Sometimes full of wonder, but mostly bewildered.
David Weitzner is at heart a philosopher who briefly became a music industry executive and has since spent nearly two decades in business schools, evolving into a professor of management who advocates for co-creation, not management.
David is the author of
Connected Capitalism:
How Jewish Wisdom Can Transform Work (University of Toronto Press hardcover and e-book; Penguin Random House audio), recently announced as a 2021 INDIES Book of the Year Bronze WINNER,
Fifteen Paths:
How to Tune out Noise, Turn on Imagination and Find Wisdom (ECW Press) and the Managing with Meaning blog for Psychology Today.
His writings also appear in outlets as diverse as MIT Sloan Management Review, Psychology Today, The Conversation, Business Insider, Tablet Magazine, and The National Post.
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