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32 Great Articles From The Past Week

Here are some links to some of the great articles I’ve enjoyed over the past week. As an avid reader and someone who keeps abreast of the latest thinking, I consume vast quantities of information each week from a wide range of carefully curated sources. Now, time permitting, I hope to share some of my personal picks each week via this “Linkfest”. I do hope you enjoy these articles and find some of them useful and interesting.

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A Sister’s Moving Eulogy for Steve Jobs

In this post I want to share with you the most touching of the many tributes I’ve read following Steve Jobs’ sad passing. It was a eulogy written and delivered by his biological sister, Mona Simpson, during his memorial service on October 16, 2011 at the Memorial Church of Stanford University. What can I say about this amazing eulogy? It was one of the most powerful, touching, intimate and heartbreaking pieces I’ve ever read. It is a must-read piece that almost ranks right up there with Steve’s own famous Stanford address […]

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As Apple Beats Microsoft’s Third Quarter Revenues, is its lead already insurmountable?

Several years ago, when the notion was still highly improbable to many, I read that Apple was on a growth trajectory that would likely result in them overtaking Microsoft in 2010. Well that’s now happened, and how! First of all Apple took a commanding 70%+ share of the global music player market, then 92% of [...]

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Innovation is the key

The time to innovate is now. It is widely understood that the current global economic downturn is one of the most severe of the past 100 years, writes Robert Clay of Marketing Wizdom. While some believe that people (and the media) talked the downturn into existence, the realities must still be acknowledged. Major banks and [...]

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Opportunity in adversity: Steve Jobs delivers an inspiring talk

Want to know what makes Apple CEO Steve Jobs tick? Here is a fascinating insight. It was an address he famously gave on June 12, 2005 to a graduating class at Stanford University. This talk greatly inspired me when I first came across it, and still does. At a time when so many businesses and individuals are [...]

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