CEO Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The result - I got 27 books read. Good book - good studies on what works and what people want. A self published book (so I found typos). Interesting book. Good book by an MD who works in the system. I am thinking I need to write a business book that rhymes. Good refresher since much of it is intuitive.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

While the metaverse sprang to public attention with the renaming of Facebook earlier this year, the phrase was coined back in 1996 in Neal Stephenson’s book Snow Crash, in which the science fiction author described an immersive version of the internet that was accessed via virtual reality.

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Building Personal Strength

MAY 5, 2013

So far, the two most helpful books have been Crossroads: The Quest for Contemporary Rites of Passage , ed. Louise Carus Mahdi, et al (1996); and From Boys to Men: Spiritual Rites of Passage in an Indulgent Age , by Bret Stephenson (2006). I''ve been reading about traditional and modern rites of passage.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

As the barrier dissolves between political and commercial power structures, the book raises questions about large multinationals whose budgets are bigger than small countries’ and CEOs who have growing roles as statespeople. William Gibson famously coined the term “cyberspace” in his 1984 masterpiece Neuromancer.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2012

Then there's another view, which I heard from author Neal Stephenson in an MIT lecture hall last week. Stephenson was clearly trying to be provocative. Stephenson was clearly trying to be provocative. Then the Internet happened and everything got put on hold for a generation.".

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

As Jeffry Frieden’s book Global Capitalism recounts, under the fascist economic order the government, directly or through state-owned holding companies, largely controlled the economy. Let’s consider the third cycle (1940s–late 1970s), in many ways the golden era of antitrust action. At one point during WWII, the U.S.

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