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In The Origin of (almost) Everything, Graham Lawton and his colleagues at New Scientist explain what happened immediately after the Big Bang occurred. “Around 13.8 billion years ago matter, energy, time and space spontaneously sprang from nothing in the…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by James Surowiecki for Strategy+Business, published by certain member firms of the PwC network. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. * * * In her book on…
Read MoreHere is a brief excerpt from an article written by Jacques Bughin and Jonathan Woetzel for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm, obtain subscription…
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The term “reality distortion field” was first used by Bud Tribble at Apple Computer in 1981, to describe company co-founder Steve Jobs’s charisma and its effects on the developers working on the Macintosh project. Tribble said that the term came…
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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 When you’re staffing a high-profile project, you want an all-star team. But it’s…
Read MoreGrowth is a new game shaped by rising consumer expectations, increasing competition, and digital disruption. Today’s winners are those that can spot opportunities at hyper-granular levels and then capture them quickly. Most C-level executives need a guide to how market…
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In Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin suggests that Abraham Lincoln was an integrative thinker. Specifically, that following his election as President in 1860, Lincoln assembled a cabinet whose members included several of his strongest political opponents: Edwin M. Stanton as…
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Bob Woodward‘s latest book, Fear: Trump in the White House, was published on September 11, 2018. Given recent developments since the publication of it, I decided to revisit an interview of him at a Politics and Prose event at George…
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Explore 10 surprising facts about the civil rights leader that Christopher Klein shares in an article for history.com. Here are four of them. 1. King’s birth name was Michael, not Martin. The civil rights leader was born Michael King Jr. on…
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