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Here is a brief excerpt from an interview of Tim Ferriss by Ariston Anderson for the website of 99U: Insights on making ideas happen by Bēhance. To read the complete interview, check out other resources, and learn more about 99U,…
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Johnny Carson Henry Bushkin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2013) “Here’s Johnny!” or at least what he was willing to seem Let’s start with a multiple-choice question. According to Henry Bushkin, Johnny Carson (1925-2005) could be (a) Irresistibly charming (b) Distant and…
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Doris Kearns Goodwin‘s latest of several brilliant biographies, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, was recently published by Simon & Schuster. Here is a brief excerpt of an interview of her by…
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In his latest book, The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas, David Burkus dispels ten myths, including The Eureka Myth: “the notion that all creative ideas arrive in a ‘eureka’ moment.” The…
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Alex Osborn (1888-1966) was founding partner of one of the most highly regarded advertising agencies, BBDO, and is credited with introducing the brainstorming process in his book, Applied Imagination: Principles and Procedures of Creative Problem-Solving, published in 1957. His process…
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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 David Cote, chairman and chief…
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For years on this national holiday, I have posted a list of the number of men and women in the military services who were killed during each of the wars in which the United States has been involved. My sources…
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Here is an excerpt from an especially thoughtful article by Juliet Macur for The New York Times during which she provides an update on the background and current status of issues by no means unique to the Miami Dolphins, a…
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When Sparks Fly: Igniting Creativity in Groups Dorothy Leonard-Barton and Walter C. Swap Harvard Business Review Press (2005) How to Activate the Maverick Synapses Note: I read this book many years ago and then composed the review that follows. Books…
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Rewiring the Brain to Eliminate Fear
Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Eugene Rubin, M.D., Ph.D. for Psychology Today during which he explains using a pulse of medication to augment a behavioral therapy. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain…
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