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...been largely ignored by the mainstream media, it is flourishing on the Internet. One of the most popular conspiracy videos online is Loose Change, a 90-min. blizzard of statistics, photographs, documents, eyewitness accounts and expert testimony set to a trippy hip-hop backbeat. It's designed to pick apart, point by point, the conventional narrative of what happened on Sept...
Rapid, consistent innovation, the authors find, arises only from a highly disciplined process. Most executives, they say, don't get that. So, what are the five disciplines? For starters, pick important, not merely interesting problems. Douglas Engelbart, the SRI engineer who invented the computer mouse and hypertext, had his team aim to "make the world a better place by augmenting and extending human intellect." Such outrageous ambition yielded the foundations of personal computing...
...like 6-10, 280-pound baby-Shaq center Sofoklis Schortsanitis - down low, where they were open for easy buckets (Schortsanitis finished with 14 points on 6 of 7 shooting). Without a single NBA player on their roster, the Greeks executed the most basic NBA-type play - the pick and roll - to near-perfection. So here's another one of those questions: Would a pro head coach - who sees the pick and roll in his sleep - have designed a better defense, or adjusted sooner...
...culture, but as one of his colleagues remarked today, he was put on earth to write. And write he did: in his lifetime he produced on the order of 50 books, working every morning, never deviating from a disciplined routine. "A writer must sit down to write every day, pick up his pen and try to write something - anything - on a piece of paper," he once said. (According to legend, when the Swedish ambassador paid him a call to inform him that he'd been awarded the Nobel, Mahfouz's wife refused to disturb him: he was taking his regular...
...March you’ll get to pick the seven people with whom you want to live for the next three years, alienating other friends by exclusion. The process can range from easy and fun to painful and dramatic, but it’ll culminate in the River Run—shots taken at all the river houses to ensure being sent to Eliot—and an anxious morning with your new blockmates...