Month: December 2012
Here is a brief blog post with a link to the complete article to which Sir Richard Branson refers. If there were a Rushmorean monument for entrepreneurs, he would undoubtably be among the four selected. Frankly, the older I get,…
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Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired Company Really Works Adam Lashinsky BusinessPlus (2012) Why and how a “productive narcissist” created a “giant jumble of contradictions and paradoxes” If for whatever reasons you have not as yet — and will not…
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Soon most of us will be exchanging holiday gifts and perhaps you’ll be asked what you would like to have. Why not suggest some business books? In my opinion, whether as a gift from someone else or one you give…
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The Better Mousetrap: Brand Invention in a Media Democracy Simon Pont Kogan Page (2012) “Reality is a collective hunch.” Lily Tomlin When I noted the subtitle of Simon Pont’s book, “Brand Invention in a Media of Democracy,” I immediately –…
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Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Tony Tjan, chief executive of Cue Ball, a venture capital firm based…
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Not a weekday goes by that someone doesn’t tell me, “I can’t afford a consultant” or “Our company can’t afford a consultant.” That may well be true. However, fortunately, there is no shortage of information, insights, and advice available and…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Clark G. Gilbert, Matthew J. Eyring, and Richard N. Foster for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. If you read this article, you will learn how to develop…
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o “Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you…yet, someone survived…You can do anything you choose to do.” Maya Angelou o “It is not the…
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Yves Doz, Professor of Strategic Management and Solvay Chaired Professor of Technological Innovation, INSEAD. Professor Doz started working on innovation and multinationals during his doctoral studies at the Harvard Business School, in the 1970s. Together with C.K. Prahalad, a close…
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Bennett & Vivian Levin Honor America’s Heroes On Special “Liberty Limited” Train to Army Navy Game
The annual Army-Navy football game was played last Saturday. There are so many interesting stories associated with this game since it was first played in 1890 at West Point, New York. The U.S. Naval Academy prevailed then, 24-20, and did…
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