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My latest read – Ahead of the Curve

The title of Philip Delves Broughton’s Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School was interesting enough to jump on my reading list but when I began to see his book mentioned in blogs and on twitter I pulled it from my wish list and dropped it into my cart.  It was not [...]

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My latest read – Our Choice

Al Gore’s latest book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis should be considered by anyone interested in learning how the world can conserve resources with next generation technologies to reduce the globe’s carbon footprint. Its easy to think this book is a political sequel to An Inconvenient Truth. That would be a mistake. [...]

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Switch – Chapter 1 review

Chip and Dan Heath wrote Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die and it was quickly listed as one of the top 100 business books of 2007….I couldn’t agree more.   They launched a website dedicated to the lessons of Made to Stick and continued their book’s conversations online. In mid 2009 it was [...]

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Visualization changes everything

Tags: Visualization, information, Chart Wars, politics, trends

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Microsoft’s Tablet ?

According to the UK Telegraph:  Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer failed to wow the crowds when he opened the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday night. I must admit there was not a lot of excitement from his presentation. Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, Tablet, CES, media player, magazine, trends

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My latest read – One Day in September

After watching Steven Spielberg’s Munich I wanted to learn more about the tragic events of the ‘72 German Olympic Games.  Simon Reeve’s book One Day in September: The Full Story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli Revenge Operation “Wrath of God” is a sad and detailed overview of the events surrounding the [...]

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Fortune: Apple’s next Newton

Fortune’s TechMate segment about Apple’s upcoming tablet (referred to as the next Newton) proves to me that Michael Copeland has absolutely no idea what he is talking about. The TechMate video automatically starts when the page loads — and their embed tag does not permit a video to begin when triggered by the user…..so here is [...]

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My latest read – Triple Cross

My understanding of the events leading up to 9/11 have been shaped by great authors and believe Triple Cross: How bin Laden’s Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI–and Why Patrick Fitzgerald Failed to Stop Him by Peter Lance makes significant contributions to understanding the full breakdown of the US intelligence [...]

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Holiday reading

Holiday reading arrived today via mail. Many selections have been referred in previous books so I started tagging them after realizing more than one book pointed to the following: Cell, The: Inside The 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, Integrity: Good [...]

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SuperFreakonomics’ Authors on GeoEnginnering

University of Chicago Economics Professor Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner about Geoengineering Global Warming Fixes.  Their data about innovation planning shows how important creative thinking can be in addressing global problems.  From their followup best seller Freakonomics called SuperFreakonomics: I really enjoyed what Levitt and Dubner’s research revealed in both books, it was very enjoyable reading.  [...]

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