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Category Archives: Book Reviews

25 Jan

3 takeaways from Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

As I’ve written about previously, we established a marketers’ book club on our campus in 2016, where each semester interested staff read a non-marketing book that has marketing implications and then gather at the end of the semester for a...
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9 Jan

3 takeaways from Originals

This past fall semester I started a book club for marketers on our campus, and our first book was Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Wharton professor Adam Grant. Originals is full of unique insights, such as the creative...
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12 Jan

2012 resolution: fewer meetings, fewer bad meetings

I don’t recall the who, what, when, or where.  I just remember the response.  Someone a few months ago asked me what I do at the university, and my eight-year-old daughter quickly piped up, “He just goes to meetings all...
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