First Friday Book Synopsis

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The Seventh Sense by Joshua Cooper Ramo – My Five Lessons and Takeaways

First Friday Book Synopsis

Joshua Cooper Ramo, The Seventh Sense ——————– Last Friday at our August First Friday Book Synopsis, I presented my synopsis of the book The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune and Survival in… Read More The Seventh Sense by Joshua Cooper Ramo – My Five Lessons and Takeaways.

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“In our new world, there’s no second place,” writes Joshua Cooper Ramo – It really is Zero to ONE

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“The Great Opportunity” of our age is in the creation and ownership of these winner-take-all platforms… Joshua Cooper Ramo, (author of The Seventh Sense), Fortune, Why ‘Network Power’ Is the Secret of Success for Apple, Facebook and Amazon —————— When I presented my synopsis of Zero to… Read More (..)

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Tiffany Cooper Gueye (Building Educated Leaders for Life, or BELL) in “The Corner Office”

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Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Tiffany Cooper Gueye, chief executive of Building Educated Leaders for Life, or BELL, a nonprofit organization that assists urban children. [.].

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Malcolm Gladwell – He is Interested in Testing and Pressing Against Received Wisdom

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Anderson Cooper: What do you think he’s interested in achieving? Is it that he’s got an opinion and he wants everybody else to agree with it? David Remnick (editor of The New Yorker): Absolutely just the opposite. I think what he’s interested in is testing and pressing against received wisdom, most of the time what […].

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The Seventh Sense, and, Small Data – Our Selections for the August 5 First Friday Book Synopsis

First Friday Book Synopsis

For the August 5 First Friday Book Synopsis, I will present my synopsis of the provocative book The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks by Joshua Cooper Ramo.

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14 CEOs with their Summer Reading Lists – a Chart (from McKinsey)

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Note: the #1 book for the summer is The Seventh Sense by Joshua Cooper Ramo, named by three different CEOs. McKinsey asked 14 CEOs what they will be reading in coming months. I’ve created a chart to peruse the list. No other book was named twice. It is definitely a book worth reading.

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How IDEO brings design to corporate America

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Whittier Professor at Stanford Edison Achievement Award for Innovation Fortune Magazine How IDEO brings design to corporate America National Academy of Engineers National Design Award in Product Design Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum'

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