Month: August 2012
Everything Is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us Duncan J. Watts Crown Business (2011) How we can “revolutionize our understanding of ourselves and how we interact” As I began to read this book, I was reminded of a passage in Paul Schoemaker’s latest book, Brilliant…
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Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World Michael Hyatt Thomas Nelson (2012) How to “get noticed and win big in an increasingly noisy world” Given the blizzards of messages we receive electronically and the cacophony of voices competing for attention, it is much more difficult now than…
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Although he will be remembered as the first human being to walk on the surface of the moon, Neil Armstrong said something in later years that I will always think about whenever his name is mentioned. He was justifiably proud…
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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 Mario Batali, the chef, cookbook author and television personality, has…
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The Upside of the Downturn: Ten Management Strategies to Prevail in the Recession and Thrive in the Aftermath Geoff Colvin Portfolio/The Penguin Group (w009) Note: I read this book when it was first published and recently re-read it. If anything, it…
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According to Frans Johansson, “When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary new ideas. The name I have give this phenomenon, the Medici Effect, comes from a remarkable burst of creativity in fifteenth-century Italy.”…
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Here is an article written by Amy Levin-Epstein for CBS MoneyWatch, the CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the website’s newsletters, please click here. *…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Greg McKeown 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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Here is an excerpt from another exceptionally well-written article written by Scott D. Anthony 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 Seven Deadly Sins of Management
Here is an excerpt from an article written by Julian Birkinshaw 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. * * * We…
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