Month: June 2011

The Customer-Centered Innovation Map

June 7, 2011

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Lance Bettencourt and Anthony Ulwick 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…

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Random information for June (Rebuild Your Life Month)

June 6, 2011

The world did not end on May 21, as Christian radio broadcaster Harold Camping had predicted. Oops. Time to start rebuilding your life. Interesting Facts: • In 1989, there were 1.8 million email accounts. Today, there are more than 3 billion. Over 100 trillion…

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Getting Credit for Making Other People Shine

June 6, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Andrea Ovans 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…

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Judith M. Bardwick: An interview by Bob Morris

June 6, 2011

Bardwick is is a highly regarded speaker, consultant, researcher, and writer on psychological aspects of people at work. For more than two decades, she has combined cutting-edge psychological research with practical business applications to optimize organizational performance, change organizational views…

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Rosabeth Moss Kanter: An interview by Bob Morris

June 6, 2011

Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. She advises major corporations and governments worldwide, and is the author or co-author of 15 books,…

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The Experience Economy: A book review by Bob Morris

June 6, 2011

The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage B. Joseph Pine and James H. Gilmore Harvard Business Review Press (1999) Note: I read this book when it was first published and recently re-read it, curious to know…

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Avoid 3 Traps of Performance Management

June 6, 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. Few performance assessment systems measure what really matters: current and future performance.…

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Jay Cross: An interview by Bob Morris

June 5, 2011

Jay Cross is a champion of informal learning, Web 2.0, and systems thinking. His calling is to help business people improve their performance on the job and satisfaction in life. He has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since…

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Informal Learning: A book review by Bob Morris

June 5, 2011

Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways That Inspire Innovation and Performance Jay Cross Pfeiffer (2006) In the Introduction, Jay Cross makes a number of crisp assertions, several of which are certain to generate controversy. For example, “Workers learn more in…

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Bing Gordon (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) in “The Corner Office”

June 5, 2011

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 Bing Gordon, a partner at the…

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