Commentaries

The 25 most-viewed YouTube videos of all time

August 14, 2017

Here is an introduction to an article by Grant Pardee and Kristen Hubby for The Daily Dot in which they introduce and discuss the 25 most-viewed YouTube videos of all time. To learn more about The Daily Dot and/or check…

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Amazon’s core competence: storytelling

August 13, 2017

In The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google (Portfolio/Penguin Random House, October 2017), Scott Galloway suggests that Amazon’s core competence in storytelling. How so? “Through storytelling, outlining a huge vision, Amazon has reshaped the relationship between company…

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The Wit and Wisdom of Milton Friedman: Part 2

August 12, 2017

Milton Friedman (1912-2006) was an American economist who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and the complexity of stabilization policy. These are among my favorite Friedman observations:…

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The power of compound interest, for better or worse

August 11, 2017

The title of Alice Schroeder’s biography of Warren Buffett is The Snowball. Why? When he was a child in Omaha, Buffett and other children were sledding down a hill. At one point, he noticed that a snowman had fallen over…

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What it takes to become a trillion-dollar company

August 10, 2017

In The Four, published by Portfolio/Penguin Random House (October 2017), Scott Galloway examines “four technology giants [that] have inspired more joy, connections, prosperity, and discovery than any [other] entity in history. Along the way, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google have…

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Are you eager to learn what you need to know about business?

August 9, 2017

  In The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, published by Portfolio/Penguin Random House (October 2017), Scott Galloway claims that “it’s never been easier to be a billionaire, but it’s never been harder to be a…

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Howard Gardner on “Beyond Wit and Grit: Rethinking the Keys to Success”

August 8, 2017

Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also an adjunct professor of psychology at Harvard University and senior director of its Harvard Project Zero.…

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In Disagreements at Work, Consider Your Colleague’s Perspective

August 7, 2017

Here 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. * * * When you get into a disagreement with a coworker, it’s…

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One of the Greatest Business Decisions: How Intel got consumers to love its chips (1991)

August 7, 2017

The material that follows is adapted from The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time: Apple, Ford, IBM, Zappos, and others made radical choices that changed the course of business, by Verne Harnish, CEO of Gazelles, and the editors of Fortune,…

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“True Grit: Can Perseverance be Taught?” Angela Duckworth Responds

August 6, 2017

  Angela Lee Duckworth is an American academic, psychologist and popular science author. She is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studies grit and self-control. In recent years, she has been constantly…

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