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Geoffrey Moore on Big Data and RFID: An interview by Bob Morris

December 14, 2014

Geoffrey Moore is an author, speaker, and advisor who splits his consulting time between start-up companies in the Mohr Davidow portfolio and established high-tech enterprises, including Salesforce, Microsoft, Intel, Box, Aruba, Cognizant, and Rackspace most recently. His life’s work has…

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Fee-Based Libraries Were Like Netflix for Books, 200 Years Ago

December 5, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Daniel Akst for The Wall Street Journal. As he explains, all-you-can-read lending services helped democratize reading. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here.…

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The Innovator’s Hypothesis: A book review by Bob Morris

November 10, 2014

The Innovator’s Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More than Good Ideas Michael Schrage The MIT Press (2014) How and why “simple, fast, cheap, smart, lean, and important experiments can supercharge any serious innovation process” As I began to read…

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Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini on “Why and how to build a change platform, not a change program”

November 2, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. They suggest that it’s not you, it’s your company. Management Innovation eXchange co-founders Hamel and Zanini…

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Crazy Is a Compliment: A book review by Bob Morris

October 28, 2014

Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags Linda Rottenberg Portfolio/Penguin “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” Tennyson’s Ulysses Most people are caught up in what James O’Toole so aptly characterizes as…

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Why we need more Gazelles

October 18, 2014

The term “gazelle” refers to the classic entrepreneur of myth and reality, someone who starts a new business venture (or a new way of doing business) and aims for it to explode into a white-hot phenomenon such as Home Depot,…

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Entrepreneur Peter Thiel talks Zero to One

October 10, 2014

Photo: Peter Thiel (left) and Elon Musk, X.Com Corp. chairman and CEO respectively, show the cards they use for what became PayPal in 2000. The initial goal was to create an Internet currency to replace the dollar. Photo: PAUL SAKUMA…

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Dataclysm: A book review by Bob Morris

September 30, 2014

Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking) Christian Rudder Crown (2014) Noah had his flood and it ended. Now we have ours and it will never end. To what does the title of this book refer? According…

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Amazon’s Q&A with Christian Rudder

September 25, 2014

I have just read and will soon review Christian Scudder’s Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking), published by Crown (September 2014). Meanwhile, I thought you would be interested in sharing his thoughts about intriguing subjects such…

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The Tim Ferriss Interview of Peter Thiel

September 19, 2014

“Freedom lies in being bold.” – Robert Frost I am grateful to Tim Ferris for so many reasons, including his published works and his on-going blog. He is a thought leader, to be sure, but also an active participant in…

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