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Rating:: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Recommendation: Read if you have an interest in the Manhattan Project This is a biography of James B. Conant, a chemist, president of Harvard, and member of the National Defense Research Committee, which conducted research on military technology during World War II, including radar and the atomic bomb. After the war, he became High Commissioner to Germany. The book covers his life, focusing on his involvement in the Manhattan Project and his work in Germany following the war....

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Recommendation: Read the summary Drawing on his own consulting experience, the author talks through examples of good and bad business strategies he has seen and lays out three “kernels” of a good strategy: A diagnosis: Defines or explains the nature of the challenge; simplifies the complexity of reality by defining critical aspects A guiding policy: The overall approach to cope with or overcome the obstacles identified in the diagnosis A set of coherent actions: Steps that are coordinated with one another to work together in accomplishing the guiding policy I think these are great!...