Month: June 2013
Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim Harvard Business Review Press (2013) What non-quants need to understand in order to take full advantage of the results that quantitative analysis…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Maria Popova for her Brain Pickings website. She reflects on the “powerful blend of instruction, encouragement, and constant practice.” She also directs our attention to an immensely interesting book, The…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by by Matthew E. May for strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company. In it, he explains why the best innovation strategies are rooted in the art of subtraction. To read…
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Dennis Perkins is Chief Executive Officer of The Syncretics Group, a consulting firm devoted to effective leadership in demanding environments—especially those characterized by uncertainty, ambiguity, and rapid change. Perkins has worked for over twenty-five years as an advisor to senior…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Priscilla Long in which she explains what it takes to take in, say, a Picasso. It was published by The American Scholar, the venerable but lively quarterly magazine of public affairs,…
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Here is a brief excerpt from a brief article written by one of my favorite essayists, David Brooks, for The New York Times. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. * * * Some of…
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Here is a brief portion of a mini-interview featured by Amazon during which David Shenk responds to questions about his latest book, The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ. Photo © Alexandra Beers *…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Patrick Sweeney for Chief Learning Officer magazine. To read the complete article, check out all the resources, and sign up for a free subscription to the CLO and/or Talent Management…
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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 Bill McDermott, co-C.E.O. of SAP, the software company, says employers “will…
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Captains in Disruption
Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Ken Favaro, Per-Ola Karlsson, and Gary L. Neilson for strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company. In it, they explain how, even when facing a crisis, some CEOs know how…
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