James Allworth

HBR Guide to Crafting Your Purpose

January 22, 2022

HBR Guide to Crafting Your Purpose John Coleman Harvard Business Review Press (January 2022) How to craft a life and a career guided, informed, and enriched by purpose This one of very few single-author volumes in HBR Guide to…. series,…

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Thinkers50 Future Thinkers: A book review by Bob Morris

May 29, 2015

Thinkers50 Future Thinkers: New Thinking on Leadership, Strategy and Innovation for the 21st Century Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove McGraw-Hill Education (2014) What will probably be the greatest challenges for business leaders in years to come? This is one of…

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Clayton Christensen on “The Discipline of Managing Disruption”

May 1, 2013

To Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life?, a primary task of leadership is asking questions that anticipate great challenges. Here is a brief excerpt from an interview conducted by Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine,…

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Who is Ernest Becker and what is his relevance to today’s business world?

January 1, 2013

Ernest Becker (1924-1974) was a cultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary scientific thinker and writer. He is probably most famous for one of his nine books, Denial of Death, published in 1973 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 (for general non-fiction)…

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How to Get Into the Zone

June 22, 2012

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. *     *     * Everyone aspires to get into “the zone,” or the mental state where…

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How to Get into Your Zone

April 1, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by James Allworth for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click…

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