Month: January 2013
101 Design Methods: A Structured Approach for Driving Innovation in Your Organization Vijay Kumar John Wiley & Sons (2013) “If innovation is so important, why aren’t more organizations better at it? Why are innovation failure rates so high?” Vijay Kumar…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article in The American Scholar written by William Deresiewicz. He asserts that our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers The American Scholar is the…
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Train Your Brain For Success: Read Smarter, Remember More, and Break Your Own Records Roger Seip John Wiley & Sons (2012) How to increase personal growth and professional development with accelerated learning to achieve “record-breaking” results” Roger Seip is not…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and featured by the website of Edge.org, a nonprofit private operating foundation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Copyright © 2012 By Edge Foundation, Inc. All…
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Remarkably few business executives are familiar with Malcolm McNair’s name, much less with his books and articles, and that’s a shame because he was one of the most influential business thinkers in the 20th century. One of his most important…
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Roger Nierenberg is a highly successful conductor who has performed with some of the most distinguished orchestras in America and Europe. Through his interactive program, The Music Paradigm, he has taught hundreds of top companies around the world how…
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The website Brain Pickings is the brain child of Maria Popova, an “interestingness hunter-gatherer and curious mind at large,” who also writes for Wired UK and The Atlantic, among others, and is an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow. She has…
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The Catalyst: How You Can Become an Extraordinary Growth Leader Jeanne Liedtka, Robert Rosen, and Robert Wiltback Crown Business (2009) Note: I read this book when it was first published and recently re-read it. If anything, what it offers is even more…
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Quotations of Timeless Relevance
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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