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An 11 Year Old and His Prize-Possession Sneakers – A Great Story & Lesson from Small Data by Martin Lindstrom

First Friday Book Synopsis

Martin Lindstrom is a world traveler, and more importantly, a world-class observer. He travels the world, stays in people’s homes, observing their behaviors, especially… Read More An 11 Year Old and His Prize-Possession Sneakers – A Great Story & Lesson from Small Data by Martin Lindstrom.

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Zig Zag: A book review by Bob Morris

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Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity Keith Sawyer Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) Cutting edge thinking and practical advice on how to follow a path less traveled to breakthrough creativity After introducing eight “powerful, surprisingly simple” steps to creativity, Keith Sawyer observes, “Exceptional creators often zig zag through (..)

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Why Walls Won’t Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide by Michael Dear – Some Thoughts, Lessons, & Takeaways

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Michael Dear has traveled the entire length of the border between the United States and Mexico, partly on a grant from The National Geographic Society. His experience, and plenty of history and reflection, is found in his book Why Walls Won’t Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide (Oxford University Press.

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The Branded Mind: A book review by Bob Morris

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The Branded Mind: What Neuroscience Really Tells Us about the Puzzle of the Brain and the Brand Erik du Plessis , with Nigel Hollis and Graham Page Kogan Page (2011) A travel guide and operations manual for exploration and management of the “Damasian paradigm shift” With assistance contributed by Nigel Hollis and Graham Page, Erik [.]. (..)

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Easy; Convenient; Fast – The Mantra for Every New Step Forward (the latest example comes from Tesla)

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Recently, I heard a higher-up at a travel web-site based company talk about what you… Read More Easy; Convenient; Fast – The Mantra for Every New Step Forward (the latest example comes from Tesla). I remember having to walk across the room to change the channel on the television set. Yep, just 3.

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Thanksgiving: Did you already know?

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He is the author of at least 20 books, including international bestsellers that include The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (1989) Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe (1991) The Penguin Dictionary of Troublesome Words (1984) The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way [.].

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What Seinfeld’s Show made for your iPhone Teaches us about Change, and the Permanence of What is Lasting

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And, the ripple effects may lead to the death of what was dominant, and the rising of the new – and then, repeat, and repeat, and repeat… Chautauqua gave way to Traveling Chautauqua [.]. Innovation, change, the next new, new thing… we never know what it will do with its ripple effects.

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