Month: October 2011

Ric Merrifield: An interview by Bob Morris

October 11, 2011

Merrifield spent nearly 15 years in various consulting roles helping organizations define and achieve their goals. Since joining Microsoft, Merrifield has spent more than 10,000 hours as a business architect and has filed twelve patent applications, all of which share…

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Top executives need feedback—here’s how they can get it

October 11, 2011

Here is an excerpt from another outstanding article written by Robert Steven Kaplan and made available by The McKinsey Quarterly at its website. To read the complete article, check out other resources, and sign up for free email alerts, please…

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4 Biggest Lies About Social Media

October 11, 2011

Here is an article written by Penelope Trunk 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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Encourage Push Back

October 10, 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. Deference to authority is deeply engrained in most of us. As a…

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6 Lessons We Could Learn from Steve Jobs

October 9, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Margaret Heffernan 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…

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Joseph Jimenez (Novartis) in “The Corner Office”

October 9, 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 Joseph Jimenez, C.E.O. of Novartis,…

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Demand: A book review by Bob Morris

October 8, 2011

Demand: Creating What People Love Before They Know They wWant It Adrian J. Slywotzky with Karl Weber Crown Business (2011) How to create a demand-creating culture Many books published in recent years offer excellent advice on how to create and…

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Where is Amadeo Giannini when we need him most?

October 7, 2011

In 1904,  Amadeo Giannini founded the Bank of Italy in San Francisco to provide personal as well as professional services to those such as recent immigrants who had been denied service from other banks. When the 1906 earthquake struck, Giannini…

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Jim Collins: An interview by Bob Morris

October 6, 2011

Collins is a student of enduring great companies — how they grow, how they attain superior performance, and how good companies can become great companies. Having invested more than a decade of research into the topic, Jim has co-authored four…

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Revisiting Jim Collins

October 6, 2011

Rarely do I re-read a business book but recently made an exception with Jim Collins’ How the Mighty Fall because I wanted to correlate his five-stage process of decline with what Richard Tedlow has to say about once-great companies whose…

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