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Everyone is Reading it - Are You?

Randy Mayeux wrote 1 week ago: Here’s an interesting little piece of insight — a lot of people claim to have read books … more →

Tags: Randy's blog entries, Blink, freakonomics, Good To Great, Hot Flat And Crowded, Never Eat Alone, Outliers, Seth Godin, Seth Godins Blog

Build Your Own Strategic Reading Plan -- or, How Should You Pick Which Business Book(s) to Read?

Randy Mayeux wrote 3 weeks ago: So, I’m sitting in front of my television set.  ”Nothing” is on, and I simply spen … more →

Tags: Randy's blog entries, Malcolm Gladwell, The Long Tail, the tipping point, Good To Great, reality check, Outliers, Talent is Overrated, the opposable mind

The Black Swan: A Question1 comment

elliotross wrote 2 months ago: I just started reading The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Teleb – just a few chapters into the … more →

Tags: Stephen Hawking, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

MARI TERUS MEMBACA

hagemman wrote 2 months ago: Saat Krisis Global ini, bisnis perbukuan pun terkena imbas berupa penurunan pembelian buku. Setidakn … more →

Tags: Fitur, krisis global, Rhenald Kasali, Marketing in crisis, Koran Tempo, Lords of Finance, The Crunch, gramedia, Gradien Meditama

PELUANG BISNIS BUKU KRISIS2 comments

oktawiguna wrote 2 months ago: Mangkuk berisi buah-buahan segar yang tertutup saus salad menemani Hans-Michael Fenderl sarapan di H … more →

Tags: Cerita Buku, Gramedia Pustaka Utama, Gradien Mediatama, penerbit Gramedia Pustaka Utama, Penerbit Gradien Mediatama, bisnis buku, buku bisnis, Hans-Michael Fenderl, frankfurter buchmesse

Q #41: In a business context, what’s a “Black Swan”? Why are they significant?

Bob Morris wrote 2 months ago: In this series, Bob Morris poses a key question and then responds to it with material from one or mo … more →

Tags: Bob's blog entries, Business Books, Outliers, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, impact of highly improbable, Black Swan opportunities, antiknowledge

GUEST COMMENTARY, IRIS ERLINGSDOTTIR - SUSAN BOYLE, 35 YEARS SINGING AS A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH

horiwood wrote 2 months ago: The Chicago Tribune has already posted this Susan Boyle makeover photo montage. Susan Boyle has cau … more →

Tags: Barack Obama, Shakespeare, huffington post, Commentary, Guest Commentary, Susan Boyle, Iceland, Iris Erlingsdottir, Guomundur Einarsson

The Next 100 Years Could Be Better Than This3 comments

Patrick LaForge wrote 3 months ago: I just finished reading “The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century,” by George … more →

Tags: Paper & Ink, anathem, Battlestar Galactica, George Friedman, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Neal Stephenson, Stratfor, The Long Now, The Next 100 Years

Shorter, clearer, with no swan in the pond

xi'an wrote 3 months ago: In the current issue of Significance, there is a four page discussion by Bill Janeway on the current … more →

Tags: Books, statistics, Book Review, Keynes, significance, var

The Black Swan1 comment

aswinindraprastha wrote 3 months ago: The Black Swan Konsep dari buku ini bisa terbaca oleh saya, dan sepertinya tinggal menunggu waktu, p … more →

Tags: Read, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, filosofi dan ekonomi

The O'Hara Factor9 comments

moirafinnie wrote 4 months ago: With St. Patrick’s Day almost upon us, in this, the second of my attempts to honor women in fi … more →

Tags: Actors, Classic Films, directors, Drama, Icons, Westerns, Women in the Film Industry, against all flags, Douglas Fairbanks

The Black Swan Drum

madhouselarry wrote 4 months ago: The Black Swan is a new percussion instrument invented by Mike Meadows, percussionist for the Americ … more →

Tags: Logo, Design, the mad house, black swan, drum, Percussion, porterdavis, mike meadows, eric holland

Quantifying the Unquantifiable102 comments

dakinikat wrote 4 months ago: I found this neat article on 13 tipping points by Market Watch’s Paul Farrell.  I managed to r … more →

Tags: Barack Obama, Economy, Economic Blogs, The Obama Depression, Recession/Depression 2008, Bad Bank, the tipping point, Malcolm Gladwell, paul farrell

Good size swans and turkeys

xi'an wrote 4 months ago: In connection with The Black Swan, Nassim Taleb wrote a small essay called The Fourth Quadrant on T … more →

Tags: Books, statistics, Extremes, prediction, tails, pareto

"What are you reading right now?"2 comments

mikegothard wrote 5 months ago: One of the questions I am asked most frequently is, “What are you reading right now?”  The truth is … more →

Tags: Books, inklings, Reading, leadership, Bill Hybels, axiom, Wonderful Tonight, Miss American Pie, blackbeard

Roubini and Taleb on Nationalizing Banks1 comment

Les Stewart wrote 5 months ago: Anyone that throws cash at a franchise now (starts, renews), has lost their mind. Please note: No … more →

Tags: bankers, media, nouriel roubini, Nassim Taleb, Paul Krugman, CNBC

Dr. Doom & Black Swan: You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet

nyccto wrote 5 months ago: CNBC anchors asking the stupidest questions imaginable in the following interview w/ Roubini (my for … more →

Tags: Roubini, rgemonitor, Economy

Lessons from Nassim Taleb1 comment

greenewable wrote 5 months ago: Two years ago most people had never heard of Nassim Taleb or his mentor Benoit Mandelbrot.  Today ju … more →

Tags: Article, Economics, Markets, Auction, Benoît Mandelbrot, Bloomberg, Commodities, Eric Sprott, Failure

Narrative Fallacies Are Kind of Like Porn1 comment

greenewable wrote 5 months ago: In his book The Black Swan, Nassim Taleb heavily references the narrative fallacy which represents t … more →

Tags: Economics, Humor, Article, Commentary, Nassim Taleb, Inflation, Bloomberg, GDP, earnings


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