Several days ago, Prateek Raj retweeted a capsule HBR article by Piero Formica, “Why Innovators Should Study the Rise and Fall of the Venetian Empire”.  Retweeting it myself, I said “This is bad history.  Really, really bad”.  Quite fairly, I was challenged to elaborate by University of Liverpool’s Andrew Smith.  My response took the form … Continue reading Cool Hand Lagoon: On the Misappropriation of Venetian History