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Five Trends in AI and Data Science for 2025

January 13, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Thomas H. Davenport and Randy Beanfor the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others,  sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration…

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Three Ways to Lead Learning

January 11, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Gianpiero Petriglieri for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit:  Franck Bohbot   *…

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The Purpose Code: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 11, 2025

The Purpose Code: How to Unlock Meaning, Maximize Happiness, and Leave a Lasting Legacy Jordan Grumet Harriman House (January 2025) Here is a  series of self-helpful prescriptions Long ago, I concluded that it is very difficult — if not impossible…

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Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 9, 2025

Your  Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age: Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory Overload Richard C. Cytowic MIT Press (October 2024) The story of how and why we became “helplessly distracted” began long ago. Richard Cytowic is convinced that…

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MIT SMR’s 10 AI Must-Reads for 2024

January 8, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by William Reed for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others,  sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit:  Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT…

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Smart Rivals: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 8, 2025

Smart Rivals: How Innovative Companies Play Games That Tech Giants Can’t Win Feng Zhu and Bonnie Yining Cao Harvard Business Review Press (August 2024) The smart rival company’s road to success is paved with smart innovation Most of the counsel…

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Psychological Safety: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 7, 2025

Psychological Safety (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series) Multiple Contributors in collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (September 2024) “It is difficult to free fools from the chains they cherish.”  Voltaire This is one of the volumes in the HBR…

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Six problem-solving mindsets for very uncertain times

January 7, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Charles Conn and Robert McLean for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up for…

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Leading Through: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 6, 2025

Leading Through: Activating the Soul, Heart, and Mind of Leadership Kim B. Clark, Jonathan R. Clark, and Erin E. Clark Harvard Business Review Press (September 2024) “If you’ve always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.” Charles Kettering I was…

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Essays in Biography: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 5, 2025

Essays in Biography Joseph Epstein Axios Press (2012) The more we learn about others, it seems, the better we understand ourselves…at least sometimes I have read most of Joseph Epstein’s 13 collections of essays dating back to Divorced in America:…

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