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How Anthropic Is Winning the AI Platform Marketing War by Being Less Evil
Anthropic is winning the AI platform marketing war. In the quest to become the dominant category-defining player, OpenAI had the largest lead with ChatGPT. Then...
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These Professors Just Proved the Power of Having a Visual Metaphor for Your Strategy
Strategy comes to life when you can make it visual. That’s probably not news for most of you, but an article from HBR this week dug a...
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The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Exceptional Presenter by Timothy Koegel
A few years ago, I was asked by Georgetown University to teach a course on public speaking. I politely declined but said if they would...
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The Man (and Book) That Might Actually Change the World
What if the greatest problem in the world was a lack of moral ambition among the best and brightest people? As a recent interview with...
Read Now22 2024 May
How To Overhaul Presidential Debates? Stop Pretending it’s a Debate.
This past week both political parties agreed to hold a Presidential debate between President Biden and former President Trump. Many observers are already criticizing it as a...
Read Now30 2022 December
The Most Popular Non-Obvious Stories of 2022 (Based On Reader Feedback)
Based on this combination of quantitative and qualitative data, here is a partial list of some of the most popular stories of the year, based on what my readers shared.
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A Sadly Common Case Study In Leadership Failure
Last year Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa banned the usage of agrochemicals by local farmers in an attempt to become the first country with 100%...
Read Now09 2022 June
Understanding the Woman-Led Backlash Against the “Lean In” Movement
If you are a professional woman, do you identify with this idea of "leaning in" as the right way to build your career, or do you feel that this expectation that it is your responsibility to assert yourself underestimates the cultural and institutional barriers that stand in your way?
Read Now05 2022 June
My Non-Obvious Graduation Advice For Recent Grads
I’m just a few days away from my oldest son graduating from high school, and so I’ve been thinking a lot about graduation advice. A...
Read Now03 2020 November
Four Inspiring Things To Watch on Election Day (Instead of Doomscrolling)
This is not a good day to watch the news. As the votes get cast and counted throughout the United States, it is hard for...
Read Now26 2020 August
8 Things You Can Learn From Both U.S. Political Conventions About Persuasion
Over the past two weeks, I actively watched both the Republican and Democratic Political Conventions and actively ignored the mostly useless commentary from cable news...
Read Now07 2020 August
Why More People Should Skip the Hustle and Take the Paycheck
Hollywood and just about any other creative industry is filled with success stories of people to took big risks to find that “performance of a...
Read Now18 2020 July
5 Ways To Conquer Zoom Fatigue
We are tired of Zoom. It’s not just Zoom, but the idea of being on video all day that is straining our relationship with the...
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