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I have been walking around with a October issue of Fortune in my bag for months. There is a special section in the 10/30/06 edition called Secrets of Greatness. The Q&A with Michael Lewis is what has kept in my bag.
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Aren't you getting tired of all these lists? People's Most Beautiful People. Forbes Richest People.
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Harvard Business Review publishes a list of breakthrough ideas each year. Bob Sutton doesn't think breakthrough is the right word for them, but I think there are a few definitely worth paying attention to this year.
Duncan Watts' piece on Accidental Influentials is going to create interesting discussions with the word of mouth marketing community.
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I love adventure sports (jumping out of planes in Arizona, canyoning paragliding in Switzerland, white water rafting in West Virginia, rock climbing in Colorado [despite my fear of heights]). You can imagine my excitement when I saw that the co-founder of JanSport, Skip Yowell, was publishing a book: The Hippie Guide to Climbing the Corporate Ladder & Other Mountains. <-- That's the cover
Last year at BEA, I picked up an excerpt and got a free JanSport backpack (not a bad deal).
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I just started reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan and I think it is wonderful. The former Wall Street trader writes about outliers in the world (9/11, 1929 Market Crash, etc). He says Black Swans have three characteristics: rarity, extreme impact, and retrospective (though not prospective) predictability.
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