Month: April 2014

An MBA In Less Than 400 Pages?

April 27, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an interview of Stanley Bing by Lauren Everitt, managing editor, Poets&Quants. To read the complete interview, please click here. * * * Can you really pack a two-year, $250,000-curriculum in a single book? Author…

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Step Up: A book review by Bob Morris

April 27, 2014

Step Up: Lead in Six Moments that Matter Henry Evans and Colm Foster Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2014) How to “step up and demonstrate leadership in important moments, with or without the official title and authority to do so. What Henry…

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How to Simplify Your Life in 5 Minutes a Day

April 26, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Greg McKeown for LinkedIn Pulse. To read the com plere article, check out others, please click here. Photo: Peter Jochems/shutterstock.com * * * The situation for many of us is that…

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Why Good Managers Are So Rare

April 26, 2014

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Randall Beck and James Harter for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive…

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Welders Make $150,000? Bring Back Shop Class

April 25, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Josh Mandel for the Wall Street Journal. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Photo: Getty Images * * * In American high…

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Amanda Burden on “How public spaces make cities work”

April 25, 2014

Richard Saul Wurman created the TED conference in 1984 as a onetime event. (As you may already know, TED refers to Technology, Education, and Design.) It became a four-day conference six years later. Chris Anderson purchased TED in 2001. Until…

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The hidden value of organizational health—and how to capture it

April 25, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article co-authored by Aaron De Smet, Bill Schaninger, and Matthew Smith for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. They cite new research suggesting that the performance payoff from organizational health is…

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How to develop a “mastering mindset”

April 24, 2014

In Body of Work: Finding the Thread That Ties Your Story Together, Pamela Slim explains how to develop what she characterizes as a “mastery mind-set,” she observes: “When you focus on mastering your chosen craft, many opportunities open up for…

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David Brooks asks, “Should you live for your résumé … or your eulogy?”

April 24, 2014

Richard Saul Wurman created the TED conference in 1984 as a onetime event. (As you may already know, TED refers to Technology, Education, and Design.) It became a four-day conference six years later. Chris Anderson purchased TED in 2001. Until…

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Q&A with Henry Evans and Colm Foster

April 24, 2014

Here is a portion of an interview of Henry Evans and Colm Foster, co-authors of Step Up: Lead in Six Moments that Matter, published by Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (April 2014). It is featured at their Amazon page. What is a…

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