Richard Florida

The Year in Tech 2024: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 5, 2024

The Year in Tech 2024: Thoughts You Need from Harvard Business Review Various Contributors in Collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (January 2024) How and why integrative technologies will determine performance results, for better or worse.   As I…

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The Genius of Richard Florida: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

April 16, 2022

Richard Florida is the author of several global best-sellers: The Rise of the Creative Class, The Breakthrough Illusion, Beyond Mass Production, The Flight of the Creative Class, and Who’s Your City? In The Great Reset, he explains how new ways…

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The Top 50 Management Thinkers (2015)

February 5, 2016

Here is an excerpt from an article by Jeff Schmitt for Poets & Quants. To read the complete article, check out others, and sign up for a free newsletter, please click here. * * * It wasn’t the “Thrilla in…

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Building the creative economy: An interview with Richard Florida

January 9, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an edited version of an interview of Richard Florida by Rik Kikland, senior managing editor of McKinsey Publishing, in which Florida explains how creative companies and the venture capital that drives them are increasingly…

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The Psychology of the Creative Class: Not as Creative as You Think

April 8, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from a blog post by Richey Piiparinen. To check out all the resources at his website, learn more about his work, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. Lead photo: The vibe in…

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TheAtlanticCities.com, the New Digital Property of The Atlantic, Launches Today

September 15, 2011

I have just received this exciting announcement from Natalie Raabe and am pleased to share it with you. As we proceed through the so-called “Age of Information,” an age that seems to be more like a blizzard each day, some sources…

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The Silver Lining: A book review by Bob Morris

August 17, 2011

The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times Scott D. Anthony Harvard Business Press (2009) According to Scott Anthony, the “Great Disruption” refers to the current time when tumultuous change is “ripping through markets at unprecedented pace. Competitive advantage…

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The Great Reset: A book review by Bob Morris

June 26, 2011

The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity Richard Florida Harper (2010) With each reconfiguration of the economic landscape, there’s “good news” and “bad news In the first chapter, Richard Florida explains that peaks and…

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Richard Florida, First Interview, by Bob Morris

September 15, 2010

Richard Florida is the author of several global best-sellers: The Rise of the Creative Class, The Breakthrough Illusion, Beyond Mass Production, The Flight of the Creative Class, and Who’s Your City? In his latest book, The Great Reset, he explains…

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