Month: September 2015
America’s Moment: Creating Opportunity in the Connected Age Rework America Initiative (56 contributors) sponsored by the Markle Foundation W. W. Norton & Company (2015) How to reinvigorate a unique American tradition: “the restless desire to master our fate, joined in…
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In Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, Bo Burlingham explains how and why the size of a company does not determine whether or not it has these characteristics. Rather, he identifies 14 companies that he…
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Charles Thomas Munger (born January 1, 1924) is an American business magnate, lawyer, investor, and philanthropist. He is Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Corporation, the diversified investment corporation chaired by Warren Buffett; in this capacity, Buffett describes Charlie Munger as “my…
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Finish BIG: How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top Bo Burlingham Portfolio/Penguin Random House (2015) “In theory there is no difference between theory and practice [when selling a company]. In practice there is.” Yogi Berra As I began to…
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In The Silo Effect, Gillian Tett explores “the peril of expertise and the promise of breaking down barriers. ” As she explains, the word originated in ancient Greece and referred to a “corn pit.” Over time, the word has referred…
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Unexpectedly, I came upon an article in Psychology Today (May 12, 2014) by Marilyn Price-Mitchell in which she includes a list of brief but insightful observations by a wide variety of 40 prominent people. Here are the first 15: o…
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Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by David A. Garvin and Michael A. Roberto, published in the October 2001 issue of Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain…
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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 Patty Stonesifer, . To read…
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Here is a blog post by Josh Linker, an especially original thinker and a highly successful entrepreneur. To learn more about him and his exciting work, please click here. * * * Einstein’s famous theory of relativity (E=MC2) celebrates its…
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Lawrence Peter (“Yogi”) Berra: Master Communicator
Yogi Berra‘s recent death has activated a recycling of malapropisms attributed to him despite his denial, “I never really said all those things that I said!” The obituaries praise his talents and achievements as a baseball player but no one…
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