Month: April 2011

Business Network Transformation: A book review by Bob Morris

April 22, 2011

Business Network Transformation: Strategies to Reconfigure Your Business Relationships for Competitive Advantage Jeffrey Word, Editor Jossey-Bass/John S. Wiley & Sons (2007) A “must have” combination of compass, GPS, tool kit, and operations manual for BNT Whatever their size or nature,…

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End the Sunday Blues

April 22, 2011

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. *     *     * If you spend Monday through Friday doing what you have…

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3 Ways to Manage Your Weaknesses

April 21, 2011

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. Despite what you may be tempted to say in job interviews, you have…

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The Missing Market for Failure

April 21, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Joshua Gans 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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The New Edge of Knowledge: A book review by Bob Morris

April 21, 2011

The New Edge in Knowledge: How Knowledge Management s Changing the Way We Do Business Carla O’Dell and Cindy Hubert John Wiley & Sons (2011) Finally, in a single volume, just about all you need to know about results-driven knowledge…

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Revolution from the Edge

April 21, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Hagel III, part of the Edge Perspectives with John Hagel series, one that offers an on-going “exploration of emerging innovations on a broad array of edges that are rising up to…

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New Sustainability Study: The “Embracers” Seize Advantage

April 20, 2011

Knut Haanaes, Balu Balagopal, Ming Teck Kong, Ingrid Velken, David Arthur, Michael S. Hopkins and Nina Kruschwitz co-authored the cover story for the March 2011 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out other resources,…

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Succession planning involves much more than succession

April 20, 2011

For reasons that continue to elude me, leaders of most organizations still do not realize that succession planning involves much more than succession. In my opinion, these are the key points to keep in mind. 1. Actively recruit for the…

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Little Bets: A book review by Bob Morris

April 20, 2011

Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries Peter Sims Free Press/Simon & Schuster (23011) How to generate “ingenious ideas…through a rigorous experimental discovery process” Having read and reviewed True North, a book Peter Sims co-authored with Bill George,…

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Admit When You Don’t Know

April 20, 2011

    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. Many managers are afraid to utter things like: “I don’t know,” “Would you help me?”…

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