Month: February 2015

Geena Davis on “Addressing unconscious bias”

February 18, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Geena Davis for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. Does lopsided male representation in media skew our perceptions? Geena Davis believes it does and that corporations have a…

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Seven Disciplines of a Leader: A book review Bob Morris

February 17, 2015

Seven Disciplines of a Leader: How to Help Your People, Team, and Organization Achieve Maximum Effectiveness Jeff Wolf with Ken Shelton John Wiley & Sons (2015) How and why some leaders have high-impact and so many others don’t Another book…

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The Best Indicators of Deep Smarts

February 17, 2015

Dorothy Leonard has co-authored three books in which she discusses “deep smarts”: business-critical, experienced-based knowledge. Such knowledge is “deep” in terms of its nature and extent and smart in terms of its practical value. We all have had a relationship…

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How to Use Better Metaphors to Win an Audience Over

February 17, 2015

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * If you’re trying to engage an audience, using well-chosen metaphors…

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The do-or-die struggle for growth

February 16, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from a “classic” article written by Sven Smit, Caroline M. Thompson, and S. Patrick Viguerie for the McKinsey Quarterly (2005), published by McKinsey & Company. They discuss an enduring reality: The largest corporations rarely sustain…

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The LeanModel Framework for Start-Up Companies or Start-Up Projects

February 16, 2015

In Fail Fast or Win Big: The Start-Up Plan for Starting Now, Bernhard Schroeder introduces what he characterizes as the Lean Model Framework. As he explains, “”instead of spending months writing a business plan and then looking for investors, who…

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Working Quickly Isn’t Always the Best Idea

February 16, 2015

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * We all know procrastination isn’t productive – but neither is…

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Between Two Worlds: A book review by Bob Morris

February 15, 2015

Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans Malcolm Gaskill Basic Books/A Member of the Perseus Book Group (2014) A unique process of natural selection in the New World that led to independence from the Old World It is probably…

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Dick and Emily Axelrod: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

February 15, 2015

Dick and Emily Axelrod come from a long line of entrepreneurs. So it was no surprise when in 1981 Dick left General Foods to form The Axelrod Group. At the time Emily was studying to get her second masters degree,…

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Fail Fast or Win Big: A book review by Bob Morris

February 14, 2015

Fail Fast or Win Big: The Start-Up Plan for Starting Now Bernhard Schroeder AMACOM (2015) How and why the LeanModel Framework can be “a rocket ship for entrepreneurs” As I began to read this book, I was again reminded of…

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