The way it succeeds is because Quinn sprinkles modern-day analogies to make the past come alive.
There is always a ladder of analogies that takes us from the familiar to the new.
Inexact analogies, all of them, but close enough to fall into the gray zone.
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Perhaps I stretch analogies in comparing Broadway Joe and the upstart AFL to blogging.
To Becher, baseball and Olympic sailing are good analogies for thinking differently about business.
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This is simply to say that there are limits to the historical analogies and their applicability.
We re-present the universe through analogies that make social, technological, and medical accomplishments possible.
He is also fond of ambitious analogies and, at times, can make simple arguments almost willfully obscure.
Reporters, however, are often reluctant to create their own analogies as they may seem to be too opinionated.
Now quite what you use as analogies from the business world to those three is up to you.
But here's the good news: We're essentially on the five-yard line -- for those who like football analogies.
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As the increasingly diminishing effect of analogies to Hitler suggests, over time overstatement usually undermines rather than advances argument.
Hofstadter and Sander analyze analogies in many domains, including literature, politics and science.
Investors like analogies, and they tend to have a warped sense of history.
While the situations are fictitious, each is constructed so that students can see analogies with their day-to-day work challenges.
He is a lively writer with a deft eye for catchy historical analogies.
To this day, the connection between them remains unclear, which makes it difficult to draw lessons or analogies from them.
Anachronistic analogies with modern personalities and events also blemish Mr Wilson's account, and his women tend to be cardboard characters.
Perhaps as a result of time at the General Motors Institute, he is wont to sprinkle his explanations with automotive analogies.
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Many of us use sport analogies to express some business concept in a way that others might understand it more easily.
To switch from fire metaphors to baseball analogies, the GOP thinks the only way to play the game is with Long Ball.
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Ken Cukier recently wrote about how useful analogies from the past are in explaining the potential of the current data revolution.
Often colorful, humorous and opinionated, analogies can also be quite attention grabbing.
Sports analogies, although perhaps overused, are extremely relevant and useful in business.
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So in terms of historical analogies, I just want to underscore this is not the United Kingdom and the United States alone.
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As the deadline approached, the negotiation analogies got more and more hysterical.
Not content with seeking earthly equivalents of extraterrestrial oceans, he is looking for analogies with the atmospheres of other planets as well.
Using several simple analogies, he explains a variety of stock market principles.
Some of the best candidates rely on analogies to explain their topics.
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