Month: November 2015

The problem with intuition: An interview with Daniel Kahneman

November 9, 2015

Here is an excerpt of an interview of Daniel Kahneman by Michael J. Mauboussin during a recent meeting of the Santa Fe Institute’s Business Network. According to Kahneman, intuition works less often than we think, noted Kahneman, winner of the…

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Reflections on Leadership from Gettysburg

November 9, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Paul Merrild for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…

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The Uses (and Abuses) of Influence: An interview of Robert Cialdini

November 8, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an interview of Robert Cialdini by Sarah Cliffe for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR…

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Wanted: More women in technology

November 8, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from Kara Sprague’s interview of Reshma Saujani for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. The founder of Girls Who Code (GWC) discusses the need for gender diversity in technical fields and ways companies…

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Mary A. Laschinger (C.E.O. of the Veritiv Corporation) in “The Corner Office”

November 7, 2015

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 Mary A. Laschinger, C.E.O. of…

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The Best Data Scientists Know How to Tell Stories

November 7, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Michael Li for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…

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Michael J. Mauboussin: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

November 6, 2015

Michael J. Mauboussin is Chief LMCM in 2004, Michael was Chief U.S. Investment Strategist at Credit Suisse. Michael joined CS in 1992 as a packaged food industry analyst, and was repeatedly named to Institutional Investor‘s All-America Research Team and The…

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Why Women Compete With Each Other

November 6, 2015

Here is an article by Emily V. Gordon for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: Laura Callaghan * * * I had a tightly knit…

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Getting Under His Skin: A New Biography of Frank Sinatra

November 6, 2015

Here is an excerpt from Edward Kosner‘s review in The Wall Street Journal of James Kaplan’s recently published Sinatra: The Chairman, a biography of a “mother-ridden boyhood in Jersey, bobby-sox mania, career eclipse, Ava Gardner, super-stardom, Rat Pack shenanigans, the…

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The Light-Beam Rider

November 5, 2015

Here is an article by Walter Isaacson for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: Jon Han * * * This month marks the 100th anniversary…

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