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In Loonshots, Safi Bacall explains how to nurture the crazy ideas that win wars, cure diseases, and transform industries. Of special interest to me is his extended discussion of Vannevar Bush‘s contributions to the Allies’ defeat of the Axis powers…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Klancy Miller. This is a portion of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. The photo below is of Georgia…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Sabina Nawaz 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, please click here.…
Read MoreHere is a brief excerpt from an interview of Francis Ford Coppola by Jake Coyle for the Associated Press. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * If filmmaking is a war, then Apocalypse Now was very…
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How would you like to tour Disneyland…with Walt Disney as your guide? Well, you can if you click here. And to learn much more about Disney’s life and work, please click here.
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We know very little about William Shakespeare (1564-1616), although we know a great deal about the world in which he lived. We also know that Simon Callow (born in 1949) is one of the most talented (albeit underappreciated) actors who…
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Who said it first? Steve Jobs? Pablo Picasso? T. S. Eliot? W. H. Davenport Adams? Lionel Trilling? Igor Stravinsky? William Faulkner? Apocryphal? Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Garson O’Toole for Quote Investigator, a blog that…
Read MoreHere is a reprise of a blog post that offers several valuable reminders at a time when civility remains an endangered species in our society. The way I heard it, Coach Bryant told the following story at a Touchdown Club…
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The future of work in America: People and places, today and tomorrow
Here is a brief excerpt from a special report from the McKinsey Global Institute, written by Susan Lund, James Manyika, Liz Hilton Segel, André Dua, Bryan Hancock, Scott Rutherford, and Brent Macon, and featured in the McKinsey Quarterly, published by…
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