Month: September 2012

How to Create More Value From Employee Surveys

September 18, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Laurie Bassi and Dan McMurrer for Talent Management magazine. To check out all the resources and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and/or Chief Learning Officer magazines published by…

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Da Vinci’s Ghost: A book review by Bob Morris

September 17, 2012

Da Vinci’s Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image Toby Lester Free Press/Simon & Schuster Imprint (2012) Why has no one else ever tried to tell the story of the Vitruvian Man…until now? I…

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Harvard Business Review on Advancing Your Career: A book review by Bob Morris

September 17, 2012

Harvard Business Review on Advancing Your Career Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) “Companies own the jobs but people own their careers.”  Earl Nightingale This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business…

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Jarrod Moses (United Entertainment Group) in “The Corner Office”

September 16, 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 Jarrod Moses, founder of United Entertainment Group, a marketing agency,…

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Lead with a Story: A book review by Bob Morris

September 16, 2012

Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire Paul Smith AMACOM (2012) “Experience is the best teacher. A compelling story is a close second.”   This book is among the best that discuss one or more…

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“10Minutes on sustainable cost reduction” from PWC

September 15, 2012

From time to time, I come upon material that seems especially interesting and, more to the point, valuable. Here is one example: The 10Minutes series from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PWC), a Delaware limited liability partnership. *     *     * We recognize how…

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Play, passion, purpose: Tony Wagner @ TEDxNYED

September 14, 2012

How can we design schools that foster innovative thinking? At TEDxNYED, Tony Wagner outlines how an overemphasis on individual achievement, hyper-specialization, and an aversion to risk have stymied inventiveness and describes what specifically teachers and parents can do to sow…

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Street Smart Disciplines of Successful People: A book review by Bob Morris

September 14, 2012

Street Smart Disciplines of Successful People: 7 Indispensable Disciplines for Breakout Business Success John A. Kuhn and Mark K. Mullins CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2012) “Make everything as simple as possible but no simpler.”  Albert Einstein Einstein’s admonition stresses the…

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Simple Rules for a Complex World

September 13, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Donald Sull and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt 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 to Manage a Diverse and Dispersed Team

September 13, 2012

  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.*     *     * Teams that come together across different units and time zones to…

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