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My TED favorites- The world’s oldest living things: Rachel Sussman on TED.com
- Fellows Friday with Bristol Baughan
- Keep your goals to yourself: Derek Sivers on TED.com
- The technology of the heart: His Holiness the Karmapa on TED.com
- Let the environment guide our development: Johan Rockstrom on TED.com
- Super foods superheroes
- The Happy Planet Index: Nic Marks on TED.com
- New Best of the Web talk: Jeremy Rifkin
- Animal instincts: Saturday TEDTalks playlist
- What physics taught me about marketing: Dan Cobley on TED.com
Tag Archives: research
My latest read – The Big Short
Credit default swaps. Those infamous three words. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis is a fast-paced, right-to-the-point story about CDS and the collapse of Wall Street. While recent best sellers have addressed big players and multiple companies involved in the crash Lewis’s focus is just credit default swaps, how they were [...]
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Tagged billion dollars, bond market, burry, cdos, consumers, credit default swaps, doomsday machine, economic collapse, eisman, financial giants, Goldman, greed, lippmann, michael lewis, research, subprime loans, wall street
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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Tagged banking, BMW, borderless world, broughton, case studies, competing in a flat world, daily telegraph, elite training, flat, flat world, future, Google, harvard business school, harvard commencement, harvard mba, jobs, losing touch, mba candidate, research, singapore, venture capital
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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Tagged brains, business books, business today, community, emotional sides, fundamental research, group, heath brothers, human psychology, made to stick, organization, research
The internet is dead. Long live the internet!
The 2008 Fall Internet2 member meeting last week in New Orleans proved that Big Science is here and I’m not sure the world is prepared to handle LHC’s generated data. The session included an HD video conference to the Large Hadron Collider.
Session Overview:
October 15, 2008, 8:45 AM – 10:00 AM | UTC/GMT -5 hours (CDT)
The [...]
Posted in Design • Education • Globalization • Internet2 • Milwaukee • Network • Streaming • Technology • WiscNet
Tagged 100 gigabit, bandwidth, big science, cern, Education, fiber optic, hd video, Internet2, large hadron collider, lhc, member meeting, Network, network fiber, new orleans, optical, petabyte, research
My latest read – Made to Stick
What book would be a perfect follow up to The Tipping Point and Blink by Malcolm Gladwell? To prove timing is everything I read Dan and Chip Heath’s new release: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. The book’s authors acknowledge that their book complements Gladwell’s The Tipping Point by [...]
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Tagged blink, chip heath, Education, knowledge, made to stick, Reading, research, stanford, TED, tipping point, trends
Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0
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Tagged america, business, change, culture, economy, Education, energy, environment, first solar, flat, global warming, Globalization, Green, green revolution, Innovation, leadership, offshoring, outsourcing, planet earth, Reading, recession, research, revolution, solar, Technology, toledo, tom friedman, trends, wall street