Month: April 2014

Don Knauss (chief executive of the Clorox Company) in “The Corner Office”

April 2, 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 Don Knauss, chief executive of…

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The Innovator’s Field Guide: A book review by Bob Morris

April 2, 2014

The Innovator’s Field Guide: Market Tested Methods and Frameworks to Help You Meet Your Innovation Challenges Peter Skarzynski and David Crosswaite Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2014) Here’s a “comprehensive, practical how-to guide to address the most pressing innovation challenges in your…

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Daniel Isenberg on “Focus Entrepreneurship Policy on Scale-Up, Not Start-Up”

April 2, 2014

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Daniel Isenberg 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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Elizabeth Gilbert on “Your elusive creative genius”

April 1, 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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Ryan Babineaux and John Krumboltz on “Five Keys to Curiosity”

April 1, 2014

According to Ryan Babineaux and John Krumboltz, “Because people spend so much of their lives being talked out of (or talking themselves out of) their curiosity, they often lose a healthy connection to it. If you find that the strength…

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The Essential Management Book You’re Not Reading

April 1, 2014

Here is an excerpt from an article by Leigh Buchanan for Inc. magazine in which she explains why a handbook originally intended for software programmers, Extreme Programming Explained, is gaining a cult status for its simple leadership ideas. To read…

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