June 25th, 2009 | 
Bill Taylor’s recent post on Steve Jobs and leadership, “Decoding Steve Jobs: Trust the Art, Not the Artist,” is a must read for emerging leaders or those who aspire to lead. Taylor discusses how Jobs clings to the Great Man Theory of leadership which works well for him as an unusual skilled leader creatively, [...]
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To celebrate my son’s graduation from high school, we decided to spend some time this summer touring baseball parks around the country. While it would be great to align our schedule with that of the Red Sox, practically speaking, it doesn’t make sense. Since teams generally play 3 games in each city they visit, [...] Way back before digital photography, when dinosaurs roamed the surface of the planet, families packed themselves into smoky living rooms to watch trays full of color slides projected onto uneven plastered walls. These photo viewing sessions along with some of the most outstanding print photography in history were brought to you by Kodachome, Kodak’s [...] My good friend Dave just sent me an article from Wired magazine, “MIT Hopes to Exorcise ‘Phantom’ Traffic Jams,” about research going on at MIT in mathematically modeling randomly occurring traffic jams to discover their source as well as potential remedies. Since I’m not a mathematician, I developed a somewhat less scientific theory as [...] When it comes to my data, I’m a suspenders and belt kinda’ guy. It can’t be in too many places or have too many layers of security. As with investing one’s hard-earned cash, diversification is critical to success. As such, I have loads of internal backup and security methods that are part of my [...] The Pan-Massachusetts Challenge (PMC) is a charitable, 2-day bike ride across the state of Massachusetts that raises money for cancer research and treatment at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through its Jimmy Fund. The ride was the first fundraising bike-a-thon in the country, starting in 1980. Since then, over 50,000 riders and 30,000 support volunteers [...] Mercedes has always been a leading innovator of safety gizmos that help pull your vehicular ass out of the frying pan when things go terribly, terribly wrong. Every once in a while, they show off what’s next in preventing your insides from becoming your outsides in an auto accident with a marketing-oriented test vehicle. [...] When I was a little kid, there was a company that produced sneakers called PF Flyers. They advertised that they made you run faster and jump higher. They did. I proved it every time I got a new pair. It’s a good thing Michael Jordan wasn’t born yet, because I would have [...] |
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