E-M8 Entrepreneurial Management for Eternal Mission

From December 26th to January 5th I will be in Lugansk, Ukraine. It is likely that I will not blog while I am there, but than again, who knows. Aside from personal reasons for the trip, I will get a chance to meet Professor Kamin, who is one of the TRIZ education experts and an [...]

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Human mind is fascinating. It can precisely solve complex problems and get tripped up by the most basic questions. What do white cows drink? Water, surely.  But I can almost bet your first response was milk.  Being aware of the mind’s eccentricities is very important in both marketing and management. Predictably Irrational,  Nudge: Improving Decisions [...]

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I just enjoyed the previlage of watching The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. The story is awesome, the delivery is superb, but most of all it teaches us the value of a good head fake: when we are directing someone to do something that they may think is fun not because of the intrinsic value [...]

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Sophie’s world starts out reading like a highly summarized survey of philosophy, and it takes until half way in the book for the plot line to really take off. I found the first half hard to read and being only generally correct about the specific subjects of philosophy that it purports to explain.  I was [...]

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Punished by Rewards is by far the best book on motivation that I have ever read. Never mind that it could be one third the length and still make the same point.  It is still an extremely valuable book because it not only challenges current state of events, but does a great job of it.
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