March 29, 2011
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As a new participant in the reading group at UWM’s Division of Student Affairs I found myself engaged in a good book, but for a different arena. Having participated in reading groups both in and out of higher education I’m … Continue reading
January 1, 2011
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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System–and Themselves is clearly my favorite (for all the wrong reasons — you know economy on the brink of collapse) book in … Continue reading
November 6, 2010
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After reading Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die and Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything I have been following the Heath brothers and Don Tapscott’s work online and in the blogosphere. Both have followup books to … Continue reading
October 20, 2010
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I have been looking at The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom as a learning tool for social networks impacting society and found this a very deep read….like a college econ/sociology textbook. Caught myself thinking I … Continue reading
September 29, 2010
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How do organizations compete today? Corporate Agility: A Revolutionary New Model for Competing in a Flat World provides a good reference on how major US companies have adopted a new business model for competing in a flat world. After reading … Continue reading
September 21, 2010
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Meet Nelson, Coupland, and Alice — the faces of tomorrow’s book.
September 12, 2010
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This is not a book about Dan Brown’s character, Robert Langdon and his fight against the Illuminati in Angels & Demons. This is The Numerati, a slight spin on very advanced mathematics and high performance computing, the future of shopping, … Continue reading
August 26, 2010
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Watching this documentary about Daniel Ellsberg reminded me of his rather extraordinary life that has not yet stopped. With the recent WikiLeaks sensation its worth reminding America how powerful documents can change people and governments. I read Ellsberg’s book Secrets: … Continue reading
August 13, 2010
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The movie everyone should have been waiting to see….on your computer before at the cinemas. In an unusual move Freakonomics the Movie is coming to iTunes first on September 3rd and then to a theater on October 1. Since I … Continue reading
August 6, 2010
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Remember the last time you read a great story that you caught yourself peaking at the remaining unread pages because you didn’t want the story to end? That’s how I can best describe Clay Shirky‘s book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and … Continue reading