Commentaries

Daniel Isenberg on “Focus Entrepreneurship Policy on Scale-Up, Not Start-Up”

April 2, 2014

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Daniel Isenberg 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,…

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Elizabeth Gilbert on “Your elusive creative genius”

April 1, 2014

Richard Saul Wurman created the TED conference in 1984 as a onetime event. (As you may already know, TED refers to Technology, Education, and Design.) It became a four-day conference six years later. Chris Anderson purchased TED in 2001. Until…

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Ryan Babineaux and John Krumboltz on “Five Keys to Curiosity”

April 1, 2014

According to Ryan Babineaux and John Krumboltz, “Because people spend so much of their lives being talked out of (or talking themselves out of) their curiosity, they often lose a healthy connection to it. If you find that the strength…

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The Essential Management Book You’re Not Reading

April 1, 2014

Here is an excerpt from an article by Leigh Buchanan for Inc. magazine in which she explains why a handbook originally intended for software programmers, Extreme Programming Explained, is gaining a cult status for its simple leadership ideas. To read…

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Long Before Sheryl Sandberg, There Was My Mother, Lois Wyse

March 31, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an especially charming article written by Rob Wyse about his remarkable mother. To read the complete article and check out others written for LinkedIn Pulse, please click here. * * * Sheryl Sandberg wrote…

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Dan Pink on “The puzzle of motivation”

March 31, 2014

Richard Saul Wurman created the TED conference in 1984 as a onetime event. (As you probably know already, TED refers to Technology, Education, and Design.) It became a four-day conference six years later. Chris Anderson purchased TED in 2001. Until…

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Malcolm Gladwell on “The unheard story of David and Goliath”

March 30, 2014

Richard Saul Wurman created the TED conference in 1984 as a onetime event. (As you may already know, TED refers to Technology, Education, and Design.) It became a four-day conference six years later. Chris Anderson purchased TED in 2001. Until…

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How TED Changed Business Communication Forever

March 29, 2014

Here’s a brief excerpt from an article by Nancy Duarte and featured by LinkedIn Pulse. To check out all the articles posted by the website’s Influentials, please click here. * * * In 1995, Richard Saul Wurman, a renowned architect…

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Steve Jobs on “How to live before you die”

March 28, 2014

Richard Saul Wurman created the TED conference in 1984 as a onetime event. (As you probably know already, TED refers to Technology, Education, and Design.) It became a four-day conference six years later. Chris Anderson purchased TED in 2001. Until…

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Garry Kasparov: Cut Off the Russian Oligarchs and They’ll Dump Putin

March 27, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by for the Wall Street Journal in which Garry Kasparov suggests that U.S. foreign policy target Russian oligarchs’ assets abroad, their mansions and IPOs in London, their yachts. In other words, use…

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