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The Big Nine: A book review by Bob Morris

March 10, 2019

The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity Amy Webb Public Affairs (March 2019) So many questions: Great peril or great opportunity? Both? Neither? Who decides? As author Shoshana Zuboff explains, The Age of…

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Cal Newport on the power of decluttering

February 15, 2019

In Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Mostly Noisy World,  Cal Newport explains how and why the impact of technological tools on most people’s personal lives “is complicated by the fact that these tools mix harm with benefits.…

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10 Interesting Facts About Steve Jobs

January 30, 2019

Here is an excerpt of an article about Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli’s biography, Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader (2015) that I came upon at the celebritychest5 website. It reveals ten interesting…

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Ken Kocienda on the unique importance of Steve Jobs’s “mission”

September 12, 2018

In Creative Selection, Ken Kocienda takes his reader inside Apple’s design process during “The Golden Age pf Steve Jobs.” He explains how and why, in order to “understand what makes Apple what it is, its essence, you need to understand software.” You also…

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How not to become bogged down when prototyping

September 3, 2018

In Creative Selection, Ken Kocienda takes his reader  inside Apple’s design process during “The Golden Age of Steve Jobs.” He explains how and why, in order to “understand what makes Apple what it is, its essence, you need to understand software.” You also…

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“Seven elements that are essential to Apple’s software success”

August 16, 2018

In Creative Selection, Ken Kocienda takes his reader inside Apple’s design process during “The Golden Age of Steve Jobs.” He explains how and why, in order to “understand what makes Apple what it is, its essence, you need to understand software.” He identifies…

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Ruth Handler (1945): One of 10 female pioneers whose innovations inspire

March 3, 2018

It may come as a surprise to you that, from the computer to an ice-cream maker, some of the most important discoveries and inventions by women. We’ve all heard of famous inventors such as Thomas Jefferson (Monticello’s Great Clock), Alexander…

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Anne Bahr Thompson on the power of “brand citizenship”: An interview by Bob Morris

January 19, 2018

Anne Bahr Thompson has been inspiring business leaders to use their brands as a motivating force for change for many years. At the start of the Millennium, she began to identify how people’s connections to companies were turning upside down, before…

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Built for Growth: A book review by Bob Morris

June 10, 2017

Built for Growth: How Builder Personality Shapes Your Business, Your Team, and Your Ability to Win Chris Kuenne and John Danner Harvard Business Review Press (June 2017) If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go…

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METASKILLS: A book review by Bob Morris

June 8, 2017

METASKILLS: Five Talents for the Robotic Age Marty Neumeier New Riders (2012) J. H. Flavell was probably the first to use the term metacognition when suggesting that it “refers to one’s knowledge concerning one’s own cognitive processes or anything related…

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