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HBR 10 Must Reads on AI, Analytics, and the New Age: A book review by Bob Morris

January 6, 2022

HBR’s 10 Must Reads On AI, Analytics, and the New Machine Age HBR Editors and Various Other Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (February 2019) How New Technologies Such as AI Will Transform Most Companies Within the Next Three Years This is…

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Here are the 20 Most Popular TED Talks of All Time

June 22, 2017

Richard Saul Wurman created the TED conference in 1984 as a onetime event. (As you may already know,TED refers to Technology, Education, and Design.) It became a four-day conference six years later. Chris Anderson purchased TED in 2001. Until 2005,…

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TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking: A book review by Bob Morris

May 16, 2016

TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking Chris Anderson Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (May 2016) How to take “something you really care about and rebuild it inside the minds” of those with whom you share it I cannot think…

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HBR Guide to Building Your Business Case: A book review by Bob Morris

May 10, 2016

HBR Guide to Building Your Business Case Raymond Sheen with Amy Gallo Harvard Business Review Press (2015) Here is a five-step process to prepare and then deliver a “killer” presentation Most of the volumes in the “HBR Guide to” series…

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How to Give a Killer Presentation

May 8, 2016

I have watched each of the most popular TED presentations, not once but several times. (Please click here to check them out.) My personal favorites include Ken Robinson’s “Do schools kill creativity?,” Amy Cuddy’s “Your body language shapes who you…

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Linus Torvalds: The Mind behind Linux

April 16, 2016

Linus Torvalds transformed technology twice — first with Linux, which helps power the Internet, and again with Git, the source code management system used by coders worldwide. In a rare interview with TED‘s curator, Chris Anderson, Torvalds discusses with remarkable…

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The “Six Ds of Exponential Development”

January 28, 2015

In Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World, Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler have much of value to share on the subject of exponential thinking. That is, think in terms of compounding or doubling (1,…

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Here are the 20 Most Popular TED Talks of All Time

November 30, 2014

Richard Saul Wurman created the TED conference in 1984 as a onetime event. (As you may already know,TED refers to Technology, Education, and Design.) It became a four-day conference six years later. Chris Anderson purchased TED in 2001. Until 2005, it remained a once-a-year…

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The Ten Most Watched TED-Ed Programs Thus Far

May 15, 2014

Here is a recent announcement from the TED Organization that will be of special interest to those such as I who remain profoundly concerned about the quality of education (at all levels) in the United States. * * * The…

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Yves Morieux: “As work gets more complex, here are 6 rules to simplify.”

May 14, 2014

Richard Saul Wurman created the TED conference in 1984 as a onetime event. (As you may already know, TED refers to Technology, Education, and Design.) It became a four-day conference six years later. Chris Anderson purchased TED in 2001. Until…

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