Month: March 2014
Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Bill Murphy Jr. for Inc. magazine. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * People judge you by what you do–and…
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They’re back! Those wonderful Church Bulletins! Thank Goodness for the church ladies with typewriters. These sentences really did appear in church bulletins or were announced at church services: The fee for the Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals. * *…
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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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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 Avinoam Nowogrodski, the chief executive…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an interview of Herb Kelleher by Chuck Lucier in 2004 when Kelleher was chairman and CEO of Southwest Airlines. Durting the course of the interview, the co-founder and then chairman of Southwest Airlines tells…
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The Hybrid Tiger: Secrets of the Extraordinary Success of Asian-American Kids Quanyu Huang Prometheus Books (2014) Why what a country can achieve depends almost entirely on the education and cultivation of its children As I began to read this book,…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Justin Fox for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…
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Here’s a brief excerpt from an article co-authored by Jon Katzenbach, Rutger von Post, and James Thomas for strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company. In it, they discuss why business leaders should forget the monolithic change management programs and…
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Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao Crown Business (2014) How to increase and improve “pockets of peak performance” throughout the given enterprise Three of the greatest separate but related challenges…
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Gallup: The Truth About Telecommuting
Here’s a brief excerpt from an article by Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO of the Gallup Organization. It is featured by LinkedIn Pulse. To check out all the articles posted by the website’s Influentials, please click here. * * *…
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