This is what we talked about on The Invisible Mentor Blog this week: HG Wells’ The War of the World, John Maynard Keynes, Economist, and Joann Lim, Making It Happen Specialist and Professional Coach. Adventures in Learning This is a guest post by Carlo Pandian who gives a unique look at the new world of the businessman. Is the Traditional Businessman Dead? Booked for Mentoring HG Wells’ The War of the World is an invasion story. However, it’s an invasion by beings from another planet. It is about interplanetary warfare and is written in a journalistic style. The names of newspapers are mentioned in the … [Read more...]
Mentor Yourself: John Maynard Keynes, British Economist Who Revolutionized Economic Theory and Policy
April 25, 2012 by
John Maynard Keynes was a brilliant and outspoken economist. “[He] was educated at the finest British schools, Eton and then King's College, Cambridge, becoming in his youth a part of the Bloomsbury Group, which consisted of a dozen privileged aesthetes, including Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, and Clive Bell.” When he was in his mid-thirties, Keynes married a ballerina, Lydia Lopokova, and they remained together until his death from a heart attack on Easter Sunday, April 21, 1946. Name: John Maynard Keynes Birth Date: June 1883 – April 1946 Job Functions: Economist Fields: Economic Theory Known For: The General … [Read more...]
Review of Books That Changed The World: The 50 Most Influential Books in History by Andrew Taylor
August 3, 2010 by
Andrew Taylor - Your Invisible Mentor I am interested in ancient wisdom and constantly looking for books written centuries ago to explore my idea that we can use yesterday’s concepts to solve today’s problems. I wanted a source where an author distilled the works of others. And that’s why I bought and read Books That Changed The World: The 50 Most Influential Books in Human History by Andrew Taylor. I appreciate that most of the books he focused on were published over five decades ago – only three books were written less that five decades ago: Silent Spring (1962), Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Chairman Mao's Little Red … [Read more...]
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