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Look out for book announcements and the ensuing discussions that follow, but beware of potential spoilers&#x21;&#x3c;&#x2f;p&#x3e;]]></description><copyright>Copyright 2026</copyright><pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2016 04:00:00 EST</pubDate><generator>https&#x3a;&#x2f;&#x2f;cr4.globalspec.com</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Book Club Discussion&#x3a; Dark Matter by Blake Crouch]]></title><link><![CDATA[https&#x3a;&#x2f;&#x2f;cr4.globalspec.com&#x2f;blogentry&#x2f;27695&#x2f;Book-Club-Discussion-Dark-Matter-by-Blake-Crouch&#x3f;from_rss&#x3d;1]]></link><description><![CDATA[CR4 Book Club Discussion&#x3a;&#xa;&#xa;- Dark Matter -&#xa;by Blake Crouch &#x28;2016&#x29;&#xa;&#xa;A group of us at IEEE GlobaSpec read Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. We discussed the book and came up with some interesting topics and points about the book. We are now wondering what your thoughts are.&#xa;&#xa;Some things we wondered&#x3a;&#xa;&#xa;&#x26;mi]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2016 04&#x3a;00&#x3a;00 EST</pubDate><guid><![CDATA[https&#x3a;&#x2f;&#x2f;cr4.globalspec.com&#x2f;blogentry&#x2f;27695&#x2f;Book-Club-Discussion-Dark-Matter-by-Blake-Crouch]]></guid><dc:creator>Bayes</dc:creator><dc:subject>The CR4 Book Club</dc:subject></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book Review - The Bishop&#x2019;s Boys&#x3a; A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright]]></title><link><![CDATA[https&#x3a;&#x2f;&#x2f;cr4.globalspec.com&#x2f;blogentry&#x2f;14839&#x2f;Book-Review-The-Bishop-s-Boys-A-Life-of-Wilbur-and-Orville-Wright&#x3f;from_rss&#x3d;1]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tom&#xd; Crouch&#x27;s book about the Wright Brothers is one that I&#x27;d seen reviewed, probably&#xd; ever since it came out in 1989. The Bishop&#x27;s Boys&#x3a; A Life of Wilbur and&#xd; Orville Wright  is also a book I knew I ought to read &#x22;one of these&#xd; days&#x22;.  Well, this year at Oshkosh,&#xd; I spotted a copy at an aviation boo]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 13&#x3a;30&#x3a;00 EST</pubDate><guid><![CDATA[https&#x3a;&#x2f;&#x2f;cr4.globalspec.com&#x2f;blogentry&#x2f;14839&#x2f;Book-Review-The-Bishop-s-Boys-A-Life-of-Wilbur-and-Orville-Wright]]></guid><dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator><dc:subject>The CR4 Book Club</dc:subject></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book Review&#x3a; World Made By Hand]]></title><link><![CDATA[https&#x3a;&#x2f;&#x2f;cr4.globalspec.com&#x2f;blogentry&#x2f;12649&#x2f;Book-Review-World-Made-By-Hand&#x3f;from_rss&#x3d;1]]></link><description><![CDATA[&#x22;Children like my Daniel and Genna had sat in those very box&#xd; buildings under buzzing fluorescent lights listening to their science teachers&#xd; prattle about the wonders of space travel and gene splicing and how we were all&#xd; going to live to be a hundred and twenty five years old in &#x27;smart&#x27;&#xd; compute]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 15&#x3a;06&#x3a;36 EST</pubDate><guid><![CDATA[https&#x3a;&#x2f;&#x2f;cr4.globalspec.com&#x2f;blogentry&#x2f;12649&#x2f;Book-Review-World-Made-By-Hand]]></guid><dc:creator>Steve Melito</dc:creator><dc:subject>The CR4 Book Club</dc:subject></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book Review&#x3a; A New Leadership Ethos &#x28;Part 3&#x29;]]></title><link><![CDATA[https&#x3a;&#x2f;&#x2f;cr4.globalspec.com&#x2f;blogentry&#x2f;11514&#x2f;Book-Review-A-New-Leadership-Ethos-Part-3&#x3f;from_rss&#x3d;1]]></link><description><![CDATA[&#x22;Organizations can rarely be built to last but generally&#xd; only grown to achieve,&#x22; writes Dr. Marc van der Erve in A New Leadership Ethos&#x3a; The Ability to Predict. A student of science and sociology, Dr. van der Erve roots his writings in the deep, rich soils of&#xd; chaos theory, thermodynamics, and Da]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05&#x3a;01&#x3a;00 EST</pubDate><guid><![CDATA[https&#x3a;&#x2f;&#x2f;cr4.globalspec.com&#x2f;blogentry&#x2f;11514&#x2f;Book-Review-A-New-Leadership-Ethos-Part-3]]></guid><dc:creator>Steve Melito</dc:creator><dc:subject>The CR4 Book Club</dc:subject></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book Review&#x3a; A New Leadership Ethos &#x28;Part 2&#x29; ]]></title><link><![CDATA[https&#x3a;&#x2f;&#x2f;cr4.globalspec.com&#x2f;blogentry&#x2f;11452&#x2f;Book-Review-A-New-Leadership-Ethos-Part-2&#x3f;from_rss&#x3d;1]]></link><description><![CDATA[&#x22;All forms of organization are essentially ecosystems,&#x22;&#xd; writes Dr. Marc van der Erve in A New&#xd; Leadership Ethos&#x3a; The Ability to Predict. Businesses respond to their&#xd; environments and obey both &#x22;basic laws of energy&#x22; and &#x22;Darwinian notions&#x22;.&#xd; Organizations also develop in &#x22;four distinct stages&#x22;, e]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22&#x3a;01&#x3a;00 EST</pubDate><guid><![CDATA[https&#x3a;&#x2f;&#x2f;cr4.globalspec.com&#x2f;blogentry&#x2f;11452&#x2f;Book-Review-A-New-Leadership-Ethos-Part-2]]></guid><dc:creator>Steve Melito</dc:creator><dc:subject>The CR4 Book Club</dc:subject></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book Review&#x3a; A New Leadership Ethos &#x28;Part 1&#x29;]]></title><link><![CDATA[https&#x3a;&#x2f;&#x2f;cr4.globalspec.com&#x2f;blogentry&#x2f;11451&#x2f;Book-Review-A-New-Leadership-Ethos-Part-1&#x3f;from_rss&#x3d;1]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is temporal. During each stage of an&#xd; organization&#x27;s life, a different type of leader is needed. No business is &#x22;built&#xd; to last&#x22; either, regardless of the popularity of a book by Jim Collins by that&#xd; same name.&#xa;&#xa;&#xd; &#xd; &#xd; &#xd; &#xd; &#xd; &#xd; &#xd; &#xd; &#xd; &#xd; These are just some of  the ideas of Dr. Marc van der]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21&#x3a;55&#x3a;00 EST</pubDate><guid><![CDATA[https&#x3a;&#x2f;&#x2f;cr4.globalspec.com&#x2f;blogentry&#x2f;11451&#x2f;Book-Review-A-New-Leadership-Ethos-Part-1]]></guid><dc:creator>Steve Melito</dc:creator><dc:subject>The CR4 Book Club</dc:subject></item><item><title><![CDATA[8 Ways to Great&#x3a; Peak Performance on the Job and in Your Life &#x28;Part 2&#x29;]]></title><link><![CDATA[https&#x3a;&#x2f;&#x2f;cr4.globalspec.com&#x2f;blogentry&#x2f;11220&#x2f;8-Ways-to-Great-Peak-Performance-on-the-Job-and-in-Your-Life-Part-2&#x3f;from_rss&#x3d;1]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is losing sometimes better than winning&#x3f; What does it mean to live on the left side of your but&#x3f; And why would workers far from Wall Street listen to an adviser to traders about the importance of &#x22;accountability&#x22;&#x3f;&#xa;&#xa;&#xd; &#xd; In 8 Ways to Great&#x3a; Peak Performance on the Job and in Your Life, Dr. Doug]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22&#x3a;01&#x3a;00 EST</pubDate><guid><![CDATA[https&#x3a;&#x2f;&#x2f;cr4.globalspec.com&#x2f;blogentry&#x2f;11220&#x2f;8-Ways-to-Great-Peak-Performance-on-the-Job-and-in-Your-Life-Part-2]]></guid><dc:creator>Steve Melito</dc:creator><dc:subject>The CR4 Book Club</dc:subject></item><item><title><![CDATA[8 Ways to Great&#x3a; Peak Performance on the Job and in Your Life &#x28;Part 1&#x29;]]></title><link><![CDATA[https&#x3a;&#x2f;&#x2f;cr4.globalspec.com&#x2f;blogentry&#x2f;11213&#x2f;8-Ways-to-Great-Peak-Performance-on-the-Job-and-in-Your-Life-Part-1&#x3f;from_rss&#x3d;1]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do hedge fund managers really have in common with&#xd; engineers&#x3f; And why would someone who advises Wall&#x27;s Street elite want to&#xd; develop a dialog with a community of technical professionals&#x3f; In 8 Ways to Great&#x3a; Peak Performance on the Job&#xd; and in Your Life, Dr. Doug Hirschhorn provides a practica]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21&#x3a;59&#x3a;00 EST</pubDate><guid><![CDATA[https&#x3a;&#x2f;&#x2f;cr4.globalspec.com&#x2f;blogentry&#x2f;11213&#x2f;8-Ways-to-Great-Peak-Performance-on-the-Job-and-in-Your-Life-Part-1]]></guid><dc:creator>Steve Melito</dc:creator><dc:subject>The CR4 Book Club</dc:subject></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unscientific America&#x3a; The Future In Our Bones]]></title><link><![CDATA[https&#x3a;&#x2f;&#x2f;cr4.globalspec.com&#x2f;blogentry&#x2f;10512&#x2f;Unscientific-America-The-Future-In-Our-Bones&#x3f;from_rss&#x3d;1]]></link><description><![CDATA[&#x22;The problem with the Internet is obvious to anyone who has ever used it,&#x22; write Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum in the final part of Unscientific America&#x3a; How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future. &#x22;There&#x27;s tons of information available, but much of it is crap&#x22;.&#xa;&#xa;&#xd; &#xd; The Bloggers Cannot Sa]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18&#x3a;55&#x3a;00 EST</pubDate><guid><![CDATA[https&#x3a;&#x2f;&#x2f;cr4.globalspec.com&#x2f;blogentry&#x2f;10512&#x2f;Unscientific-America-The-Future-In-Our-Bones]]></guid><dc:creator>Steve Melito</dc:creator><dc:subject>The CR4 Book Club</dc:subject></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unscientific America&#x3a; Different Rifts, Still Divided]]></title><link><![CDATA[https&#x3a;&#x2f;&#x2f;cr4.globalspec.com&#x2f;blogentry&#x2f;10450&#x2f;Unscientific-America-Different-Rifts-Still-Divided&#x3f;from_rss&#x3d;1]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 2007, two Hollywood screenwriters launched a grassroots, nonpartisan&#xd; initiative called ScienceDebate2008 to encourage America&#x27;s presidential candidates&#xd; to publicly debate science policy. Scientists thought this was a &#x22;great idea&#x22;, Unscientific America explains, &#x22;because they&#xd; assumed that the r]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04&#x3a;00&#x3a;00 EST</pubDate><guid><![CDATA[https&#x3a;&#x2f;&#x2f;cr4.globalspec.com&#x2f;blogentry&#x2f;10450&#x2f;Unscientific-America-Different-Rifts-Still-Divided]]></guid><dc:creator>Steve Melito</dc:creator><dc:subject>The CR4 Book Club</dc:subject></item></channel></rss>