Month: September 2017
The Daily Edge: Simple Strategies to Increase Efficiency and Make an Impact Every Day David Horsager Berrett-Koehler Publishers We don’t always control our days. Rather our days tend to control us. This book by Horsager, a business strategist and speaker, is meant…
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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 Corey E. Thomas, chief executive…
Read MoreIn the updated and expanded edition of Competing on Analytics (first published in 2007), Tom Davenport and Jeanne Harris focus on an important lesson: “Extracting value from information is not primarily a matter of how much data you have or…
Read MoreHere 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. * * * It’s too easy to allow entire days to pass by…
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Transforming the customer experience requires a level of speed and precision that traditional approaches can’t meet. The best practitioners do it in real time. Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Line Hartvig Müller, Andrea Peyracchia, and…
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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 Matthew Prince, chief executive of…
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Before I began some research on the subject, I did not know that, until Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894, laborers who chose to participate in parades to celebrate anything had to forfeit a day’s wages. I am…
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Julian H. Bigelow’s “Maxims for Ideal Prognosticators”
In George Dyson’s classic, Turing’s Cathedral, he examines “the origins of the digital universe.” Dozens of passages caught my eye, including one wherein he discusses a list of George H. Bigelow’s fourteen “Maxims for Ideal Prognosticators.” They are eminently sensible…
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