Kurt Vonnegut

The High-Speed Company: A book review by Bob Morris

March 26, 2015

The High-Speed Company: Creating Urgency and Growth in a Nanosecond Culture Jason Jennings with Laurence Haughton Portfolio/Penguin Group (March 2015) How to accelerate personal growth and professional development in almost any organization, whatever its size or nature In one of…

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The Power and Value of a “Mind Opening Team”

March 20, 2015

In the final chapter of his latest book, The High-Speed Company, written with Larry Haughton, Jason Jennings cites a conversation in one of Kurt Vonnegut’s novels, Bluebeard, when the painter Rabo Kazrabekian listens to his neighbor, Paul Slazinger, who tells…

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Secrets of the Creative Brain

June 28, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Nancy Andreasen for The Atlantic magazine. A leading neuroscientist who has spent decades studying creativity, she shares her research on where genius comes from, whether it is dependent on high IQ—and…

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Famous Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers

July 23, 2013

Those of us who write for profit and/or pleasure owe a substantial debt to Maria Popova whose website, Brain Pickings, provides an abundance of valuable material. Here’s a case in point. According to Popova, “By popular demand, I’ve put together…

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Quotations of Timeless Relevance

January 16, 2013

o “Enjoy the little things in life, for someday you will realize that they were the big things.” – Source Unknown o “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” – Douglas Adams o…

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