Month: October 2021

What You May Not Know About Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope

October 7, 2021

Star Wars (retroactively titled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is a 1977 American epic space-opera film written and directed by George Lucas, produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford,…

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Sunday Reading: Prodigies

October 7, 2021

Here is a brief item contributed by David Remnick to The New Yorker. To  check out other articles and obtain information about deep-discount subscription rates, please click here. Credit: Getty Images * * * The prodigy is an eternal source…

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The Future of Flexibility at Work

October 6, 2021

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Patricia Gettings, Ellen Ernst Kossek, and Kaumudi Misra for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information,…

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The wit and wisdom of Frederick Douglass

October 6, 2021

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, 1817-895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous…

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Transformation in uncertain times: Tackling both the urgent and the important

October 5, 2021

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Darius Bates, David Dorton, Seth Goldstrom, and Yasir Mirza for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up…

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Nudge: A book review by Bob Morris

October 5, 2021

Nudge: The Final Edition Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein Penguin Books (August 2021) “Letting the other chap have it your way.” This is an updated and revised version of a book first published in 2008. The first four…

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One man’s opinion: The best biography of Robert E. Lee…thus far

October 4, 2021

Here is a brief except from John Eisenhower’s review of Emory M. Thomas’ superb Robert E. Lee: A Biography, featured in The New York Times (1995). To read the complete review, check out other resources, and obtain information about deep-discount…

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Radical Product Thinking: A book review by Bob Morris

October 4, 2021

Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter R. Dutt Berrett-Koehler Publishers (September 2021) How to dedvelop the mindset needed to design vision-driven products and services I agree with Radhika Dutt that “product” is a way of thinking, not…

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Our Brains Were Not Built for This Much Uncertainty

October 3, 2021

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Heidi Grant and Tal Goldhamer 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…

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The Secret Lives of Leonardo da Vinci

October 2, 2021

Here is a brief excerpt from a book review by Claudia Roth Pierpont for The New Yorker. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration by Tamara Shopsin; engraving from Hulton Archive / Getty *…

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