Month: August 2013

Jonah Berger: An interview by Bob Morris

August 4, 2013

What leads products, ideas, and behaviors to catch on and become popular? Jonah Berger studies how word of mouth and social influence drive social epidemics and trends. He is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School at the…

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Inside the Box: A book review by Bob Morris

August 3, 2013

Inside the Box: A Proven System of Creativity for Breakthrough Results Drew Boyd and Jacob Goldenberg Simon & Schuster (2013) How and why innovation happens “better and quicker when you work inside the box” Drew Boyd and Jacob Goldenberg must…

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Obama’s Accreditation Reforms of Higher Education: A Briefing

August 3, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an especially timely as well as informative article written by for Irene White for Your Accreditation Advocate Blog, featured by the AccreditedOnlineColleges.com. Please check out the information about AccreditedOnlineColleges.com provided below, after the excerpt. To read…

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Flight from Monticello: A book review by Bob Morris

August 2, 2013

Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War Thomas Kranish Oxford University Press (2010) Why Jefferson’s flights from Richmond and Monticello “were the lowest points of his public life” Having just read and reviewed Nathaniel Philbrick’s Bunker Hill, I decided to…

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Fact Behind The Fiction: 5 Great Historicals For Summer

August 2, 2013

Here is an excerpt from another “book report” from NPR provided by Jean Zimmerman. She discusses five of her favorites. Here is the first. To read the complete article, please click here. Illustration: Andrew Bannecker * * * “So was…

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The Latest Findings on Workplace Happiness

August 2, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Dan Bowling for Talent Management magazine. To read the complete article, 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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How to Quit Your Job Like Sherwood Anderson: The Best Resignation Letter Ever Written

August 1, 2013

Here is an excerpt from a recent post by Maria Popova at her website, Brain Pickings. If you have not as yet checked out this treasure trove of brain food, please do so ASAP. Meanwhile, I invite you to feast…

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Malcolm Gladwell on “ANNALS OF BUSINESS: When underdogs break the rules”

August 1, 2013

Here is the first portion of an article written by Malcolm Gladwell for The New Yorker. To read the complete article and others of his, please click here. * * * When Vivek Ranadivé decided to coach his daughter Anjali’s…

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Fred Hassan (chairman of Bausch & Lomb) in “The Corner Office”

August 1, 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 Fred Hassan who is chairman…

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