Students
It was my great privilege yesterday to be a guest lecturer at MIT in Cambridge. My friend Irving Wladawsky-Berger met me at Kendall Square and we walked to Building 4 passing among throngs of students. You could feel the energy of young people in the air — students who are bright, hard working, and on […]
Thinkers 50
Who is the most influential living management thinker? That was the simple question that inspired the original Thinkers 50 in 2001. A lot of hard work and number-crunching later, the answer became the first global ranking of business gurus. So says Stuart Crainer. I first met Stuart ten years or so ago in Europe. He […]
Searching
A friend of mine said that Google has increased everyone’s IQ by 100. Web search — whether it is Google, Yahoo!, Ask.com, or any of the many specialized search engines — have certainly changed our lives. I am continuously surprised at what I can find but today I received an email out of the blue […]
Book Update: 3Q2007
So many great books, so little time! I read a number of blogs to gain information like most of us, but there is no substitute yet for enjoying a hard-cover book. Every once in a while I post a list of books I have been reading. They all have reviews at Amazon that are much […]
IBM Happenings: August 2007
The month of August is slow in many parts of the business world but it seems IBM took no break as the month was filled with a slew of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and strategic alliances. One of the most interesting announcements to me was that IBM had two scientific breakthroughs in the […]