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Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

If 19th-century urban planners had had access to big data, machine learning techniques, and modern management theory, these tools would not have helped them. Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age inspired Jeff Bezos to create the Kindle ; Sergey Brin mines Stephenson’s even more famous Snow Crash for insights into virtual reality.

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Talking to Yourself (Out Loud) Can Help You Learn

Harvard Business Review

That’s one of the reasons that a tool like mnemonics works. ’” Self-explaining should go into the learning tool kit of workers today, as the economy places new demands on making connections and adopting new insights and skills. Seeing connections helps improve memory.