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The Never-Finished Book: Problems with Perpetual In-Progress Revising

First Friday Book Synopsis

One of the most popular books for our CCN on-site presentations last year was The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains” by Nicholas Carr (New York: Norton, 2010). In that book, he discusses how the Internet tinkers with the brain, reamps its neural circuitry, and reprograms the memory. While the mind [.].

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On Undo's Undue Importance

Harvard Business Review

Back in 1982 Norton Utilities launched its "Unerase" product. It's telling us that software as a service just blinked into being mainstream in 2010. Every few years the same piece of technology gets re-announced, and it's as important as ever. The feature? If we listen to "undo", what is it telling us now?

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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

For example, most in the art world agreed that sculptor Janet Echelman's "Water Sky Garden," created for the speed-skating site at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, was decidedly different. Of course, by itself, sheer novelty doesn't make something creative. Consider " The Balanced Scorecard."

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The Case for Listening to the Maniacs

Harvard Business Review

Norton of Harvard Business School. Because extreme consumers share other consumers’ thoughts but amplify them to the nth degree, they can lead marketers toward breakthroughs, say Jill J. Avery and Michael I. And long lines ?

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Grandiose, Narcissistic, Impulsive E-Personalities — and What They Might Do to the Economy

Harvard Business Review

Is it possible that the Great Recession of 2008-2010 might have something to do with our coming of age as virtual creatures? Norton & Company, 2011). Dr. Aboujaoude is author of the new book Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality (W.

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Grassroots Leadership through Social Power

Coaching Tip

million hours in delays at the crossing in 2010, concludes an upcoming report by the Center for Automotive Research. 1 national infrastructure priority," says Roy Norton, the nation's consul general in Detroit. One-quarter of the truck freight between the U.S. Trucks clocked a cumulative 5.2 This is Canada's No.

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