“And this is invariably how progress happens. It is an interplay between the practical and the theoretical, between top-down and bottom-up, between creativity and discipline, between the small picture and the big picture. The crucial point – and the one…
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Book Report: Black Box Thinking
Tagged with: Abraham Wald, Antifragile, Black Box Thinking, Bounce, Chesley Sullenberger, cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias, Daniel Kahneman, denial, Eleanor Roosevelt, Eric Ries, Esther Duflo, failure, feedback, flow, Francis Bacon, James Dyson, Jim Collins, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Popper, marginal gains, Matthew Syed, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, mitigated language, narrative falacy, pre-mortem, Scared Straight, Success and Luck, The Lean Startup, Unilever, When Prophecy Fails
Posted in Books, Leadership, Management
Posted in Books, Leadership, Management
Book Report: Elements of Wit
“There you are, in a big sales meeting. The client makes a weak joke in your direction and the boss looks your way. Say something. Say anything. Well, not just anything – you need something clever but innocuous, smart enough to…
Tagged with: aphorisms, Benjamin Errett, Boris Johnson, brevity, Cary Grant, charm, chutzpah, compassion, confidence, conversation, cultural literacy, Donald Trump, Dorothy Parker, Dunning-Kruger effect, Elements of Wit, flow, Flynn Effect, Frinkiac, George Clooney, humour, hustle, illusory superiority, intuition, Jay-Z, Lil' Wayne, Mark Twain, Nora Ephron, Oscar Levant, Oscar Wilde, refreshment, resilience, righteousness, romance, Seinfeld, Shakespeare, Steve Martin, Strunk and White, The Simpsons, Winston Churchill, wit
Posted in Books, Everything
Posted in Books, Everything
Book Report: Where Good Ideas Come From
“A series of shared properties and patterns recur again and again in unusually fertile environments. I have distilled them down into seven patterns. The more we embrace these patterns – in our private work habits and hobbies, in our office…
Tagged with: adjacent possible, Benjamin Franklin, commonplace book, Communitech, dreams, error, flow, Great Man Theory, innovation, Isaac Asimov, James Watt, Kitchener, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, NeoNurture, Sigmund Freud, Steven Johnson, Stuart Kauffman, TED, Thomas Jefferson, Waterloo, William James, William Stanley Jevons
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management, Math and Science
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