Month: February 2015

Assign New Challenges to Keep Your Employees Satisfied

February 14, 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. * * * Employees don’t just want their skills used, they want them…

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A Strategist’s Guide to the Internet of Things

February 13, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article by Frank Burkitt for strategy+business published by Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company). He explains why the digital interconnection of billions of devices is today’s most dynamic business opportunity. To read the complete article,…

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Dialogue: A book review by Bob Morris

February 13, 2015

Dialogue: The Art of Thinking Together Hardcover William Isaacs Crown Business (September 1999) The Power of Interactive Humanity Note: I posted the review that follows 14 years ago and recently re-read the book while preparing to review Critical Knowledge Transfer:…

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Are You Sure You’re Not a Micromanager?

February 13, 2015

  Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any HBR newsletters, please click here. *     *     * If you’re like most micromanagers, you don’t even realize…

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Don’t Let a Group Dynamic Quash Critical Thinking

February 12, 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. * * * People often censor themselves when working in groups because they…

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Embrace Your Ignorance

February 12, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Michael Schrage, featured in the MIT Sloan Management Review. Today’s savviest executives acknowledge that most of the time, they can’t accurately predict what their customers will want, like or need. That’s…

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If Only We Knew What We Know: A book review by Bob Morris

February 12, 2015

If Only We Knew What We Know: The Transfer of Internal Knowledge and Best Practice Carla O’Dell and C. Jackson Grayson Free Press (2012, Paperbound Edition) The Invisibility of the Obvious Note: I posted the review that follows 14 years…

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Design to Grow: A book review by Bob Morris

February 11, 2015

Design to Grow: How Coca-Cola Learned to Combine Scale and Agility (and How You Can Too) David Butler and Linda Tischler Simon & Schuster (2015) How the design by purpose process can create value while driving both scale and agility…

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Assessment: How Resilient Are You?

February 11, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries 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…

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Creating Value Through Business Model Innovation

February 11, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Raphael Amit and Christoph Zott, featured in the MIT Sloan Management Review. Could your company benefit from a new business model? They pose six questions for business leaders to consider. To…

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