In his book Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread, Alex Pentland, sets his sights on, among other things, “entire cities” as targets for solutions based on Big Data. Pentland defines Social Physics this way: “social physics seeks to understand how the flow of ideas and

Back when I was managing software development, there was a phrase I used to use when project deadlines were approaching: “Turn it up a notch!” Needless to say, that did not always go over well with the developers. There are always going to be projects

Perspective is a fascinating concept. If you’ve had the good fortune to visit the Taj Mahal, you may have a picture of yourself appearing to hold the amazing white marble structure by its finial as if it were a small toy, a perspective distorting feat

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The National Investment Company Services Association (NICSA) will have its 32nd Annual Conference this February. The conference has been rebranded as a Strategic Leadership Forum with the topic centering on Globalization. (Officially – and redundantly – it is: “Managing the Investment Firm in a Global