SubscribeTurns out I’m not the only one who has done some research on what happened at Montana Power Company. Montana PBS ran a special called Power Brokers all about the scandalous downfall at Montana Power, the same subject of my thesis: thewholethesis(12-18-04) at Brown (bibliography and appendix available by email until I post them). It’s on [...]
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Turns Out, I Really Like Teaching
I’ve been really luck y the last couple of weeks to have the opportunity to teach in a few different places. The most recent was this Tuesday when I offered a social media marketing workshop at the Leeds School of Business. This one made me a little nervous, attendance was entirely voluntary, and I was [...]
What Matters Now: One Sweet Ebook
In a nutshell, all these interesting people together and each wrote a page in ebook. Then they distributed it for free. You can download it here. This is a representation of the interesting people, in case you’re not already curious:
E-Book Prices: Irrational Expectations Alive and Well
Dear Publishing Companies: Your industry is dying, but you are still in denial. Let me help you. The cost of making and distributing an e-book is something small for the first one and BASICALLY NOTHING for every one after that. In economics, we say the marginal cost is zero. You can’t reasonably expect people to [...]
Anticipatory Note: Advanced Copy of Switch
I got the best email in my inbox today. The Heaths are sending me a copy of their new book!: “Hi Julie, congrats, you are going to be receiving a free advance copy of our next book, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard…. Expect to see it in 2-3 weeks — and [...]
Book Review: The Nine
I tend to pick up books to read in one of two way: either I pick them randomly off the shelf at a bookstore (rare, but it happens), or I hear about a book from more than one person. I picked up my most recent book, The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin after a friend recommended [...]
Book Review: Undaunted Courage
This book has been on my list for a long time. This 500 page recount of the Lewis & Clark expedition was worth it. Anyone who grows up in Montana has heard plenty about the team of explorers (they spent covered more miles in Montana than any other state), but this book put the adventure [...]
Book Review: Complications, a Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science
I picked this book from my roommate’s shelf (she works in the ER). I found this surgeon’s take on the world of medicine a fresh perspective on how human “the practice” really is. While steeped in science and grounded in logic, medicine is still an incredibly human endeavor; an art really. This book steps inside [...]
MicroTrends: Book that is Blowing Me Away
I picked this book off the recommended shelf at the Boulder Bookstore (one of the MANY reasons I continue to shop for my books there). It has been a mind blow from page 1. I you are in public policy, politics, marketing, B2C or anything where trends matter, you HAVE to read this book. Unlike [...]
Book Review: Presentation Zen
A friend of mine who always has good advice recommended this book to me called Presentation Zen. It’s all about designing better powerpoint presentations, something we wish everyone had to read and implement. I wish someone had dropped this on my desk years ago. It’s not that my powerpoint was bad, it’s that we aren’t [...]
Book Review: This is Your Brain on Music
This post is rather overdue, but I thought I would catch up over the summer. I read an amazing book over winter break called This is Your Brain on Music. It’s all about why music stimulates our brain and thus why it has become such an integral part of society, or at least, that’s the [...]
Fred Kahn is the Man
It’s not everyday that I get to talk about Joseph Schumpeter, the misguided Montana Power Company, and the divestiture of Ma Bell all in the same breath. Yesterday was just such a day. Silicon Flatirons held a conference on deregulation with panels discussing deregulation in different industries including telecom, public utility, and airline. To cap [...]
How We Read Online
There was an interesting article recently in Slate titled, “How We Read Online,” referred to me my partner in crime back east. I disagree with the comments about blogs, obviously, but I do wonder how “we” (the collective we) will switch to paperless in areas where “we” have almost always had hardcopy. Amazon’s Kindle is [...]
The Wal-Mart Effect
I just finished reading a fascinating book about Wal-Mart. While I think it would be easy to right a purely critical account of the effects Wal-Mart is having on a local as well as a global scale, I ultimately found the book balanced with positive effects also attributable to the giganto-retailer. I few things took [...]
Books for Entrepreneurs
This is my short list of helpful books I keep on the bookshelf. Some are more technical than others, but all with quality content. Crossing the Chasm, Diffusion of Innovations, Why We Buy, The Black Swan, Good to Great, Made to Stick, Code Name Ginger, The New Business Road Test, Term Sheets & Valuations, Competitive [...]
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