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Key Insights All Executives Need to Consider

January 7, 2021

“How can I leverage the capabilities of disruptive technologies to accelerate my personal growth and professional development?” That is a question many executives are now asking as a new calendar year proceeds, amidst what may well be the worst pandemic…

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Recommendation Engines: A book review by Bob Morris

December 12, 2020

Recommendation Engines (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Michael Schrage The MIT Press (September 2020) How and why recommendation engines can help to create more valuable people I have not read in recent years a more entertaining or a more…

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Amazon’s Day 1 Mindset

November 27, 2020

In recently published Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder and CEO explains why — from the beginning — he and his management team have been guided by a Day 1 mindset. “Staying in Day…

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Whole Foods Founder: “The Whole World Is Getting Fat”

October 2, 2020

Here is another superb article from David Gelles for The New York Times in which he shares his conversation with John Mackey. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain information about deep-discount subscriptions, please click here. Credit:…

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The Secrets of Bezos: How Amazon Became the Everything Store

September 24, 2020

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Brad Stone for Bloomberg Businessweek. He spoke to hundreds of current and former employees, as well as friends and family of founder Jeff Bezos, to discover the poignant story of…

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Joel Peterson on “entrepreneurial leadership”

March 28, 2020

Amazon now sells more than 100,000  books in the “leadership” category. Every so often, a new one breaks through the clutter and chatter with a few ideas that can really help to accelerate the personal growth and professional development of…

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The “secret sauce” of Google’s idea generation

September 11, 2019

In Reinventing the Organization, Arthur Yeung and Dave Ulrich explain “how companies can deliver radically greater value in fast-changing markets.” They focus on several companies, including Amazon, Facebook, and Google, in the U.S.; Alibaba, Huawei, and Tencent in China; and…

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The Big Nine: A book review by Bob Morris

March 10, 2019

The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity Amy Webb Public Affairs (March 2019) So many questions: Great peril or great opportunity? Both? Neither? Who decides? As author Shoshana Zuboff explains, The Age of…

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Cal Newport on the power of decluttering

February 15, 2019

In Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Mostly Noisy World,  Cal Newport explains how and why the impact of technological tools on most people’s personal lives “is complicated by the fact that these tools mix harm with benefits.…

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Fabian Geyrhalter on why only a few brands are cherished and most aren’t: An interview by Bob Morris

March 17, 2018

Fabian Geyrhalter is a renowned brand strategist and the founder and Principal of FINIEN, a Los Angeles-based consultancy specializing in turning ventures into brands. Geyrhalter is also a columnist for Inc. and Forbes, and he has been published by the…

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