Month: June 2011
In Flash Foresight: How to See the Invisible and Do the Impossible co-authored with John David Mann and published by Harper Business, Daniel Burrus discusses a skill that uses “the data of your five sense, as well as that intuitive…
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The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World With Kindness Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval Crown Business (2006) How to strengthen your “niceness muscles” Frankly, I think it would be ludicrous for anyone to need to read…
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The Power of Small: Why Little Things Make All the Difference Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval Broadway Business (2009) The great value of Thaler and Koval’s book is derived from their pragmatic approach to all manner of situations…
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Here is an article written by Nisa Chitakasem for Talent Management magazine. To check out all the resources and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and Chief Learning Officer magazines published by MedfiaTec, please click . * * …
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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. Overloaded and overwhelmed is the norm these days. Most leaders feel they…
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In his essay The Hedgehog and the Fox, Isaiah Berlin divides the world ‘s creatures into hedgehogs and foxes, based on an ancient Greek parable: “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” Jim Collins picks…
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Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University where he has taught since 1979. He is the author or co-author of thirteen books including The Human Equation: Building…
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The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton Harvard Business School Press (2000) How wide is yours? With few exceptions, the most valuable business books are those in which their authors share…
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Power: Why Some People Have It – and Others Don’t Jeffrey Pfeffer Harper Business (2010) Although Pfeffer does not invoke the core metaphor from Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” in The Republic, I think it is especially relevant to the…
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Direct your own future or someone else will
In Flash Foresight: How to See the Invisible and Do the Impossible, written with John David Mann and published by HarperBusiness (2011), Daniel Burrus discusses a skill that uses “the data of your five senses, as well as that intuitive…
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