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Biography & Author's Journey

Available publisher biographies do not emphasize John Case’s early life or formal education. What they do show clearly is the making of a business journalist: he became a senior editor and senior writer at Inc. magazine and later served as executive editor of the newsletter division at Harvard Business School Publishing. Those roles anchored a career devoted to explaining management, entrepreneurship, and business economics in accessible prose for practitioners rather than specialists alone. ((https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/john-case/?utm_source=openai))

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It’s the oft-forgotten lesson that innovation depends not just on creative people and companies but also on permission and encouragement from society as a whole
-Innovation, We Trust
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Innovation can often seem well beyond the reach of ordinary businesses
-Ordinary People, Extraordinary Creativity
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You could get to thinking that there’s another business planet out there, dynamic and innovative, inhabited by people who are constantly dreaming up (and patenting) new stuff
-Ordinary People, Extraordinary Creativity
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They don’t have title to their homes or access to credit
-Spotlight: An Economist Fights Terrorism
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But the businesses are outside the regular economy and hence outside the law’s protection
-Spotlight: An Economist Fights Terrorism
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But great workplaces — the kind where applicants line up at the door before you even advertise a position — are defined not so much by wages and working conditions as by feelings, attitudes, and relationships
-It’s a Great Place to Work
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Trust of this sort can’t be bought, either with money or with structural gimmicks
-It’s a Great Place to Work
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The change didn’t involve yet another hotshot management philosophy, only a new tool for making the company run better
-The Knowledge Factory
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The tool — the driving force behind this ongoing metamorphosis — is information
-The Knowledge Factory

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"Publishers Weekly said John Case 'writes with intelligence and flair."

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"Tampa Tribune & Times said John Case 'has outdone himself."

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