LITERATURE
Ganz im Gegenteil - für Querdenker und solche, die es werden wollen
Matthias Varga von Kibed, Insa Sparrer, ISBN 3896704230
The book with which everything started: Many years ago I accidentally received a small, thin preprint. In the meantime I had the pleasure to meet the authors in person: whitty, literate, hearty, always trying to connect psychological phenomena with mathematical formulae. It clicked - just by reading the book.
Bunte Hunde - mit abseitigen Ideen zum Erfolg
Ryan Mathews, Watts Wacker, ISBN 3203801469
Futurology is presented lively and wittily in this book - and we are given answers to the following question: How do marginal, devious ideas find their ways from no man's land to mainstream? An enriching book for people with untamed ideas!
Das Schwein mit dem Holzbein - was sie schon immer über Wirtschaft wissen wollten und nie zu fragen wagten
P.J.Rourke, ISBN 383230861X
A rock music critic of Rolling Stone Magazine wrote about economy, because he wanted an answer to the following question: Why are some people rich and others are not? Disrespectful humour, superbly written - and by the way you learn a lot about the functioning of economy.
Erfolgreich führen und leiten - das will ich können....
Jürgen Hargens, ISBN 3861452286
The book cover shows a comic strip of Hägar. The leader of the Vikings is asked the following question: " How come that you became the boss?" Hägar's answer: "Persistence, ingenuity and simply bad luck." A humourous book about how to put systemic ideas into practical opportunities.
....und trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen - ein Psychologe er- und überlebt das Konzentrationslager
Viktor E. Frankl, ISBN 3423301422
I reread this book time and again, because it always awakes me and shows that the human spirit is able to say yes to life even under inhumane circumstances: An example for the good inside the bad!
Freiheit will ich noch erleben - Krakauer Tagebuch
Halina Nelken, ISBN 3883507326
As chairperson Steven Spielberg knew why he had added that book to Survivors of the Shoa. Visual History Foundation. Even as a very young girl Mrs. Nelken had learned to set herself a target, to move towards it without being put off by others.
Die Kunst der Demotivation - Führungsfehlern auf die Schliche kommen
Wolfgang Kollenz, ISBN: 3409190198
Wolfgang Kollenz seems to be an innocent civil servant, but his book is provocative, amusing and entertaining - and additionally I learned a lot about demotivation mistakes but also about ways of motivation.
Video tip: Gardi Hutter: "Die tapfere Hanna", "Auftritt im schweizer Parlament"
Top clownery performed by a top instructor (Thanks!) www.gardihutter.com
Hotel tip:
A hotel in the heart of Berlin in which lateral thinking is a principle www.propeller-island.com