Having recently reviewed Ellen Forney’s Marbles, I would now like to take up one aspect of another notable graphic memoir, Marjane Satrapi’s The Complete Persepolis (New York: Pantheon, 2003-2004). Persepolis relates the story of Marjane Satrapi, who grew up during the time of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. (The story was made into a feature movie that [...]
“Our audience is like people who like licorice,” Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead once said. “Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.” ”Annals of Obsession: Deadhead–The Afterlife,” by Nick Paumgarten for The New Yorker. One path to marketing success is “licorice,” in Jerry Garcia’s sense. This could [...]
An illustration of Dante’s Inferno by Gustave Doré (1832-1883). Heavy reliance on spreadsheets is a characteristic common to many emerging enterprises. The common element is lack of adequate investment in databases and system integration. The spreadsheet, though a handy tool for a single user working on a defined task, can fall far short [...]
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- Spreadsheet Hell
- Bipolarity and Creativity: A Graphic Memoir Explores the Relationship
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- Are You Nursing Your Sunk Costs?
- Retrospection and Imprisonment
- Endurance Exercise and Brain Health
- Evidence for Compassion in Prehistoric Peoples
- Learned Optimism or Learned Effectiveness?
- Overloaded Circuits--Replacing Anxiety with Effectiveness at Work
- Everything You Should Know about Musical Instruments but Don't Have Time to Learn
- Building Commitment Through Corporate Participation
- Numbers versus Intuition: Ian Ayres' Super Crunchers
- The Wisdom of Crowds, by James Surowiecki
- Ethics: From Theory to Practice
- An Ethic of Action Versus an Ethic of Consequences
- Ethics and Habit
- Rejected New Yorker Cartoons
- Behind Success: Conviction
- Flexibility as an Element of Resilience Building: Lessons from Tao
- Chi Style of Running May Head Off Injuries
- CRM Atrophy: Cause and Cure
- Why Won't Sales Use the CRM? Should Management Give Up?
- "The Power of Kindness," by Piero Ferrucci (review)
- "Midas Touch," by Trump and Kiyosaki (review)
- "Living Life as a Thank You," by Lesowitz and Simmons (review)
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