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Intuition Pumps: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Norton & Company (2013) Here is a process of natural selection that could (perhaps) help to achieve metacognition With regard to the title, Daniel Dennett observes, “Intuition pumps have been a dominant force in philosophy for centuries. Norton & Company' Dennett W.W.

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Richie Norton on The Power of Starting Something Stupid

Rajesh Setty

It was great way to start the second half of 2013 with a phone conversation with Richie Norton , the author of The Power of Starting Something Stupid. For example, a woman from Mongolia wanted to start a cashmere company and had won the competition a couple years earlier. RS: I am sure people have a lot of stupid ideas.

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CEOs Get Paid Too Much, According to Pretty Much Everyone in the World

Harvard Business Review

It turns out that most people, regardless of nationality or set of beliefs, share similar sentiments about how much CEOs should be paid — and, for the most part, these estimates are markedly lower than the amounts company leaders actually earn. 1) than respondents who “strongly disagreed” (6.7:1; 1; Table 2).

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After Mobility Comes Digital Context

Strategy Driven

Tomorrow everything from the water filter you use to the parking space your company assigns you to park in will be connected via sensors to a vast ecosphere of data. David Norton, PhD is author of Digital Context 2.0: Think on that for a moment. Today there are already more connected devices than there are people. About the Author.

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How Fox News Created the War on Christmas

Harvard Business Review

The now-annual controversy over the “War on Christmas” highlights the difficulties now faced by any company that wants to avoid offense in the run-up to the winter holidays. Gap, Target, The Home Depot, and many other retailers have been criticized in the past.

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