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In April, we begin our 15th year of the First Friday Book Synopsis – with Gary Hamel, What Matters Now & Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here were our first two book choices: • The Circle of Innovation by Tom Peters (Alfred A. The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every [.]. On April 3, 1998, Karl Krayer and I presented our first two books at the first ever First Friday Book Synopsis. Knopf, 1997) – synopsis presented by Randy Mayeux. •

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Why Western Digital Firms Have Failed in China

Harvard Business Review

This study uses two rounds of interviewing to identify what the Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman describes as the “inside view” and the “outside view” of the phenomenon. ineffective innovation strategies. 5 Principles for Innovation in Emerging Markets. failure to fully embed operations in China.

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An Exercise to Get Your Team Thinking Differently About the Future

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow , observed that decision makers get stuck in a memory loop and can only predict the future as a reflection of the past. Crowd sourcing will become a fundamental R&D engine.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

It feels like it’s got a little bit of Kahneman and Tversky in it. He draws on an engineering literature called robust optimal control. Suppose you’re an engineer and you’re building a bridge. So what you might do as an engineer is try to build your bridge to be safe in a worst case.

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