Leonard Mlodinow : The Drunkard’s Walk – How Randomness Rules Our Lives

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A trader named Bob Stovall correctly predicted turns in the stock market for 18 out of 19 calendar years. Was he an investment genius?

You have a group of employees who are mastering their fields but every once in a while you have to provide some ‘correction’. When you try to reward the positive . . . → Read More: Leonard Mlodinow : The Drunkard’s Walk – How Randomness Rules Our Lives

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‘We’ by Steve Yastrow

Steve Yastrow’s book We, The Ideal Customer Relationship, is my favourite book yet on marketing and customer relationships. Reading it both confirmed and transformed my own thinking on business and marketing in an environment where the old rules are changing fast.

I wrote in my piece “What If Your Business Disappeared Tomorrow?” that . . . → Read More: ‘We’ by Steve Yastrow

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What Keeps Managers Awake at Night?

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In Canadian Business, Andrew Wahl reviewed an initiative by Pitney Bowes Canada to create an in-house leadership development program.

The initiative was lead by the president of Pitney Bowes Canada, Deepak Chopra (not the famous author, but sounds like one hell of a leader), and has resulted in a number . . . → Read More: What Keeps Managers Awake at Night?

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David Rendall’s Freak Factory

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David Rendall’s excellent Freak Factory site has a sub-title that reads “Embracing uniqueness by flaunting weakness”. Flaunting is what Rendall and his writing are all about. Instead of trying to balance, compensate, improve, or fix our weaknesses, his thesis is that by celebrating what we suck at, we are also . . . → Read More: David Rendall’s Freak Factory

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Review: Richard Florida : Who’s Your City?

…How the Creative Economy is making where to live the most Important Decision of your Life

Are you living where you should be?

Richard Florida, the author of one of the most important books on the fundamental economic and social shifts we have been going through in the last few decades, 2002′s Rise of the . . . → Read More: Review: Richard Florida : Who’s Your City?

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