Month: September 2011

Mary C. Gentile on “voicing values in the workplace”

September 27, 2011

Here is a brief introduction to a video interview of Mary C. Gentile by Lily Cunningham that I consider a “must see.” Credit McKinsey & Company and its Quarterly for creating access to valuable insights on a business subject that…

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Mary C. Gentile: An interview by Bob Morris

September 27, 2011

Mary C. Gentile is Senior Research Scholar at Babson College; Senior Advisor, Aspen Institute Business & Society Program; and consultant. Previously Gentile was faculty member and case development manager at Harvard Business School. She is author of Giving Voice To…

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Total Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

September 27, 2011

Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life Stewart D. Friedman Harvard Business School Press (2008) Friedman recommends a four-step process of exploration and discovery of the relative importance in each of four domains in life (i.e. work,…

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Stewart D. Friedman: An interview by Bob Morris

September 27, 2011

Currently Friedman is a Practice Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  Friedman is founder and director of Wharton’s Work/Life Integration Project and he founded Wharton’s Leadership Programs for both the MBA and Undergraduate divisions. …

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How to help your employees become much better listeners

September 27, 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 worthwhile initiatives fail because of communication breakdowns: management…

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Kevin Spacey’s “5 Tactics to Win Over the Other Side”

September 27, 2011

Here is an article written by John Baldoni for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. *    …

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Seth Kahan: An interview by Bob Morris

September 27, 2011

Seth Kahan is a change specialist, helping create the uptake and support for significant transformation. He has worked with executives and senior leaders on high-impact change at World Bank, Peace Corps, Shell, NASA, and 20+ organizations in the public and private…

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Maddy Dychtwald on Gender Fluidity: Are Men Still From Mars?

September 27, 2011

Here’s an article written by Maddy Dychtwald for The Huffington Post. To read the complete article, please click here. *     *     *  When I was knee-deep in research for my latest book, Influence: How Women’s Soaring…

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Influence: A book review by Bob Morris

September 27, 2011

Influence: How Women’s Soaring Economic Power Will Transform Our World for the Better Maddy Dychtwald with Christine Larson Voice/Hyperion (2010) The “soaring economic power” referred to in this book’s subtitle is the result of an “economic emancipation [as] women around…

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