Month: March 2014

Garry Kasparov: Cut Off the Russian Oligarchs and They’ll Dump Putin

March 27, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by for the Wall Street Journal in which Garry Kasparov suggests that U.S. foreign policy target Russian oligarchs’ assets abroad, their mansions and IPOs in London, their yachts. In other words, use…

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Simon Sinek on “How great leaders inspire action”

March 27, 2014

Richard Saul Wurman created the TED conference in 1984 as a onetime event. (As you probably know alread, TED refers to Technology, Education, and Design.) It became a four-day conference six years later. Chris Anderson purchased TED in 2001. Until…

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Strategy is Everyone’s Job: A book review by Bob Morris

March 27, 2014

Strategy is Everyone’s Job Steven J. Stowell and Stephanie S, Mead CMOE Press (2013) How and why even a slight competitive advantage can be decisive for an organization…and a career This is my favorite passage in Lao-Tzu’s Tao Te Ching…

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Anne-Marie Slaughter on “Can’t we all ‘have it all’?”

March 26, 2014

Richard Saul Wurman created the TED conference in 1984 as a onetime event. (As you may already know, TED refers to Technology, Education, and Design.) It became a four-day conference six years later. Chris Anderson purchased TED in 2001. Until…

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Shawn Jenkins (chief executive of Benefitfocus) in “The Corner Office”

March 25, 2014

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 Shawn Jenkins, chief executive of…

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The 20 Most-Watched TEDTalks

March 25, 2014

TED has just identified The 20 Most-Watched TEDTalks. Here’s a direct link to the article, one in which there are direct links to all of those TEDTalks. Enjoy! To learn more about TED, please click here.

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The Power of “Difference Thinking”

March 25, 2014

Although acknowledging one of Steve Jobs’s unique talents, Bernadette Jiwa suggests, “Difference thinking is more than the ability to connect the dots. It’s about seeing the truth, recognising the opportunity in that truth and then acting on it. You need…

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Michael Roberto: An interview by Bob Morris

March 24, 2014

Michael Roberto is the Trustee Professor of Management at Bryant University in Smithfield, RI. He has written two books: Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes For An Answer and Know What You Don’t Know. He has created two best-selling audio/video…

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Susan Cain on “The power of introverts”

March 24, 2014

Richard Saul Wurman created the TED conference in 1984 as a onetime event. (As you may already know, TED refers to Technology, Education, and Design.) It became a four-day conference six years later. Chris Anderson purchased TED in 2001. Until…

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