« Personne est mon nom », dit Ulysse au cyclope Polyphème, qui n’y voyait déjà que d’un œil avant d’être totalement plongé dans les ténèbres par la ruse d’Ulysse, auquel il avait pourtant offert, en toute magnanimité, de ne le dévorer qu’en dernier, pour le récompenser de ce vin divin qu’il lui versait à boire. Ulysse aux mille tours fait ici à son redoutable hôte les honneurs de sa mètis (« intelligence, sagesse habile ») la plus achevée – car sémantique (...) – en prétendant se nommer Outis, Pers... (shrink)

Can you succeed without being a terrible person? We often think not: recognizing that, as the old saying has it, "nice guys finish last." But does that mean you have to go to the other extreme and be a bully or Machiavellian to get anything done? In The Art of Fairness, bestselling author David Bodanis uses thrilling case studies to show there's a better path, leading neatly in between. He reveals how it was fairness, applied with skill, that led to (...) the speedy development of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, to construction ofthe Empire State Building to be constructed in barely a year, and to a quiet English debutante becoming an acclaimed jungle guerrilla fighter in World War II. In ten vivid profiles featuring pilots, filmmakers, baseball managers, and more, we see that the path to greatness doesn't require crushing displays of power or tyrannical ego. Simple fair decency can prevail. (shrink)