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Access Rules: A book review by Bob Morris

May 3, 2022

Access Rules: Freeing Data from Big Tech for a Better Future Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge University of California Press (April 2022) How and why access to information is the foundation of democratic decision-making Years ago, Eppie Lederer suggested, “If…

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The Genius of Richard Florida: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

April 27, 2022

Richard Florida is author of the global best-sellers, The Rise of the Creative Class and Who’s Your City? A more recent book,The Great Reset, explains how new ways of living and working will drive post-crash prosperity. Other works include The Flight of the Creative…

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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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Opinion: Supreme Court confirmations are a farce. Blame the Supreme Court.

March 3, 2022

Here is a brief excerpt from an article in The Washington Post by Dana Milbank. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain information about deep-discount subscriptions, please click here. * * * It’s a case of the…

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Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 17, 2022

David Remnick on The New Yorker‘s superb tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. * * * The commemoration of the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., comes just as the Senate, and the entire country, is embroiled in a…

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Chip Heath’s six basic traits of sticky ideas

January 8, 2022

Chip Heath’s research suggests that sticky ideas share six basic traits. • Simplicity. Messages are most memorable if they are short and deep. Glib sound bites are short, but they don’t last. Proverbs such as the golden rule are short…

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David Shor Is Telling Democrats What They Don’t Want to Hear

October 13, 2021

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Ezra Klein for The New York Times that really caught my eye. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain information about deep-discount subscriptions, please click here. Credit: Cristina Daura *…

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Books by and about a great president: Harry Truman and David McCullough

June 5, 2020

In Author in Chief, one of the most interesting books I have read in recent years, Craig Fehrman “tells the story of how, when, and why America’s presidents began writing books — and why Americans have been been so consistenty drawn…

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Paul Nunes and Larry Downes on organizational dexterity: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

September 8, 2019

Paul Nunes is the global managing director for thought leadership at Accenture Research where he leads the company’s principle business research programs. He is coauthor of four books, including Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation (2014),…

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Connect the Dots to See Where Trump’s Taking Us

June 17, 2019

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Thomas L. Friedman for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain information about deep-discount subscription rates, please click here. Credit: Doug Mills/The New York…

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