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Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process John McPhee Farrar, Strauss & Giroux (September 2017) “Actually, the essence of the process is revision.” I have read many of John McPhee’s previously published books and consider him to be among the…
Read MoreJeffrey Bussgang is a venture capitalist, entrepreneur and entrepreneurship professor at Harvard Business School (HBS). His venture capital firm, Flybridge Capital Partners, has over $600 million under management and made investments in over 100 technology-focused startups since inception over fifteen…
Read MoreHBR 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness: A book review by Bob Morris HBR Editions & Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2017) How those who possess the right stuff can accelerate their personal growth and professional development This is…
Read MoreIn Draft No. 4, John McPhee shares what he has learned about the process of writing. Thus far, he has created 32 volumes of general non-fiction, all published by Farrar Strauss Giroux, and hundreds of articles for Time magazine, then…
Read MoreWhile surfing recently, I came upon a website that was new to me: One Minute List. Here is one of its several dozen lists: 1. The shortest war, The Anglo-Zanzibar war (1896) on record lasted for 38 minutes. 2. Saddam…
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Exercising Your Brain to Achieve Cognitive Fitness: A Personal Program
In their classic HBR article, “Cognitive Fitness” (November 2007), Roderick Gilkey and Clint Kilts explain how to exercise your brain. Here is a brief excerpt. o o o So how can you become cognitively fit? Drawing selectively from the…
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