Month: March 2013

Global Tilt and the Dexterity That Cross-Cultural Management Now Requires

March 4, 2013

I recently read Ram Charan’s latest book, Global Tilt: Leading Your Business Through the Great Economic Power Shift, whose title refers to the fact that “the world has tilted. Its economic center has shifted from what have traditionally been called…

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Ryan Smith (Qualtrics) in “The Corner Office”

March 3, 2013

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  Ryan Smith, a co-founder and the C.E.O. of Qualtrics, a…

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Global Tilt: A book review by Bob Morris

March 3, 2013

Global Tilt: Leading Your Business Through the Great Economic Power Shift Ram Charan Crown Business (February 2013) For leaders in global companies, here are a compass, GPS, searchlight, x-ray machine, and microscope to find their way I have read and…

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 2/25/13)

March 3, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Global Tilt: Leading Your Business Through the Great Economic Power Shift Ram Charan The AIG Story Maurice R. Greenberg and Lawrence…

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The AIG Story: A book review by Bob Morris

March 2, 2013

The AIG Story Maurice R. Greenberg and Lawrence Cunningham John Wiley & Sons (2013) A “story” whose complexity defies pure objectivity but one that comes about as close as one could to explaining what happened Although two co-authors are identified,…

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4 Ways to Change the Energy Conversation!

March 2, 2013

Here is a guest post provided by Achim Nowak to the Great Leadership website. To learn more about the organization and its resources, please click here. * * * We love to run personality profiles on our leaders. These profiles…

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Literally, one of history’s coolest ideas

March 2, 2013

In Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation published by Riverhead Books/Penguin (2010), Steven Johnson examines the origin and development of what is quite literally one of history’s coolest ideas: the air conditioner. Based in Brooklyn, the Sackett-Wilhelm Lithography Company…

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Metacognition: How to read, understand, and retain much more in much less time

March 1, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by J.N. Chaney for Cracked.com, the most visited humor website in the world, with over 300 million monthly page views. The award-winning site was founded in 2007 by Jack O’Brien and…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Teams: A book review by Bob Morris

March 1, 2013

HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Teams Various Contributors with Editors of Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review Press (2013) Most teams self-destruct. Don’t let that happen to yours. This is one in a series of anthologies of individual articles that…

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How to Use Questions to Build Your Case

March 1, 2013

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. * * * When making a case for something, you’ll have an easier…

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