Month: March 2015

Dan E. King: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

March 27, 2015

Dan is the founder and principal of CloseReach Consulting and has developed a proprietary growth acceleration model designed for business leaders and senior teams striving to outpace the competition. The model consists of and numerically scores three growth drivers: Strategy…

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Josh Linkner on “Becoming Irresistible”

March 27, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from a recent post by Josh Linkner at his website. To read the complete article, check out others, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * * In just 60 seconds, Taylor…

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Nancy Dubuc (chief executive of A&E Networks) in “The Corner Office”

March 27, 2015

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 Nancy Dubuc, chief executive of…

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The High-Speed Company: A book review by Bob Morris

March 26, 2015

The High-Speed Company: Creating Urgency and Growth in a Nanosecond Culture Jason Jennings with Laurence Haughton Portfolio/Penguin Group (March 2015) How to accelerate personal growth and professional development in almost any organization, whatever its size or nature In one of…

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Dorothy Leonard on “How to Prevent Experts from Hoarding Knowledge”

March 26, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Dorothy Leonard 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 HBR email alerts,…

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Vivek Gupta (C.E.O. of Zensar Technologies) in “The Corner Office”

March 25, 2015

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 Vivek Gupta, C.E.O. of Zensar…

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Do your training efforts drive performance?

March 25, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Richard Benson-Armer, Silke-Susann Otto, and Nick van Dam for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. They observe: “Building organizational capabilities is a top strategic priority, but an inability…

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Why is Erik Larson so special?

March 25, 2015

If I were to compile a list of my ten favorite non-business works of non-fiction, four of then were written by Erik Larson: o Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (1999) o The Devil…

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Is it possible to balance and/or integrate work/life obligations and responsibilities?

March 24, 2015

Opinions continue to be divided — and sometimes sharply divided — with regard to whether or not it is possible to balance and/or integrate a career with a personal life. The discussions are especially lively when the focus is on…

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