Month: July 2012

Analytics on Demand

July 26, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Eugene Burke for Talent Management magazine. To check out all the resources and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and/or Chief Learning Officer magazines published by MedfiaTec, please click here. *     *  …

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How to Drive Turnover Down Among Your Company’s Most Valuable Employees

July 26, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Adrienne Fox for the website of the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM).  To read the complete article, check out other resources, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. *     *    …

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Cloud Surfing: A book review by Bob Morris

July 25, 2012

Cloud Surfing: A New Way to Think About Risk, Innovation, Scale, and Success Thomas M. Koulopoulos Bibliomotion (2012) Why and how hyperconnectivity technologies will help “builders of a brave new future”  In the Introduction, Thomas Koulopoulos asks, what is the “single greatest phenomenon contributing to global growth, prosperity, and…

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What Is Marissa Mayer’s Secret Weapon?

July 25, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Steven Levy for Wired magazine. To read the complete article, check out other resources, and sign up for email alerts, please click here.  *     *      *…

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Managing Right for the First Time: A book review by Bob Morris

July 24, 2012

Managing Right for the First Time: A Field Guide for Doing It Well David C. Baker RockBench Publisging Corporation (2010) All the management basics, well-presented There are no head-snapping revelations in this book, nor does David Baker make any such…

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Ronald M. Shaich (Panera Bread) in “The Corner Office”

July 24, 2012

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Ronald M. Shaich, founder, chairman and co-C.E.O. of Panera Bread.…

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Confronting the Pain of Innovation

July 23, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Michael Schrage and published in Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out all the other resources, sign in or sign up for HBR email alerts, and obtain discount information, please click here.…

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Why your “to-do” list doesn’t work

July 23, 2012

Here is an article written by Dave Johnson for CBS MoneyWatch, the CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the website’s newsletters, please click here. *     *    …

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Vital Voices: A book review by Bob Morris

July 22, 2012

Vital Voices: The Power of Women Leading Change Around the World Alyse Nelson Jossey-Bass (2012) How and why “women’s rights are human rights” and “women’s progress is global progress” for everyone Alyze Nelson wrote the Introduction and then devotes a separate chapter to each of…

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Cathy Choi (Bulbrite) in “The Corner Office”

July 21, 2012

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Cathy Choi, is president of Bulbrite, a lighting maker and…

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