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RFID Handbook: Fundamentals and Applications in Contactless Smart Cards, Radio Frequency Identification and Near-Field Communication Klaus Finkenzeller John Wiley & Sons (2010) The fundamentals of a retrieval system that can provide data whenever and wherever needed I am deeply grateful…
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies Nick Bostrom Oxford University Press (2015) How to approach what could be “quite possibly the most important and most daunting challenge humanity has ever faced” John H. Flavell was probably the first to use the term…
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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. * * * We all need feedback to learn and grow, but if…
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Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Don Charlton, founder and C.E.O.…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Dave Itzkoff for The New York Times in which he discusses Stephen Colbert who begins as the new host of CBS’s Late Show on Tuesday, September 8th. To read the complete…
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Here are ten of my favorite Buffett quotations: o It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results. o What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history. o Chains of habit are too…
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The TED organization offers a set of videos that offer a feast to those who are passionate about personal growth and professional development. Ann Landers once observed, “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Here’s good news: All TED…
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In his latest book, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Greg McKeown affirms the value of becoming and then remaining an essentialist, one who is committed “to the relentless pursuit of less but better. It does not mean occasionally giving…
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Before I began some research on the subject, I did not know that, until Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894, laborers who chose to participate in parades to celebrate anything had to forfeit a day’s wages. I am…
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The business wisdom of Andy Grove
Here are ten of my favorite Grove quotations: o Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. o When a change in how some element of one’s business is conducted becomes an order of magnitude larger than what…
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