Lifelong Learning Records
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The Great Palace Mosaic Museum – Istanbul, Turkey
This is another Museum we visited in Istanbul, Turkey, over Summer 2022. Some highlights, out of the information presented in the museum, and photos are outlined below:
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Book Review: Back to Basics. Data Analysis – From Preparing and Scrubbing Your Data to Using Data Visualization Design
The book is written by Lillian Pierson, Meta S. Brown and Paul McFredies. I decided to go through this book to see if it would present additional and useful ways to address the data analysis broader vision under a business perspective, which is what I teach for the Master’s in Business and Master’s in Management…
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Morgan Library and Museum – NYC
I had a chance to visit the Morgan Library and Museum during a May 2022 trip to New York. As presented in its website, this is a museum and independent research library that began as the personal library of financier, collector, and cultural benefactor Pierpont Morgan. As early as 1890 Morgan had begun to assemble…
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Book Review – The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch
This book was written by Randy Pausch, a computer science professor that was asked to deliver a talk titled ‘The Last Lecture.’ While a lot of university professors give this kind of talks where they are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them, this was a very special…
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The Musical Instruments Museum – United States and Canada section. Scottsdale – AZ
We decided to visit the Musical Instruments Museum (MIM) again in late April 2023, before our yearly membership would be over. As shared in my previous blog posts about this museum and presented in its website, the MIM began with a vision to create a musical instrument museum that would be truly global, which I…
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Book Review: Viajar por la Vida
Este libro fue escrito por Gaby Perez Islas, quien es Licenciada en Literatura Latinoamericana con estudios a nivel maestría en Tanatología. Tiene diplomados en Logoterapia, Codependencia y Suicidología. Tomé la decisión de leer este libro ya que mi madre, después de la muerte de mi padre, empezó a leer algunas de sus obras como parte…
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The Musical Instruments Museum (MIM) – European Section. Scottsdale – AZ
After getting the annual membership in June 2022, we decided to visit the Musical Instruments Museum (MIM) again in early January. As shared in my previous blog post about this museum and presented in its website, the MIM began with a vision to create a musical instrument museum that would be truly global, which I…
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Book Review: What Millennials Want From Work – How to Maximize Engagement in Today’s Workforce
This book is written by Jeenifer J. Deal and Alec Levenson, who are part of the Center for Creative Leadership and the Center for Effective Organizations, respectively. I bought this book during a visit I made to the Center for Creative Leadership in North Carolina in 2017 and, while I read it back then, I…
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Casa Grande Ruins National Monument – Casa Grande, AZ
These ruins are located around a one hour drive from Phoenix. We visited this place in March 2023 and spent about two hours there. Highlights on information about these ruins which captured my attention, as well as some photos I took while visiting it, are presented below:
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Book Review: HBR’s 10 Must Reads – On Lifelong Learning
This book is part of Harvard Business Review’s (HBR) series and presents a collection of articles on lifelong learning. The ten main takeaways I got out of them are presented below: 1. Learning to Learn. Organizations today are in constant flux. Industries are consolidating, new business models are emerging, new technologies are being developed, and…
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The Musical Instruments Museum (MIM) – Special Exhibition (Treasures): Asia and Latin America sections. Scottsdale – AZ
After almost ten months living in the Phoenix area, my wife and I had a chance to visit the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM). As presented in its website, MIM began with a vision to create a musical instrument museum that would be truly global, which I think they have really accomplished. MIM’s founder Bob Ulrich…
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Book Review: Competing in the Age of AI – Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World
The book, written by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani, shows how reinventing a firm around data, analytics and AI removes traditional constraints on scale, scope, and learning that have restricted business growth for hundreds of years. From Airbnb to Ant Financial, Microsoft to Amazon, their research shows how Al-driven processes are vastly more scalable…
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Pueblo Grande Museum and Archeological Park – Phoenix, AZ
My wife and I took advantage of a weekend at home to visit Pueblo Grande Museum and Archeological Park, where we spent around three hours. Located in Phoenix, Arizona, Pueblo Grande is an archaeological site once inhabited by the Hohokam culture. It is also a National Historic Landmark and part of the City of Phoenix…
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The Matrix y el Aprendizaje en la Era Digital
Una de mis sagas favoritas es Matrix, cuya primera parte se presentó hace poco más de veinte años y cuya cuarta película (The Matrix Resurrections) está disponible desde este 22 de Diciembre en salas. Entre mis escenas preferidas está la que se define en diversos medios como “Instant ‘Matrix’-like learning“. En ella, el personaje principal Neo adquiere…
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Book Review: Run For Your Life – How to Run, Walk, and Move Without Pain or Injury and Achieve a Sense of Well-Being and Joy
The book is written by Mark Cucuzella, M. D., creator of the U.S. Air Force Efficient Running Program. The content of the book is the result of more than three decades of study, practice, and science that the author shows in clearly illustrated (170 photographs and charts) and accessible text. He explains how easy it…
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The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, CA.
My wife and I spent the weekend in LA and decided to visit the J. Paul Getty Museum. We were impressed not only by its exhibitions, but by its architecture, gardens and stunning views. As stated in its website, the J. Paul Getty Museum seeks to “inspire curiosity about, and enjoyment and understanding of, the…
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Book Review: Atomic Habits – Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results
The book is written by James Clear, who is an author and speaker focused on habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Time, and Entrepreneur, among others. I read this book right after it was published back in 2018, but had a chance to put together this review…
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Desert Botanical Garden – Phoenix, AZ
The Desert Botanical Garden, which we visited in early April 2023 after several friends recommended to visit it during the Spring season, is one of the landmarks of the Phoenix Valley. It is home to thousands of species of cacti, trees and flowers from all around the world. Its brightly colored plants sharply contrast the…
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Book Review: Hire with your Head – Using Performance-Based Hiring to Build Great Teams
The book is written by Lou Adler and, while it was published back in 2007, presents valuable insights to identify and attract talent which are relevant nowadays. I went through this book after I joined Arizona State University’s Learning Enterprise in August 2021, since it is one of the core references used within our leadership…
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Cadillac Ranch – Amarillo, Texas
We had a chance to stop by Cadillac Ranch, located in Amarillo Texas, during a long roadtrip while moving from Chicago to Phoenix. We stopped in Amarillo to meet some good friends that live there and visited it on our way out. Standing along Route 66 west of Amarillo, Cadillac Ranch was invented and built…
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Book Review: The Advantage – Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business
The book is written by Patrick Lencioni. I read this book back in 2014 but did not take the time to write a review about it. I jumped again into it this August since it is one of the core references used within Arizona State University’s Learning Enterprise, which I just joined. So the lines…
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Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
During our late September roadtrip to relocate from Chicago to Phoenix, we made a quick stop at Cahokia Mounds. This is a place I had in my bucket list long time ago since it presents the remains of the most sophisticated prehistoric native civilization north of Mexico. Within its 2,200-acre tract, located a few miles…
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Book Review: The Startup Way – How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture & Drive Long-Term Growth
The book is written by Eric Ries, who is also the author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup. He is also the creator ofthe Lean Startup methodology, which has become a global movement in business, practiced by individuals and companies around the world. He has founded anumber of startups, including IMVU, where…
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The Ruins of the XII Century Temple – Turov, Belarus
We visited Turov during a weekend roadtrip we did over a Summer 2022 stay in Belarus. Turov is one of the most ancient towns of Belarus, which is why I was very interested in visiting it. Turov was mentioned in the well-known work “The Tale of Bygone Years” in 980. There is an opinion that…
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Book Review: Memorial de Isla Negra – Pablo Neruda
This is a great book written by Pablo Neruda and which I read years ago while being in high school. I also had a chance to visit Pablo Neruda’s house in Isla Negra while leading a consulting project for the Ministry of Tourism of Chile back in 2011, which motivated me to read it again…
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Museum of Nature – Turov, Belarus
We visited this museum during Summer 2022, while going on a roadtrip during our stay in Belarus. The Museum of Nature in Turov was founded in 1998 and, as presented at its entrance, was created to show the beauty and greatness of the Polesie landscapes and their biological diversity. The museum not only raises the…
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Book Review: Leading from Anywhere – The Essential Guide to Managing Remote Teams
This book is written by David Burkus, author of four award-winning books and ranked as one of the world’s top business thought leaders by Thinkers 50. He also has a TedTalk that has been viewed over 2 million times. The fifteen main takeaways I got out of this book are outlined below: It’s difficult to…
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Medieval and Renaissance Art, Arms and Armor (1200-1600) – Permanent Exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago
Unlike other galleries at The Art Institute of Chicago that tell the story of European art through a focus on individual artists and national schools, this sequence of spaces of the museum presents the contexts in which works of art would have been seen and used on their time. The first rooms are devoted to…
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Book Review: Stories that Stick – How Storytelling Can Captivate Customers, Influence Audiences, and Transform Your Business
The book is written by Kendra Hall, a keynote speaker and award winning storyteller. She has been published at Entrepreneur.com and Inc.com, and as a contributing editor to Success magazine. She speaks for and works with brands of all sizes to help them harness the power of storytelling. The twelve main takeaways that I got…
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Book Review: Wisdom as a Way of Life – Theravada Buddhism Reimagined
The book represents the last contribution to Buddhist studies and to the intellectual histories of civilizations by Steven Collins (1951-1918). Steve had finished a complete first draft only a few months before his untimely death in February 2018 and had gone as far to circulate the manuscript among a number of close colleagues and friends.…
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