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If Peter Thiel and Garry Kasparov Are Right About the Innovation Crisis, Then We’re In Trouble

January 17, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Kenneth Rogoff and featured in an issue of BusinessInsider. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * CAMBRIDGE – As one year of sluggish growth spills into…

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Three Secrets to Make a Message Go Viral

January 17, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Dan and Chip Heath, featured in an issue of Fast Company a few years ago. As you’ll see, it has timeless relevance. To read the complete article, please click here. *…

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101 Design Methods: A book review by Bob Morris

January 16, 2013

101 Design Methods: A Structured Approach for Driving Innovation in Your Organization Vijay Kumar John Wiley & Sons (2013) “If innovation is so important, why aren’t more organizations better at it? Why are innovation failure rates so high?” Vijay Kumar…

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Quotations of Timeless Relevance

January 16, 2013

o “Enjoy the little things in life, for someday you will realize that they were the big things.” – Source Unknown o “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” – Douglas Adams o…

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William Deresiewicz on “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education”

January 16, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article in The American Scholar written by William Deresiewicz. He asserts that our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers The American Scholar is the…

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Train Your Brain For Success: A book review by Bob Morris

January 15, 2013

Train Your Brain For Success: Read Smarter, Remember More, and Break Your Own Records Roger Seip John Wiley & Sons (2012) How to increase personal growth and professional development with accelerated learning to achieve “record-breaking” results” Roger Seip is not…

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb on “Seven Rules of Antifragility (Convexity) in Research”

January 15, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and featured by the website of Edge.org, a nonprofit private operating foundation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Copyright © 2012 By Edge Foundation, Inc. All…

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How to get a good spin with “The Wheel of Retailing”

January 15, 2013

Remarkably few business executives are familiar with Malcolm McNair’s name, much less with his books and articles, and that’s a shame because he was one of the most influential business thinkers in the 20th century. One of his most important…

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Mark W. Schaefer: An interview by Bob Morris

January 15, 2013
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Leadership lessons to be learned from a brilliant symphony conductor

January 14, 2013

  Roger Nierenberg is a highly successful conductor who has performed with some of the most distinguished orchestras in America and Europe. Through his interactive program, The Music Paradigm, he has taught hundreds of top companies around the world how…

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