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The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload Daniel J. Levitin Dutton/The Penguin Group (2014) How to “recapture a sense of order and thereby regain the hours of time wasted by a disorganized mind” Clutter can full…
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Here is a brief excerpt from the first chapter of James K. Galbraith’s most recent book, The End of Normal: The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth, published by Simon and Schuster (September 2014). Whereas Henry Kissinger focuses on…
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Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It Ian Leslie Basic Books (2014) “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” Albert Einstein Strengthening observational skills is a worthy objective. However, if a person…
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In his runaway bestseller, How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens, Benedict Carey observes, “The science of learning is, at bottom, a study of the mental muscle doing the work — the living brain…
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As a founder of BrainTrust, a successful organization that trains and develops sales and marketing professionals, Jeff Bloomfield has given a lot of thought to why customers say yes. In Story-Based Selling: Create, Connect, and Close, Bloomfield says it’s really…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article co-written by Martin Dewhurst and Paul Willmott for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. As artificial intelligence takes hold, they ask, what will it take to be an effective executive?…
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I have just read and will soon review Christian Scudder’s Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking), published by Crown (September 2014). Meanwhile, I thought you would be interested in sharing his thoughts about intriguing subjects such…
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The Innovator’s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer Harvard Business Review Press (2014) How to use the right tools to test, validate, and commercialize new ideas According to Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer,…
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Thomas L. Friedman on the ISIS Crisis
Over the years, I have relied on a few journalists to help me navigate my way through the forces and events that resemble a fog in everyday life, at least in mine. Tom Friedman is one of them. He is…
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