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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Doris Kearns Goodwin‘s latest of several brilliant biographies, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, was recently published by Simon & Schuster. Here is a brief excerpt of an interview of her by NPR’s Steve Inskeep. Roosevelt John F. Johnson S.S.

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MAY 20, 2016

The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future Steve Case Simon & Schuster (April 2016) A compelling personal account of an inclusive and explosive digital revolution from one of those who launched it It was Alvin Toffler who introduced the concept of multiple “waves” of socioeconomic development in his classic work, The Third Wave… (..)

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

The Better Mousetrap: Brand Invention in a Media Democracy Simon Pont Kogan Page (2012) “Reality is a collective hunch.” Lily Tomlin When I noted the subtitle of Simon Pont’s book, “Brand Invention in a Media of Democracy,” I immediately – and incorrectly – assumed that his focus would be on how effective branding can help [.].

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APRIL 21, 2014

The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006). I just finished this wonderful book by Kati Marton. Marton was an NPR and ABC news correspondent, who was widowed twice. Her first marriage was to ABC News anchor Peter Jennings, with whom she had two […].

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OCTOBER 2, 2016

You may remember that two years ago, I presented a synopsis of Simon Sinek‘s best-seller, Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t (New York: Portfolio, 2014) . He is described as an optimist, and touts inspiration as his key deliverable in business.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way Amanda Ripley Simon & Schuster (2013) Valuable lessons to be learned from how school children are educated in Finland, South Korea, and Poland Amanda Ripley shares what she learned while studying pre-collegiate education in three foreign countries: Finland, South Korea, and Poland.

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DECEMBER 3, 2013

In 1969, Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon noted: “Engineering, medicine, business, architecture, and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent — not with how things are, but with they might be — in short, with design.

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MARCH 15, 2014

What an amazing concept that Siri Hustvedt exposes in her new best-seller, The Blazing World (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014). As described in The Wall Street Journal, “to expose sexism, a female artist asks three men to be fronts for her work. The stunt goes terribly awry” (p. The book has only been […].

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Haldeman Jesus Christ Jimmy Carter John Dean John Ehrlichman John Sirica Leon Jaworski National Archives Richard Nixon Rose Mary Woods Sam Ervin Simon and Schuster The Nixon Defense Viking Watergate' Karl''s blog entries Blind Ambition Charles Colson H.R.

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MAY 30, 2016

On Friday, June 3, I present the best-selling book, Sprint: Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016) at the First Friday Book Synopsis at the Park City Club in Dallas. The authors are Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, and Braden Kowitz.

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MAY 29, 2016

On Friday, June 3, I present the best-selling book, Sprint: Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016) at the First Friday Book Synopsis at the Park City Club in Dallas. To obtain information and register, click HERE.

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MAY 16, 2016

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days Jake Knapp with John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz Simon & Schuster (March 2016) Here is a unique methodology “to solve big problems, test new ideas, get more done, and do it faster” With John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz, Jake Knapp explains… Read More Sprint A book review (..)

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OCTOBER 6, 2014

Karl''s blog entries Bob Woodward Carl Bernstein Deep Throat FBI John Dean Mark Felt Simon and Schuster The Nixon Defense The Secret Man Washington Post' Woodward, as you know, met with a character named “Deep Throat” in a parking garage during the Watergate saga.

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MAY 25, 2016

The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future Steve Case Simon & Schuster (April 2016) A compelling personal account of an inclusive and explosive digital revolution from one of those who launched it It was Alvin Toffler who introduced the concept of multiple “waves” of socioeconomic development in his classic work, The Third Wave… (..)

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MARCH 9, 2014

We had a wonderful gathering last Friday for the March First Friday Book Synopsis. Karl Krayer presented his synopsis of The Demographic Cliff: How to Survive and Prosper During the Great Deflation of 2014-2019 by Harry S. One observation he made is that many books like this provide “snapshots” of the current situation, but […].

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JULY 11, 2013

Contagious: Why Things Catch On Jonah Berger Simon & Schuster (2013) “What causes certain products, ideas, and behaviors to be talked about more?” ” That’s what this book is all about…and much more.

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MAY 24, 2012

The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling Free Press/A Division of Simon & Schuster (2012) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” ” That is perhaps what [.].

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JULY 31, 2014

People talking without speaking, People hearing without listening, Paul Simon ——————– Let’s talk about the value of silence. Intentional silence. You, alone with your thoughts.

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APRIL 23, 2013

The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructed World Marina Gorbis Free Press/A Division of Simon & Schuster (2013) How and why “we are infusing more and more of our economic transactions with social connectedness” Why did Marina Gorbis write this book?

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MARCH 15, 2014

I got a Nikon camera I love to take a photograph So Mama, don’t take my Kodachrome away • Paul Simon ——————– For some reason, I keep thinking about […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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MAY 2, 2013

until you understand why In his book Begin with Why, Simon Sinek asserts — and I agree — that individuals as well as organizations must have a crystal clear sense of purpose or [.]. The Power of Why: Breaking Out in a Competitive Marketplace Richard Weylman New Harvest (April 2013) Why you must keep asking “Why?”

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

On Saturday, Scott Simon interviewed Tony Bennett. Here is a great slice of that interview: SIMON: Who do you think you can put into a song in your 80s that you [.]. Everywhere we turn, the message of “simple” screams out at us. And this weekend, I heard and read that message reinforced time and again.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Word of Mouse: 101+ Trends in How We Buy, Sell, Live, Learn, Work, and Play Marc Ostrofsky Simon & Schuster (2013) “The new rule in business: Money doesn’t grow on trees; it grows in databases!”

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MAY 11, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Eli Simon Four-star Marine Gen James Mattis John Dickerson on "Risk: The story of America''s greatest idea" On Her Trail: My Mother [comma] Nancy Dickerson [comma] TV News'' First Woman Star Pete Fasoldt President Barack Obama Slate magazine the band Girlyman Twitter Web start-up Red Beacon'

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

At our November 4 First Friday Book Synopsis, I will present the blockbuster best-seller entitled Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini (Simon & Schuster, 2016). This book has been on the Wall Street Journal business-best selling list for two consecutive weeks.

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DECEMBER 14, 2013

If you like books, I think you will want to browse through this article on the Bloomberg site: Buffett, Slim, Greenspan, Tyson Pick Best Books of 2013 by Simon Kennedy. They asked a bunch of folks – you know, “influencers” – to name their favoirite books of 2013. Here are the opening paragraphs of the […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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JUNE 29, 2016

Start with why” says Simon Sinek. It goes by a lot of names and labels. We need more liberal arts studies, says a panel at the Aspen Institute.

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JUNE 23, 2013

Davenport and Jinho Kim Digital State: How the Internet is Changing Everything Simon Pont, Editor and one of several contributors […]. I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics Thomas H. Davenport'

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Bob''s blog entries "Composers as Gardeners" a "Shame Totem" A Rough Mix: An Edge Conversation with Brian Eno and Jennifer Jacquet Cold Play Edge-Serpentine Gallery collaboration for Hans Ulrich Obrist''s Garden Marathon Fisheries Centre/Department of Mathematics/University of British Columbia John Brockman Paul Simon Talking Heads U2'

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AUGUST 6, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Amanda Ripley Emerson Fellow at the New America FoundationThe Smartest Kids in the World—and How They Got That Way SeongJoon Cho Simon & Schuster South Korea The $4 Million Teacher the Wall-Street Journal' Ripley shares her thoughts about that after a lengthy conversation with Kim […].

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MARCH 7, 2014

Karl''s blog entries A&P ABC Afghanistan Budapest David McCullough Hitler Hungary Jews Kati Marton New York Obama Pakistan Paris: A Love Story Peter Jennings Richard Holbrooke Simon & Schuster The Great Escape UPI'

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Scott Simon had a short piece this morning (September 1, 2012) on NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday: Without A Career, How Do We Know Who We Are? Though it is primarily about how we find and define our identity through our work, this piece reminds us that the world of work is dramatically different than it [.].

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JANUARY 31, 2012

The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together Twyla Tharp Simon & Schuster (2009) “In the end, all collaborations are love stories”…at least the best of them are, and they must be. As is my custom when a new year begins, I recently re-read this book and The Creative Habit while preparing questions for interviews [.].

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MAY 28, 2011

He is the author of is Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries, from Simon & Schuster: Free Press. Peter Sims is an author, speaker, and entrepreneur.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

Scott Simon recently played this interview by Nina Totenberg of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor: For Justice Sotomayor, Books Unlocked Imagination. Just a short post. Listen and read here).

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

Bob''s blog entries American Scientist Bill Gates Bill Joy Blink Bobby Fischer careless reading and simplistic thinking Complexity and the Ten-Thousand-Hour Rule David and Goliath Dimitri Shostakovich Erik Satie Herbert Simon John Hayes Kent Skibstad/AFP/Getty Magnus Carlsen Malcolm Gladwell on "Complexity and the Ten-Thousand-Hour Rule" Niccolò Paganini (..)

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World Tony Wagner Scribner/A Simon & Schuster Imprint (2012) Why and how to nurture the creativity of all children As Tony Wagner explains, “This book is about how we can develop the capacities of many more young people to be creative and entrepreneurial. This [.].

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