EVEN if these three business savants seem to lack the power to mesmerize the masses as they once did, their books do have lessons to be extracted.
Children who were asked to produce these hand movements during a math lesson were able to extract the grouping strategy despite the fact that they were never explicitly told what the movements represented.
"Novick's sensible if unpopular conclusion" is that "we should study a historical event like the Holocaust not to extract lessons but to appreciate its complexities and contradictions," Lawrence L. Langer said here in 1999.
"The criticism we received seems important to me, with lessons we will try to extract," said Marie Lajus, a spokeswoman for the police.
The new book appears promising at first, because Mr. Useem seeks to extract lessons from the victories and failures of everyone from Civil War generals to Mount Everest climbers to biblical prophets.
We're meant to extract lessons from this: that a great artist can produce, like magic, priceless pictures by scratching lead and ink into paper or rubbing colored dirt on canvas but that mercury won't turn into gold.
In this 2010 volume, Rick Stengel, the ghostwriter of Mandela's autobiography, set out to extract "lessons on life, love and courage" he had learned from three years of immersion in Mandela's life.
This paper seeks to extract lessons for accounting researchers from anthropology, biology, chemistry, cosmology and medicine.
A firm's ability to extract lessons from both successes and failures and generate new insights is conducive to performance (Senge 1990; Wang 2008).
