Leadership and Public Service
 | Robert Greene
Bestselling Author │ Cultural Theorist │ Strategist
Law 3—CONCEAL YOUR INTENTIONS
Law 14—POSE AS A FRIEND, WORK AS A SPY
Law 15—CRUSH YOUR ENEMY TOTALLY
Robert Greene is not a man who preaches random acts of kindness. In fact, the release of his book The 48 Laws of Power prompted New York Magazine to declare, “Machiavelli has a new rival. And Sun Tzu better watch his back.” Spending eleven weeks on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list, The 48 Laws of Power sent shockwaves through the business world, Hollywood, Washington, and even the hip-hop music industry. Not only has Greene been called in to Robert Greenepersonally advise industry leaders such as famed film and TV producer Brian Grazer and American Apparel CEO Dov Charney, but he was also asked to collaborate on a business book with the multi-platinum rapper 50 Cent. Rap producer and filmmaker Quincy “QD3” Jones III has even begun working on a full-length documentary about The 48 Laws of Power and its influence on the music industry.
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 | Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon
Author │ Energy & Security Expert │ Political Scientist
Thomas Homer-Dixon helps his audiences understand how our world is changing. In clear, simple language, he shows how challenges such as global warming, energy scarcity, economic instability, and infoglut affect people, companies, and societies. And he explains what we can all do to adapt and prosper in a world of ever-greater complexity, speed, and surprise.
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 | Tracy Kidder
Bestselling Author │ Journalist │ Essayist
"A lot of the job of a person trying to write stories that are true is to make what’s true believable. It isn’t enough to say, well, it actually happened. You have to make it believable on the page; you have to bring people to life and scenes to life."
—Tracy Kidder
Over his long career, Kidder’s writing has been prolific and outstanding. The Soul of a New Machine—a book celebrated for its insight into the world of high-tech corporate America—earned him a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award in 1982. Other bestselling works include House (1985), Among Schoolchildren (1989), Old Friends (1993) and Home Town (1999).
Selected Books: Mountains Beyond Mountains, The Strength in What Remains, The Soul of a New Machine
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 | Alex Kotlowitz
Bestselling Author │ Journalist │ Race & Poverty Commentator
Alex Kotlowitz is an award-winning journalist whose bestselling book, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Doubleday, 1991), garnered national recognition for its compassionate and unflinching portrait of Pharoah and Lafeyette Rivers and their lives growing up in a public housing project in inner city Chicago.
No other book, no movie, no TV show so powerfully portrays the children and families who are outside the American dream."
—New Leader
Selected Books: There are No Children Here, Never a City So Real
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 | Christopher Phillips
Bestselling Author │ Founder, Constitution & Socrates Cafés │ Social Entrepreneur
“To date, Phillips has orchestrated discussions on … Solomonic topics at nursing homes, maximum-security prisons, churches, homeless shelters, bookstores and coffeehouses across the country, gently prodding students, urban professionals, unreconstructed slackers, street people and others to share their worldviews and scrutinize their most basic assumptions.”
–Los Angeles Times
Christopher Phillips has a passion for inquiry. A foremost specialist in the Socratic Method, he reminds us that we ought to ask questions – “not about any chance question,” as Socrates put it in Plato’s Republic, “but about the way one should live.”
Selected Books: Constitution Café, Six Questions of Socrates, Socrates Café.
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 | David Oliver Relin
Bestselling Author │ Journalist │ Human Rights Advocate
"We Americans need to learn from our mistakes, from the flailing, ineffective way we, as a nation, conducted the 'war-on-terror' after the attacks of 9/11, and from the way we’ve failed to make our case to the moderate, peace-loving majority of people at the heart of the Muslim World. If we want to heal the wounded relationship between Islam and the West, we have to learn how to wage peace as aggressively as we wage war."
—David Oliver Relin
Selected Books: Three Cups of Tea, See How They Shine (Random House, forthcoming 2011)
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