by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Jun 3, 2019
Brooks Koepka dominates professional golf at the moment. On May 19, he won the PGA Championship, his fourth major win in the last 23 months. He has started eight major tournaments and has won 50 percent of them. Dominance might be an understatement. Commentators who...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Jun 3, 2019
Apple CEO Tim Cook has a reputation for being an operations genius. He has a reputation for keeping an almost super-human work schedule. But comparisons to his former boss, Steve Jobs, have kept him from earning a reputation as a great public speaker. That’s...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | May 28, 2019
Jeff Bezos dislikes PowerPoint. For executive meetings, Bezos prefers six-page “narratively-structured memos” with stories and sentences. In other words, no bullet points. How, then, would the Amazon founder deliver a presentation about his latest big...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | May 24, 2019
At the 2019 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Meeting, Warren Buffett and his investing partner, Charlie Munger, spent hours answering questions that would have tested anyone’s mental energy. The fact that Buffett is 88 years old and Munger is 95 made the event...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | May 24, 2019
The secret weapon that helped the Allied powers win World War II nearly didn’t see the light of day. The U.S. Navy had the tool in its possession for eighteen years and didn’t even know it. The weapon was radar. In 1922, two engineers—including the Navy’s senior radio...
