Month: April 2012

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April 15, 2012

Thinkers50 offers the definitive global ranking of management thinkers and is published every two years. The 2009 winner was CK Prahalad. The ranking is based on voting at the Thinkers50 website and input from a team of advisers led by…

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Annette Catino (QualCare Inc.) in “The Corner Office”

April 15, 2012

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 Annette Catino, president and C.E.O. ofQualCare Inc., an alternative…

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How Women Mean Business: A book review by Bob Morris

April 14, 2012

How Women Mean Business: A Step by Step Guide to Profiting from Gender Balanced Business Avivah Wittenberg-Cox John Wiley & Sons (2010) How and why appropriate gender balance is an immensely promising business opportunity This is one of two books written…

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Strategies for Learning from Failure

April 14, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Amy C. Edmondson 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 click here. *     *   …

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The New Science of Building Great Teams

April 13, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Alex “Sandy” Pentland 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 click here. *   …

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How strategic listening can engage employees in an open and realistic way

April 13, 2012

In the winning entries in a contest co-sponsored McKinsey & Company with Gary Hamel’s Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) and Harvard Business Review, the authors of seven articles reveal executive thinking on the importance of engaging employees in an open and realistic way. Source: Organization Practice To read the complete article,…

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How to put your money where your strategy is

April 13, 2012

Here is an excerpt from another outstanding article featured by The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. It was co-authored by Stephen Hall, Dan Lovallo, and Reinier Musters. Most companies allocate the same resources to the same business units year after year. That makes it…

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Erik Qualman: An interview by Bob Morris

April 13, 2012

Called a “Digital Dale Carnegie,” Erik Qualman is the author of Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business and, more recently, Digital Leader: 5 Simple Keys to Success and Influence.  Socialnomics made Amazon’s #1 Best Selling List for the US, Japan, UK, Canada,…

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The four most common forms of really dumb thinking

April 12, 2012

Opinions vary about which forms are the most common and many of those opinions offer excellent examples of dumb thinking. The opinions I now share are those of several thinkers whom I personally admire. They include Plato, Aristotle, St. Paul,…

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Why Management Ideas Matter

April 12, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from a brilliant article by posted by Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer. It is featured at the Thinkers50 website. To read the complete article and check out the wealth of resources, please click here. *…

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