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Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World Melissa A. Schilling PublicAffairs (2/13/18) “What makes some people spectacularly innovative?” Melissa Schilling poses that question and then focuses on eight serial breakthrough…
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Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick: People, Probabilities, and Big Moves to Beat the Odds Chris Bradley, Martin Hirt, and Sven Smit John Wiley & Sons (February 13, 2018) What really matters — and what does not — for exceptional performance…
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In an article written for NPR, Arnie Seipel provides some information that was news to me. * * * Valentine’s Day is a time to celebrate romance and love and kissy-face fealty. But the origins of this festival of candy…
Read MoreThe material that follows is adapted from The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time: Apple, Ford, IBM, Zappos, and others made radical choices that changed the course of business, by Verne Harnish, CEO of Gazelles, and the editors of Fortune,…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Sabrin Chowdhury and Elizabeth Hioe for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm, obtain…
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Iconic Advantage: Don’t Chase the New, Innovate the Old Soon Yu with Dave Birss A Savio Republic Book (February 2018) How to enhance the Noticing Power and bolster the Staying Power of what you offer The offering could be a…
Read MoreThe Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are Alan Watts Vintage Books/Random House (1989) [Note: Of all the books I have reviewed for various Amazon websites thus far, none has attracted more reader comments than has this “little”…
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Note: The material that follows — presented in the present tense — was gathered from several sources, including Wikipedia and IMBDatabase. In 1961, mathematician Katherine Goble works as a human computer in the segregated division West Area Computers of the…
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The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future Skip Prichard Center Street Press/Hachette Book Group (February 6, 2018) “In order to fulfill your dreams, it is imperative to become an asker, a seeker, and a knocker.” I…
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Hidden Figures, Part 2: The Film
With regard to the film based on Hidden Figures, these points provided by IMBDatabase are of special interest to me: o While John Glenn did specifically request that Katherine Johnson review all of the numbers for the Friendship 7 mission…
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