Commentaries

Dorie Clark on “How Nate Silver Won the 2012 Presidential Election”

November 15, 2012

As President Obama and Mitt Romney can tell you, it’s getting harder every day to win public attention — thus, the billions they spent on this year’s presidential campaign. Overall, the election of 2012 has shown that we’re at a…

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Here’s an Important Innovation Lesson: Disrupt Before You’re Disrupted

November 15, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Patrick Houston and published by InformationWeek. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * Even innovators struggle with the pace of change. Here are some of the…

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How “social intelligence” can guide decisions

November 15, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article from The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company and written by Martin Harrysson, Estelle Metayer, and Hugo Sarrazin, in which they explain why, by offering decision makers rich real-time data, social…

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Nancy Koehn on “Ernest Shackleton’s Lessons for Leaders in Harsh Climates”

November 14, 2012

Background: After the race to the South Pole ended in 1912 with Roald Amundsen’s conquest, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874–1922) turned his attention to what he said was the one remaining great object of Antarctic journeying—the crossing of the continent…

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Chris Murphy on “How Do You Survive the Innovation Hamster Wheel?”

November 14, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Chris Murphy and published by InformationWeek magazine. To read the complete article, please click here. This is how two tech leaders do it, and we’d like to hear more tactics from you.…

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Nate Silver Is a One-Man Traffic Machine for the Times

November 13, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Marc Tracy and published by The New Republic magazine. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * “FiveThirtyEight is drawing huge traffic,” New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson…

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Lest we forget this Veteran’s Day….

November 10, 2012

During its first 100 years of existence, more than 683,000 Americans lost their lives, with the Civil War accounting for 623,026 of that total (91.2%). Comparatively, in the next 100 years, another estimated 625,000 Americans died through two World Wars…

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Russell L. Ackoff on “cleaning up messes”

November 10, 2012

In Redesigning the Future: Systems Approach to Societal Problems published by John S. Wiley & Sons (1974), Russell L. Ackoff provides a number of valuable insights when discussing the challenges that leaders face, notably coping with complexities and frustrations created…

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