensTodayOrderTurnsTermRealizingAwarenessProudLessonsDiversityPerceptionCreatingResourcesInstrumentsProductionsGoodsPrimitiveMultipleTechnologicalJustifiedEcologicalMillennium Author:Vandana Shiva
“One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.” NationsLevelsQualityFocusLessonsCreatingEducationalChinaEnterpriseVillageFacilityHealth Services Author:Abdul Kalam
“When I am wrong, I will learn the lesson and move on to face other challenges. For me, that's what creating your own life is. Doing your best work while being your best self.” SelfFacesMovingLife IsChallengesLessonsCreatingBest WorkDoing Your BestBest Self Author:Jennifer Lopez