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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers Ben Horowitz HarperBusiness (2014) One man’s thoughts and feelings about making especially difficult decisions and resolving especially difficult situations Up front: I think the word…
Read MoreIn Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation, Keith Sawyer suggests that there are eight stages to the creative process. He is convinced by extensive research (including his) that when most organizations conduct brainstorming sessions, it isn’t very effective. Why?…
Read MoreGeoffrey Moore is an author, speaker, and advisor who splits his consulting time between start-up companies in the Mohr Davidow portfolio and established high-tech enterprises, including most recently Salesforce, Microsoft, Intel, Box, Equinix, Aruba, and Cadence. His life’s work has…
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In Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence, Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb “emphasize trade-offs. More data means less privacy. More speed means less accuracy. More autonomy means less control…The best strategy for your company or career or country will…
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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. * * * To be effective, leaders need their team’s trust.…
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Here is a brief excerpt from a special report — in this instance by Anu Madgavkar, James Manyika, Mekala Krishnan, Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee, Jonathan Woetzel, Michael Chui, Vivian Hunt, Sruti Balakrishnan — for the McKinsey Global Institute that was…
Read MoreMany years ago when I began to teach English at the Kent School in Connecticut, I devised an acronym for my students based on two primary sources: Aristotle’s Rhetoric (4th century BCE) and Modern Rhetoric (1949) co-authored by Cleanth Brooks…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Sree Ramaswamy, Michael Birshan, James Manyika, Jacques Bughin, and Jonathan Woetzel for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn…
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During this national celebration of independence, I am especially aware of what brave women as well as men encountered/endured after the Declaration when waging war with what were then (by far) the most powerful military forces in the world. Near…
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Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson on Warfare Metaphors
Over the years in numerous posts, I have referred to Sun Tzu’s Art of War and von Causwitz’s On War, suggesting correlations between the battlefield and the marketplace. Both authors hated war because they had wide and deep experience with…
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