Steven Kramer

Most Bosses Don’t Realize They are Micromanaging. Here are 4 Signs to Look Out for.

August 22, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article featured by LinkedIn Pulse. To read the complete article, check out others, and sign up to receive email alerts, please click here. * * * Micromanaging can be toxic in the workplace.…

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 8/26/13)

September 1, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS (Forget a Mentor) Find a Sponsor: The New Way to Fast-Track Your Career Sylvia Ann Hewlett Leading the Starbucks Way: 5…

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HBR Guide to Getting the Right Work Done: A book review by Bob Morris

November 2, 2012

HBR Guide to Getting the Right Work Done Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2012) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.” Peter Drucker This is one of…

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Three Ways to Turn Setbacks into Progress

February 6, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Teresa Amabile and Steve Kramer  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…

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Bill Kling (American Public Media Group) in “The Corner Office”

January 15, 2012

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 Bill Kling who is founder and…

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How leaders kill meaning at work

January 13, 2012

Here is an excerpt from still another outstanding article written by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer, featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly (January 2012), published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, obtain information about the firm, access…

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Fired Up or Burned Out: A book review by Bob Morris

September 24, 2011

Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion, Creativity, and Productivity Michael Lee Stallard with Carolyn Dewing-Hommes and Jason Pankau Thomas Nelson (2007) How to “take a hard line on the soft issues” Many of those who…

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Do Happier People Work Harder?

September 6, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article that appeared in The New York Times (September 4, 2011) in which Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer share their thoughts about correlations between happiness and productivity in the workplace. To read the complete…

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The Progress Principle: A book review by Bob Morris

August 30, 2011

The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to “unravel the mystery of what really affects workplace creativity” The information, insights, and recommendations…

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Teresa Amabile: Profile of a cutting edge thought leader

August 16, 2011

Long before almost anyone else, Teresa Amabile began to think about and write about creativity and innovation in business. Perhaps only her associates at Stanford, Michael Ray and Rochelle Myers, staked an earlier claim as pioneers in what has since…

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