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Mike Paton has spent a lifetime learning from and sharing with entrepreneurs. The product of an entrepreneurial household, he cut his teeth in banking before running (or helping run) four small, growing companies. For the last seven years, he’s been…
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James Merlino, MD, has been the Chief Experience Officer of the Cleveland Clinic health system, as well as a practicing staff colorectal surgeon in the Digestive Disease Institute. He is the founder and current president of the Association for Patient…
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James Merlino, MD, has been the Chief Experience Officer of the Cleveland Clinic health system, as well as a practicing staff colorectal surgeon in the Digestive Disease Institute. He is the founder and current president of the Association for Patient…
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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…
Read MoreBenedict J. Carey is a science reporter for The New York Times who focuses on brain and behavior topics. He writes about neuroscience, psychiatry and neurology, as well as everyday psychology. The territory includes the large and the small, memory…
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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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Benedict J. Carey is a science reporter for The New York Times who focuses on brain and behavior topics. He writes about neuroscience, psychiatry and neurology, as well as everyday psychology. The territory includes the large and the small, memory…
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution Walter Isaacson Simon & Schuster (2014) For so many of those involved with collaborative, breakthrough innovations, “Bliss was in that dawn to be alive.” What we…
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The Lenovo Way: Managing a Diverse Global Company for Optimal Performance Gina Qiao and Yolanda Conyers McGraw-Hill (2014) “Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.” Peter Drucker Gina Qiao and Yolanda Conyers have played major roles during…
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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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