Month: September 2015
Here are ten of my favorite Gates quotations: o Our vision for the last 20 years [i.e. since 1975] can be summarized in a succinct way. We saw that exponential improvements in computer capabilities would make great software quite valuable.…
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Brian Robertson is an experienced entrepreneur, CEO, and organizational pioneer. Forbes and Fast Company credit him for developing Holacracy, a comprehensive management system for governing and running organizations that are fast, agile, and that succeed by pursuing their purpose, free…
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In The Creator’s Code, Amy Wilkinson asserts that all of the most creative people in business “share certain fundamental approaches to the act of creation. The skills that make them successful can be learned, practiced, and passed on.” Each is…
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RFID Handbook: Fundamentals and Applications in Contactless Smart Cards, Radio Frequency Identification and Near-Field Communication Klaus Finkenzeller John Wiley & Sons (2010) The fundamentals of a retrieval system that can provide data whenever and wherever needed I am deeply grateful…
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies Nick Bostrom Oxford University Press (2015) How to approach what could be “quite possibly the most important and most daunting challenge humanity has ever faced” John H. Flavell was probably the first to use the term…
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Here are ten of my favorite Grove quotations: o Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. o When a change in how some element of one’s business is conducted becomes an order of magnitude larger than what…
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Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * We all need feedback to learn and grow, but if…
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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 Don Charlton, founder and C.E.O.…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Dave Itzkoff for The New York Times in which he discusses Stephen Colbert who begins as the new host of CBS’s Late Show on Tuesday, September 8th. To read the complete…
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Six building blocks for creating a high-performing digital enterprise
Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Driek Desmet, Ewan Duncan, Jay Scanlan, and Marc Singer for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about…
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