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• Can Anyone Find Egypt?

  By Ron Clouse on Dec 5, 2020, 16:15 • ( 0 )

  

  Count us as fans of the UK quiz show, Richard Osman’s House of Games, which we enjoy in part because of the entertainingly insane answers sometimes given by the contestants, as we have written about before. One of the games… Read More ›

• Color Blind No More (Case Master Update III)

  By Ron Clouse on Mar 7, 2020, 22:47 • ( 0 )

  

  When Valentin Nugmanov and I wrote the case “Mind’s Eye,” which revolves around bringing to the market a new lens to help with color blindness, it was meant to be purely fictional. However, since Case Master was published, EnChroma glasses… Read More ›

• Blindingly Dumb (Case Master Update II)

  By Ron Clouse on Mar 7, 2020, 22:47 • ( 1 )

  

  Displaying good mental math skills and clever approaches to estimating make consultants really shine, and in Case Master we provide a number of opportunities to practice both of these. In fact, solving the case “Cosmetic Change” requires nailing down believable… Read More ›

• Blindspots (Case Master Update I)

  By Ron Clouse on Mar 7, 2020, 22:00 • ( 0 )

  

  I ran across this TEDxVienna talk by magician Kyle Eschen entitled “The art of cognitive blindspots,” and it struck me, because discovering one’s “blindspots” is a major feature of Case Master. The key to solving difficult consulting cases is to… Read More ›

• Countdown Poetry: John Cooper Clarke and Nick Helm

  By Ron Clouse on Nov 4, 2019, 20:34 • ( 0 )

  

  If you like letters and numbers, the nearly-40-year-old British game show Countdown is a good way to pass a half an hour. If you like letters, numbers, and bawdy humor, there’s the hybrid version, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does… Read More ›

• New Case Master Landing Page, with Free Stuff

  By Ron Clouse on Jun 23, 2019, 19:32 • ( 0 )

  

  Case Master has been getting some good news from book competitions, and our designer has kindly re-designed the free chapter give-away, so we did a complete overhaul of the book’s landing page, casemasterbook.com. Here is a list of our most recent competition results:… Read More ›

• “Pandora’s Box,” with Hoskyns and Soviet Bureaucrats

  By Ron Clouse on Jan 26, 2019, 15:33 • ( 0 )

  

  The BBC documentary series “Pandora’s Box” is online at YouTube now, uploaded by its producer, Adam Curtis. It first aired in 1992 and contains some fascinating footage from that era. Below are two sets of excerpts from the series. Especially… Read More ›

• New Title: Case Master

  By Ron Clouse on Mar 14, 2018, 10:22 • ( 0 )

  

  I am publishing a new book soon: Case Master: Thoughtful Cases for Competitive Future Consultants. It is a collection of international business cases that can be used by readers of all backgrounds to learn business concepts and see them illustrated… Read More ›

• Queen Elizabeth Feasting in Tonga

  By Ron Clouse on Jul 28, 2017, 23:02 • ( 1 )

  

  In my book Six Nine, Two Ten, I mention Queen Elizabeth II’s 1953 visit to the island of Tonga in the South Pacific to see her friend, Queen Sālote Tupou III. Queen Salote typified the large stature of Tongans (and… Read More ›

• The Strange Ecology of a Book

  By Ron Clouse on Jul 26, 2017, 22:20 • ( 0 )

  

  I’ll start with some very happy news, which is that BioQuip, an old and much-loved biological supply company, is now selling A Basic Glossary of Invertebrate Zoology. I pitched it to them last year, hoping they would list the book among… Read More ›