Month: January 2013

Emily Bennington asks, “Who says it’s a man’s world?”

January 28, 2013

Emily Bennington is holding her breath. Well, not literally, but with a new book coming out this month, she’s certainly feeling the “excited energy” as she calls it. Good thing she knows how to thrive under pressure. Actually, Emily’s latest…

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Lydia Dishman on ” The 5 rules of happy employees”

January 28, 2013

Lydia Dishman notes that, in her book It’s Always Personal: Navigating Emotion in the New Workplace, Anne Kreamer points to recent research from Sigal Barsade of the Wharton School of Business that indicates positive moods prompt “more flexible decision-making and…

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Resonant Leadership: A CD review by Bob Morris

January 28, 2013

Resonant Leadership: Inspiring Others Through Emotional Intelligence Richard Boyatzis More Than Sound (2009) How to renew yourself and connect with others through mindfulness, hope, and compassion As I began to listen to the first of three CDs that comprise this…

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The 3 Power Values

January 28, 2013

The 3 Power Values: How Commitment, Integrity, and Transparency Clear the Roadblocks to Performance David Gebler Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) How to meet the challenge of keeping organizational constants and variables in proper alignment In Leading Change, James O’Toole suggests…

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How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries

January 27, 2013

I know of no other single online source that offers more educational videos of superior quality than does TED, a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds:…

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Daniel Goleman on “How to Find Your Flow”

January 27, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Daniel Goleman and featured by LinkedIn. *      *       * Where we want to be on the Yerkes-Dodson arc is the zone of optimal performance, known as “flow” in the research…

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Victoria Ransom (Wildfire) in “The Corner Office”

January 27, 2013

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 Victoria Ransom, chief executive of…

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The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A book review by Bob Morris

January 26, 2013

The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention William Rosen Random House (2010) Note: In an article written for the Wall Street Journal (January 26, 2013), Bill Gates explains why he thinks this book…

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Mastermind: A book review by Bob Morris

January 26, 2013

Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes Maria Konnikova Viking/The Penguin Group (2013) How the Science of Deduction and Analysis can make sense of “a pink elephant world” Frankly, I have never read another book quite like the one Maria…

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My Favorite Quotations About Women: Part 1

January 26, 2013

o “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt o “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get…

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