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2023 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

This is the thread of the books I am reading this year. One hundred and fourteen books. I think I stubbornly finished every book I started in 2023 although some of them maybe I shouldn’t have. I did lower my “books by men” percentage an amount that felt good. I was busier, happier.

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2023 in Libraries

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Kimball (79) – Most weeks I worked here one day and I stopped by a lot of other times, for sub shifts or just to get a book. Hartness/Randolph (1) – I got some books out. Previous years: 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003.

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2022 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

I read a lot of books this year but in many ways it wasn’t a great year for me (it’s improving) so I have mixed feelings about the sheer length of this list and am hoping to read LESS this year. I started to read 144 books and finished 142 but kept up with a few I maybe shouldn’t have. average read per month: 12.

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2021 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

I started and finished 115 books. One more book got added to my best in show category: The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson, though I felt like I read a lot of good books this year. Here are stats for the books that I finished. ebook to book ratio: 63:52. Here are stats for the books that I finished.

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Former White House officials highlight the value of early planning for presidential transitions

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Hadley edited a new book entitled, “ Hand-Off: The Foreign Policy George W. Hadley edited a new book entitled, “ Hand-Off: The Foreign Policy George W. The book includes 30 declassified transition memos about Bush administration policies from 2008 and 2009 and made public for the first time.

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Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There are tons of "leadership books" and seminars and articles about leadership lessons from sports team coaches. Sometimes I tell the story of the first project I did at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a report on the presence of a potential carcinogen in alcoholic beverages. But to dig deeper for the right lesson.

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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

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This concept while widely dismissed by today’s scholars of public administration (Campbell and Peters, 1998; Levy, 2009) as if a true unadulterated distinction could honestly, actually, occur is commonly a constant and growing public debate particularly in developing countries. Overeem, Patrick (2012). Governance, 1 (1), 79-99.