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What Happens When Data Scientists and Designers Work Together

March 29, 2018

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jon Wettersten and Dean Malmgren 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…

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25 Strange Facts From History You Probably Didn’t Learn In School

March 25, 2018

25 Strange Facts From History You Probably Didn’t Learn In School Source: List25 25 Officially, the longest war in history was between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly, which lasted from 1651 to 1986. There were no casualties. 24…

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Laurie Picard on getting the business education you need: An interview by Bob Morris

March 21, 2018

When some of the most prestigious business schools in the world began providing free versions of their courses online, Laurie Pickard saw an opportunity to get the business education she had long desired, at a fraction of the typical MBA…

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Who is Chris Langan and why is he significant?

March 18, 2018

In a book published published by Little, Brown & Company ten years ago, Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell has this to say about Chris Langan: “Over the past decade [i.e. 1998-2008], Chris Langan has achieved a strange kind…

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Mary Wells Lawrence (1966): One of 10 Female Founders Whose Inspirations Inspire

March 16, 2018

It may come as a surprise to you that, from the computer to an ice-cream maker, some of the most important discoveries and inventions were by women. We’ve all heard of famous inventors such as Thomas Jefferson (Monticello’s Great Clock),…

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How Leaders Can Keep Their Cool in a Crisis

February 28, 2018

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Mark Bonchek and Cara France 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…

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The Fearless Front Line: A book review by Bob Morris

February 28, 2018

The Fearless Front Line: The Key to Liberating Leaders to Improve and Grow Their Business Ray Attiyah Bibliomotion Books & Media (2013) Two key questions: “Liberate leaders from what?” and “How to do that?” No one can deny that every…

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The Art of Strategy Is About Knowing When to Say No

February 23, 2018

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Brian Halligan for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the Illustration complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…

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How and why most of what we call “thinking” really isn’t

February 20, 2018

In the latest of five bestselling books, Unthinking: The Surprising Forces Behind What We Buy, Harry Beckwith shares a number of especially valuable insights and I have consolidated several of them in these two mosaics of excerpts: “We could excuse…

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Edward (“Ned”) Hallowell: An interview by Bob Morris

February 18, 2018

Are you looking for practical, how-to solutions to life’s personal challenges? Best selling author Dr. Edward (“Ned”) Hallowell offers groundbreaking advice on how to survive in an ultra-competitive, ultra fast, attention deficit society while remaining sane, how to raise happy…

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