Month: January 2017

Don’t Make Your Stressed-Out Colleague More Stressed Out

January 31, 2017

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * When we see a coworker at their limit, we want…

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Henry Chesbrough on “Open Innovation”

January 31, 2017

Henry Chesbrough is an American organizational theorist, adjunct professor and the executive director of the Harwood Center for Corporate Innovation at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his work on…

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Why “1984” Is a 2017 Must-Read

January 30, 2017

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Michio Kakutani featured in The New York Times (January 26, 2017), one of the media sources reviled daily by the current occupant of the Oval Office. To read the complete article…

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Leading a corporate transformation

January 30, 2017

There are valuable lessons to be learned about leading a corporate transformation from an executive who has done so three times in the past dozen years. Here is a brief excerpt from an interview of Davor Tomašković for the McKinsey…

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Peter Drucker on “What Makes an Effective Executive”

January 29, 2017

In the 50th anniversary edition of The Effective Executive, Peter Drucker shares his thoughts about what makes an executive effective. As he explains, “An effective executive does [begin] not [end] need to be a leader in the sense what the…

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An Extraordinary Mind: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

January 29, 2017

In Extraordinary Minds, Howard Gardner provides portraits of four “exceptional individuals and an examination of our own extraordinariness.” More specifically, he shares his thoughts about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, and Mohandas Ghandi. He suggests three lessons to…

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Orwell’s “1984” and Trump’s America

January 28, 2017

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Adam Gopnik for The New Yorker in which he explains why Donald Trump’s lies, and his urge to tell them, are pure Big Brother crude, however oafish their articulation. To read…

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Five “Key Myths” About a Comfort Zone

January 28, 2017

Some of the most valuable material in Reach: A New Strategy to Help You Step Outside Your Comfort Zone, Rise to the Challenge and Build Confidence is provided in the Chapter Nine when Andy Molinsky shares his thoughts about what…

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Geoffrey Colon on “Disruptive Marketing”: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

January 27, 2017

Geoffrey Colon is the voice at the intersection of marketing, tech, and popular culture. Thinking is his commodity. DJ, data punk, podcaster and author, Geoffrey is a Communications Designer at Microsoft in Redmond, WA, for Microsoft search advertising (Bing Ads).…

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Igor Stravinsky: Anatomy of Creativity

January 27, 2017

Creating Minds is one of the most enjoyable as well as one of the most informative books I have ever read. Recently, I re-read it and enjoyed it even more. I have long admired Howard Gardner’s research on multiple intelligences…

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