Month: August 2011

Strategy’s strategist: An interview with Richard Rumelt

August 6, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an interview of Richard Rumelt (November 2007) co-conducted by Dan P. Lovallo and Lenny T. Mendonca and featured by McKinsey & Company’s McKinsey Quarterly. To read the compkete interview, please click here. *     *     *…

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Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

August 6, 2011

Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership: Executive Lessons from the Bully Pulpit James M. Strock Three Rivers Press (2001) “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt I selected the quotation for the title of my review…

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Three Integrity Questions for Leaders

August 6, 2011

Here is an excerot from an article written by Alaina Love and featured by the BloombergBusinessweek website (August 6, 2011) To check out all the resources, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. *     *    …

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Glut: A book review by Bob Morris

August 5, 2011

Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages Alex Wright Cornell University Press ((2007) How and why “the torch song of technological transcendentalism has passed from the visionary fringe into cultural mainstream” Alex Wright explains that in this volume, he approaches the…

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Paula Marantz Cohen on how to make books spark to life for college students

August 5, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Paula Marantz Cohen and featured by The American Scholar magazine. As you probably know already, The American Scholar is the venerable but lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history,…

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50 Prosperity Classics: A book review by Bob Morris

August 5, 2011

50 Prosperity Classics: Attract It, Create It, Manage It,  Share It Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey Publishing (2008) Henry Ford was right Note: This is one of the volumes in the 5o Classics series, each available in a softbound edition and…

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How to Cope with Your Incompetent Boss

August 5, 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. Everyone complains about his or her boss from time to time.…

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Servants who lead or leaders who serve?

August 4, 2011

Robert K. Greenleaf is generally credited with developing ideas we now refer to as “servant leadership.” As he explains in his eponymous essay (first published in 1970), and later developed into a book, “The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with…

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Don’t Be Blinded By Common Recruitment Myths

August 4, 2011

Here is an article written by Paul Harty for Talent Management magazine (8/4/11). 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 here.…

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Edward M. Hallowell: An interview by Bob Morris

August 4, 2011

Are you looking for practical, how-to solutions to life’s personal challenges? Best selling author Dr. Edward (“Ned”) Hallowell offers groundbreaking advice on how to survive in an ultra-competitive, ultra fast, attention deficit society while remaining sane, how to raise happy…

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