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The Story of Purpose: The Path to Creating a Brighter Brand, a Greater Company, and a Lasting Legacy Joey Reiman John S. Wiley & Sons (2013) The importance of caring for a living In a previously published book, Thinking for…
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There is no shortage of business advice about how to get off to a fast start during the New Year. Not so fast. The Roman emperor, Augustus Caesar, is generally credited with offering this advice to his generals: “Festina lente.”…
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In The Economics of Integrity: From Dairy Farmers to Toyota, How Wealth Is Built on Trust & What That Means for Our Future published by harperstudio/HarperCollins, Anna Bernasek provides “a tool kit for creating more integrity anywhere in the economy. When policymakers are thinking about changing health…
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In the Introduction to Crossing the Divide, published by Harvard University Press (2009), Todd L. Pittinsky explains that allophilia is “a term for positive feelings of kinship, comfort, affection, engagement, and enthusiasm concerning members of a group different from one’s…
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Managing Knowledge: Apply the Discoveries of Neuroscience & Understand the Human Factor Barry Evans Code Green Publishing (2011) How and why each of us “should fill each mercurial moment with conscious living, awareness, and experience.” Disclaimer: I have not as…
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Ernest Becker (1924-1974) was a cultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary scientific thinker and writer. He is probably most famous for one of his nine books, Denial of Death, published in 1973 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 (for general non-fiction)…
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The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science Richard Holmes Pantheon Books (2009) A brilliant examination of the Romantic spirit and its “great journey” during the evolution of science While explaining…
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Although Picasso (Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, 1881-1973) was in several respects a dreadful human being, he was nonetheless one of the great artists during the past century and remarkably quotable. These are among my personal favorites: Action is the foundational…
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For years, I have wondered about the origin of what has become an international celebration of the arrival of a new year. So I went surfing and found the material that follows, provided by Wilstar.com to which I am grateful.…
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How cognitive computing works
While exploring the resources at the IBM website, I came upon several videos that you can check out by visiting YouTube. In these videos, IBM’s SyNAPSE team explains the hardware, software and science that form the foundation of their cognitive…
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