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Dorie Clark on How to Stand Out: An interview by Bob Morris

April 6, 2015

Dorie Clark is the author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013) and Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It (Portfolio/Penguin, 2015). A former presidential campaign…

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The 5 Biases Pushing Women Out of STEM

April 1, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Joan C. Williams for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. I wholly agree with her: “If organizations are truly interested in retaining and advancing women, they will approach the…

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Recruiting Better Talent with Brain Games and Big Data

March 3, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article by Yuki Noguchi for National Public Radio. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about NPR, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. Photo Credit: Marcus Butt/Getty…

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Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant on Why Women Stay Quiet at Work

February 20, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Photo Credit: Getty Images * *…

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Richard Levin: Coursera takes aim at unemployment

February 19, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an interview of Richard Levin by Michael Chui for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. After a long tenure in traditional academia, Richard Levin joined online-learning site Coursera as CEO, where he…

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Geena Davis on “Addressing unconscious bias”

February 18, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Geena Davis for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. Does lopsided male representation in media skew our perceptions? Geena Davis believes it does and that corporations have a…

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Elements of a Good Story

January 25, 2015

In Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, Hermina Ibarra explains that all great stories, from Antigone to Casablanca to Star Wars, derive their power from a beginning-middle-end end story structure and these other basic characteristics: A protagonist: The…

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James Galbraith on Economic Growth: Now and Forever

September 28, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from the first chapter of James K. Galbraith’s most recent book, The End of Normal: The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth, published by Simon and Schuster (September 2014). Whereas Henry Kissinger focuses on…

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Paul Krugman on “Knowledge Isn’t Power”

August 6, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Paul Krugman for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out other resources, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * One of the best insults…

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Jeremy Eden and Terri Long: An interview by Bob Morris

June 8, 2014

Jeremy Eden and Terri Long are co-founders and co-CEOs of Harvest Earnings Group, Inc. Jeremy has decades of consulting and performance improvement experience in business and government including at McKinsey and Company. Terri was in the corporate banking world for…

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