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The Multiplier Effect: A book review by Bob Morris

October 12, 2013

The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools Liz Wiseman, Lois Allen, and Elise Porter Corwin/A Sage Company (2013) How and why a Multiplier environment — with efficient systems — can unlock human potential In Multipliers: How the Best…

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What’s New in Innovation Education? Jazz, for One Thing

October 12, 2013

Here’s an excerpt from an article by Melissa Korn for the Wall Street Journal in which she explains how and why innovation education is getting innovative at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. Its innovation program looks at how ideas are…

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Urban world: The shifting global business landscape

October 11, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Richard Dobbs, Jaana Remes, Sven Smit, James Manyika, Jonathan Woetzel, and Yaw Agyenim-Boateng, featured online by McKinsey & Company. Emerging markets are changing where and how the world does business. For…

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Gary Klein: An interview by Bob Morris

October 11, 2013

Gary Klein, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist at MacroCognition, LLC. He was instrumental in founding the field of Naturalistic Decision Making. 
He developed a Recognition-Primed Decision (RPD) model to describe how people actually make decisions in natural settings. He also…

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George Saunders’ moving commencement speech at Syracuse University goes viral

October 10, 2013

George Saunders (Class of ’88), professor of English and author of The New York Times best-seller Tenth of December (Random House, 2013), delivered the commencement speech at The College of Arts and Sciences’ undergraduate convocation ceremony on Saturday, May 11,…

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Eat Move Sleep: A book review by Bob Morris

October 10, 2013

Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes Tom Rath Missionday (2013) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle In a previous book, Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements, co-authored…

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11 Brilliant Inventions Made by Mistake

October 10, 2013

In The Innovation Expedition: A Visual Toolkit to Start Innovation (BIS Publishers, Amsterdam 2013), Gijs van Wulfen includes a brief but informative discussion of “accidental accidents.” 1. Columbus: When he first reached land during the first voyage, he thought he had…

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David and Goliath: A book review by Bob Morris

October 9, 2013

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants Malcolm Gladwell Little, Brown and Company (2013) Flawed reasoning skills detract from interesting stories about underdogs I have read and reviewed all of Malcolm Gladwell’s previous books and consider…

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Michael Gould (chief executive of Bloomingdale’s) in “The Corner Office”

October 9, 2013

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 Michael Gould, the chief executive…

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