Month: September 2011

Joe’s Journal: On Success and Creative Destruction

September 16, 2011

Here is the latest post by Joseph A. Maciariello featured in the Joe’s Journal series at the Drucker Exchange (Dx) sponsored by the Drucker Institute. The Drucker Exchange (the Dx) is a platform for bettering society through effective management and…

Read More

Harvard Business Review on Building Better Teams: A book review by Bob Morris

September 16, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Building Better Teams Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why some teams “shoot out the lights”…and most don’t Those who aspire to help create and then lead create teams that deliver high-impact results…

Read More

3 Rules for Networking at Work

September 16, 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. We often think of networking as connecting with people outside our organizations. But…

Read More

Shortlist Announced for Financial Times and Goldman Sachs “Business Book of the Year” Award

September 15, 2011

Thursday September 15th, 2011:  The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs today announced the shortlist for the seventh annual Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, which aims to identify the book providing the most compelling and…

Read More

TheAtlanticCities.com, the New Digital Property of The Atlantic, Launches Today

September 15, 2011

I have just received this exciting announcement from Natalie Raabe and am pleased to share it with you. As we proceed through the so-called “Age of Information,” an age that seems to be more like a blizzard each day, some sources…

Read More

The Startup Man: A Conversation With Joi Ito

September 15, 2011

Here is a portion of Gregory Mone’s conversation with Joi Ito, featured online by The Atlantic magazine. To read the complete conversation, please click here. *     *     * After a wide-ranging career in business and as a leading public intellectual on…

Read More

The Great Workplace: A book review by Bob Morris

September 15, 2011

The Great Workplace: How to Build It, How to Keep It, and Why It Matters Michael Burchell and Jennifer Robin Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2011) This is a book I have eagerly awaited. Year after year, Fortune posts its annual list…

Read More

The Wisdom of Bees: A book review by Bob Morris

September 14, 2011

The Wisdom of Bees: What the Hive Can Teach Business About Leadership, Efficiency, and Growth Michael O’Malley Portfolio/Penguin (2010) “What they have done has worked for them”…and can work for us as well. I read this book when it was…

Read More

Gail McMeekin: An interview by Bob Morris

September 14, 2011

Gail McMeekin loves to inspire people to envision and then achieve their personal and professional goals. She is a licensed psychotherapist who became fascinated with the concept of “why so many people hate their jobs.” She then shifted her focus…

Read More

The Fatigue Factor

September 14, 2011

Here is an article written by John Boudreau 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 here. *     *    …

Read More