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Daniel Kahneman is an Israeli psychologist and economist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Here is a selection…
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Here is a brief excerpt from Jason Serafino‘s superb article published by Dental Floss (June 12, 2024). To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. * * * The Fourth of July is packed with backyard…
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The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI Ray Kurzweil Viking/An Imprint of Penguin Random House (June 2024) We are “on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.” I recently re-read Vernon Vinge’s…
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Brilliant Mistakes: Finding Success On the Far Side of Failure Paul J.F. Schoemaker Wharton Digital Press (2012) How and why mistakes “enlarge our range of experience, shrink our ego, and thereby increase the chance of discovery.” The title of this…
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The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World’s Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley Eric Weiner Simon & Schuster (2016) This is one of the books I frequently re-read wholly for pleasure, its insights even more…
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The ideas in some busibess books are even more valuable now than they were when first published. For example…. In A New Way to Think: Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness, Roger Martin shares his thoughts about how to think…
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The Power of Instinct: The New Rules of Persuasion in Business and Life Leslie Zane Public Affairs (June 2024) How and why 95% of decisions are made by the unconscious mind The mind is what the brain does. According to…
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Even in the best of economic times there are rough times. Markets go up and down. Customers come and go. Yesterday the real estate industry was in the dumps. Then it was computer chips. Today oil and gas is down…
Read MoreGreat at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More Morten Hansen Simon & Schuster (January 2018) How and why “seven practices upend conventional thinking about how you should work” Note: Every so often, I recycle a…
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“Transcient Advantage”: A Classic Article from HBR
Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Rita Gunther McGrath and published in Harvard Business Review (June 2013). To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click…
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