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Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui – Billion dollar lessons

Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui – Billion dollar lessons

Major business failures from the past illustrate common pitfalls in business strategy such as overestimating synergies or faulty financial engineering.

Read it for the style more than the depth of insight: too few business books quote Shakespeare and Lord Tennyson.

Joshua  Greene – Moral tribes

Joshua  Greene – Moral tribes

Ethics can be studied as an Empirical science and the evidence supports Utilitarianism.

Inventive and entertaining variations on the Trolley problem are used to identify what drives decision making on ethical dilemmas.

Marc Goodman – Future Crimes

Marc Goodman – Future Crimes

Everything that is connected can be hacked and will be hacked, or – most likely – already has been hacked.

Nice anecdotes, but a bit too much like…

for (threat = 1; threat <10e3; threat++ ){ window.alert( "Watch out for threat number " + threat ); }
Michael Pollan – The omnivore’s dilemma

Michael Pollan – The omnivore’s dilemma

The industrial food chain is not sustainable, nor are any of the available alternatives – at scale.

Highly likable narrative. Actionable outcome limited (apart from baking more sourdough).

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