Month: December 2012

How to Create a Vision that Motivates Your Team

December 5, 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. * * * Effective leaders motivate their people with an inspiring vision. It…

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Leapfrogging: A book review by Bob Morris

December 5, 2012

Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs Soren Kaplan Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2012) The power and value of serendipity on the other side of complexity As I began to read this book, I was reminded of an observation by…

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Harder Than I Thought: A book review by Bob Morris

December 4, 2012

Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader  Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why “the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present” in today’s business world Most of the…

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How to resolve the current “gridlock” in the federal government

December 4, 2012

All members of the executive, administrative, and judicial branches of the federal government are employees of United States taxpayers who also own various real estate properties such as Camp David and the White House, as well as the Capital and…

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John Cleese on “5 Factors to Make Your Life More Creative”

December 3, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from a recent blog post by Maria Popova, founder of Brain Pickings as well as an “interestingness hunter-gatherer” and curious mind at large. She also writes for Wired UK and The Atlantic, among others, and is an…

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William N. Thorndike, Jr.: An interview by Bob Morris

December 3, 2012

William N. Thorndike, Jr. founded Housatonic Partners in Boston in 1994 and has been Managing Director since that time.  Prior to that, he worked with T. Rowe Price Associates where he did investment research in the nascent field of business services and Walker & Company where…

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How to Keep Your To-Do List Fresh with the 3-Day Rule

December 3, 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. * * * A to-do list is only useful if you cross things…

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Deborah L. Jacobs on “10 Things To Do When You Win The Lottery”

December 2, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Deborah L. Jacobs and featured by Forbes magazine. To read the complete article, check out other sources, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. *…

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Matthew E. May: Second Interview, Part 2, by Bob Morris

December 2, 2012

Matthew E. May is the author of The Laws of Subtraction: 6 Simple Rules for Winning in the Age of Excess Everything, as well as three previous, award-winning books: The Elegant Solution, In Pursuit of Elegance, and The Shibumi Strategy.…

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