Author: Lirim Neziroski
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2020 Books I Read – Educational
One of my goals for 2020 was to read more. I read about two hours each night, and I read 45 books altogether. I read mostly popular non-fiction books about personal productivity, business management, education, and a few novels I had on my bookshelf for a long time. In this blog post, I summarize the…
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Two Years of Blogging
Some reflections after two years. In seventh or eighth grade, I hand-wrote “Dear Reader” articles during study hall. These page-long articles were modeled on newspaper op-eds like the “Dear Abbey” column. I never published these anywhere, and I don’t think I ever showed them to anyone, but I was interested in writing, and I believed…
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Decision-Making Strategies
Decision-making is one of the most important responsibilities of a leader. According to Peter Drucker’s The Effective Executive, it is the quality of decisions that sets one leader apart from another. If his/her decisions bring benefits for employees, customers, and shareholders, the leader is considered effective and promising, and he/she is very valuable to the…
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The Byronic Hero in David Ball’s Empires of Sand
The “Byronic hero” is a character type that appeared in Lord Byron’s poetry between 1812 and 1819, and it influenced literary characters throughout the 19th century. In this post, I will describe the Byronic hero and its legacy, and I will argue that it influenced David Ball’s depiction of the Tuareg in his novel Empires…
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