Month: September 2020

2030: A book review by Bob Morris

September 8, 2020

2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything Mauro F. Guillén St. Martin’s Press (August 2020) “The future is not what it used to be.” Laura Riding and Robert Graves Here is the context for…

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Valuable lessons from “titans”: An interview of Scott Davis, Carter Copeland, and Rob Wertheimer

September 7, 2020

Scott Davis serves as Chairman and CEO of Melius Research, where he is also the lead research analyst covering the multi-industry sector. With 25 years of experience in industrials equity research, he has ranked in the top decile of Wall…

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Hyper-Learning: A book review by Bob Morris

September 7, 2020

Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change Edward D. Hess Berrett-Koehler Publishers (September 2020) “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”  George Bernard Shaw J. H. Flavell was probably the first to use the term…

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Are they all “losers”?

September 5, 2020

Joseph Biden doesn’t think so.

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The first Labor Day

September 5, 2020

Before I began some research on the subject years ago, 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.…

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If you won’t help yourself, don’t expect anyone else to.

September 5, 2020

In LeaderSHOP Volume 3: Workplace, Career, and Life Advice From Today’s Top Thought Leaders, Rodger Dean Duncan provides an abundance of practical advice that is timely as well as timeless This is the third volume in a series of anthologies…

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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: A book review by Bob Morris

September 4, 2020

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Shoshana Zuboff PublicAffairs (January 2019) How to contest and interrupt, then contain and vanquish an unprecedented threat to the human race Note: Here…

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Charting Your Company’s Future

September 4, 2020

  Here is an excerpt from an article by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne, one of the most popular ever published by Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription…

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The ways we’re telling time, they really are a-changin’

September 3, 2020

In 2030, Mauro F. Guillén  suggests what will probably happen — as well as how and why it will probably happen — during the next decade. He carefully reviews historical precedents, including the wristwatch. Briefly, a revolution followed World War…

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The big boost: How incumbents successfully scale their new businesses

September 3, 2020

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Sonia Barquin, Ralf Dreischmeier, Sascha Hertli, Jerome Königsfeld, and Andrew Roth for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more…

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