Hamlet
William Shakespeare
”Shakespeare has all of the human traits; if you look somewhere you will find it, either in King Lear or Hamlet or Macbeth; it’s there.”
Ricardo Semler is a Brazilian businessman known for transforming Semco Partners into a radical experiment in democratic management and corporate self-governance. Taking over his father's company at a young age, he completely redesigned its structure, eliminating rigid hierarchies and giving employees autonomy to set salaries, schedules, and goals — practices he chronicled in the bestsellers Turning the Tables and Maverick.
Semler is a global reference in alternative models of work organization and education, having also co-founded the Lumiar school, based on principles of self-directed learning. His reading choices tend to reflect this unconventional thinking: they question established assumptions about business, education, and society.
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Piccolo Principe
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 1943
”It’s a little bit like The Little Prince, the French book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry which says that you are responsible for everything that you captivate.”
Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
Carl Jung · 1959
”I always go back to two books, one by Karl Jung and his whole issue of collective unconscious”
Also recommended by: Jordan Peterson
The Portable Jung
Carl Jung · 1960
”These kinds of books – and Kafka I think is extraordinary – give you an enormous insight into the people who are doing things and why they’re doing things, rather than the whole set of how-tos.”
Parables and paradoxes.
Franz Kafka · 1961
”There’s one which is wonderful is a collection of parables, and there’s a set of parables.”