First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 2, 2015

I just finished Harlan Coben‘s newest novel, The Stranger (Dutton, 2015). Karl''s blog entries Amazon.com Anne Armstrong-Coben M.D. I wish I were more enthusiastic. Always a master mystery storyteller, I have always greatly anticipated the release of each of his books.

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Armstrong Storytelling Blog Books 70

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 11, 2023

Or look at a shorter, more visual chart on doomsday forecasts predicting the end of the world (including revised dates — also wrong) published by The Economist in 2015. One of the classic books about the forecasting fallacy was written by Dan Gardner. Tetlock then correlated their level of fame to the accuracy of their forecast.

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Agility Heskett Armstrong Uncertainty 69

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 28, 2015

I was with Cactus at a remote for Armstrong-Johnson Ford. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Through the remotes, I learned how to feed lines and develop the talent to speak in sound bites, as I do for business media interviews to this day. The out-cue was to describe the 1959 Ford model. All rights reserved.

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Pryor Mentor Learning-by-Doing Audience 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

A 2015 Harvard Business School study showed that CEOs’ schedules typically leave them with as little as 15% of their time for working alone. At AOL, Tim Armstrong has simply instructed executives to spend one-tenth of each working week on reflective thinking. Schedule unstructured thinking time.

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How To CEO Kahneman Armstrong 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

In 2015 and 2016, we witnessed dozens of CEOs speaking up against anti-LGBT laws in a handful of states such as Indiana , Georgia , and North Carolina. For example, Oath/AOL CEO Tim Armstrong tweeted “Hard 2 Believe #charlottesville taking place. Most of these CEOs have been based in the U.S., but many lead global companies.

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CEO Travel Letter Diversity 8