Month: February 2013
Hostage at the Table: How Leaders Can Overcome Conflict, Influence Others, and Raise Performance George Kohlrieser Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2006) How to avoid becoming or remaining a “hostage” to self-defeating expectations of you (including your own) The title of this review was suggested by Ernest…
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As we all know, organizational social-media literacy is fast becoming a source of competitive advantage. Here is a brief excerpt from an article co-authored by Roland Deiser and Sylvain Newton for The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. In it, they help their readers to learn, through…
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The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results Calhoun W. Wick, Roy V. H. Pollock, Andy Jefferson, and Richard Flanagan Pfeiffer/A Wiley Imprint (2003) Note: This is an excellent example of a book…
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I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration Leigh Thompson This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your…
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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 Robert LoCascio, founder and C.E.O.…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Kotter for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR…
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Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration Leigh Thompson Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How and why focused, individual work can achieve innovation breakthroughs when combined with structured team interaction However different they may be in many respects, all…
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This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking John Brockman, Editor Harper Perennial/HarperCollins (2012) Here are dozens of perspectives on what are, for most people, new scientific concepts for self-improvement Edge.org is a website offering an abundance of…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Roger Martin for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Review’s Daily…
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Don’t Let Strategy Become Planning
To Here is an excerpt from an article written by Roger Martin for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR…
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