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Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World Thomas Cahill Nan A. Talese/Doubleday (2013) A brilliant examination of who and what accelerated the development of western civilization This is Volume VI in Thomas Cahill’s “Hinges of…
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Years ago, I devised a metaphor for business that helps to illustrate two defining characteristics of a healthy organization. Let’s express it in the form of a question: “What would happen around here if [name of employee] were run over…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Douglas L. Wilson for The American Scholar during which he explains why, although a lifelong reader of Shakespeare’s plays, Lincoln had reservations about how they were presented. To read the complete…
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon Brad Stone Little, Brown and Company (2013) How and why “Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started” Disclaimer: Several reviewers (including…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an interview of Moya Greene by Dominic Barton and Robert Nuttall for McKinsey & Company. She is the first woman and first non-Briton to head Royal Mail, the United Kingdom’s state-owned postal service. Greene…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Greg Scoblete for RealClearTechnology, a sister site of RealClearPolitics, and serves as a catch-all source for technology and gadget news and commentary. Every day, RealClearTechnology editors find and select the…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Linda Descano, published by LinkedIn. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. * * * A few weeks ago, I shared insights on hiring as part…
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Here is the introduction to an interview of Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson by Pamela Lyndon of the NPR staff. They co-star in Saving Mr. Banks. To read highlights from the interview and check out other NPR resources, please click…
Read MoreHere is a brief excerpt from an article by Angela Ahrendts, published by LinkedIn. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. * * * As you’ll know from my earlier posts, I firmly believe in…
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Tim Brown on “The Need for More Darwin and Less Newton in Our Approach to Design”
In 1969, Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon noted: “Engineering, medicine, business, architecture, and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent — not with how things are, but with they might be — in short, with design. Every…
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