Leadership&Management
Life has three fundamental characteristics that we must not forget: it is imperfect, unfinished, and impermanent. From a young age, we are taught a misconception that completion, permanence, and perfection exist. But this is not true. I must move from one stage to another, enjoy the process, and be fully myself along the way. If you do this, you have already achieved a great deal
Huxley publishes the final part of Joe Studwell’s notes on the Republic of Botswana — one of the developed African countries
Huxley continues to publish a series of notes on Africa as a global development frontier. The next object of Joe Studwell was the Republic of Botswana – one of the developed African countries
Nuclear weapons pose a greater problem than any issue they are purportedly meant to solve. The current crisis and war in Ukraine are extremely dangerous for everyone. And yet, the fate of all future generations is being decided by just a handful of people
Marie Skłodowska-Curie proved to the world that women can be great scientists. She has been awarded the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry and is the first female Nobel laureate in history. But, despite her merits, she very often preferred to stay in the shadow of her husband, and she gave discoveries to humanity – free of charge
The life path of the world-famous French singer and film actress Edith Piaf was unusually eventful, complex and short. She lived only 47 years, was an example of a strong spirit, but at the same time a vulnerable person. With an incredible talent, a booming and dramatic voice, the girl who sang on the street forever inscribed her name in the tablets of history
It is important to understand that dialogue is impossible without the desire of each side to understand the other. It is necessary not to act on the principle of “the one who is louder is right”, but to try to hear all sides, all participants
Beulah Louise Henry was predicted to become a politician, but the girl found another calling for herself – she began to improve the world through her inventions. She came up with 110 things and ways to improve life, patenting 49 of them. Beulah Louise acquired the nickname Lady Edison and became the first inventor to receive fabulous fees for her ideas
He was the first in the world to be able to climb to the top of Everest during the monsoon season, traveled to Antarctica and Greenland, visited the North and South Poles, crossed the Gobi and Takla Makan deserts. And all this – without any connection with relatives or the press. The legendary mountaineer Reinhold Messner did it not for fame, but for one more small tick in the list of his personal victories
The distribution of roles in the global economy leaves Ukraine little chance for a breakthrough. But the rejection of competition at the level of ideas and goods, acceptance of the role of an exporter of grain and ore doom Ukraine to stagnation and regular crises caused by price fluctuations in commodity markets
The first flight of a man to the moon, the first shoe print on the Earth satellite, the return alive from orbit – all this could not have happened without the painstaking work of a fragile woman wearing glasses – the lead engineer of the Apollo space program, Margaret Hamilton
The story of Katherine Graham is a path of struggle and overcoming. On June 7, 1971, she made the difficult decision to publish classified US Department of Defense papers known as the Pentagon Papers in the newspaper. Thus, the Washington Post raised its level of authority many times over, becoming a worthy competitor to the New York Times, and Graham began to be unofficially called the First Lady of the pen