Month: October 2012

Valuable Links to Free TED Resources

October 21, 2012

TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences —…

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Maria K. Mitchell (Amdec) in “The Corner Office”

October 21, 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 Maria K. Mitchell, president of…

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Closing the Great Skills Divide

October 20, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Susan Cantrell, Catherine Farley, and David Smith 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…

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What Really Alienates Top Performers

October 20, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Steven DeMaio 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 Women Lead: A book review by Bob Morris

October 20, 2012

How Women Lead: The 8 Essential Strategies Successful Women Know  Sharon Hadary and Laura Henderson McGraw-Hill (2013) What all of us can learn from the strategies that women use to achieve success   Actually, the eight strategies that Sharon Hadary and Laura Henderson…

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How to Make Your Big Idea Really Happen

October 19, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Hagel III and John Seely Brown  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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Eight essential strategies that successful women in business know

October 19, 2012

In How Women Lead, Sharon Hadary and Laura Henderson share what they learned from rigorous and extensive research to identify what they characterize as “eight essential strategies successful women know.” They devote a separate chapter to each strategy and provide…

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Introverts Can Still Innovate

October 19, 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. * * * New ideas are only valuable if they’re shared with…

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What business should do to restore competitiveness

October 18, 2012

Here is an excerpt from article co-authored by Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin in which they explain how and why companies can get America’s edge back while advancing their own interests. It appeared in Fortune magazine. *     *  …

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Dave Logan on “The mindset of great leaders”

October 18, 2012

Here is an article written by Dave Logan 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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