Month: February 2015
Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Lareina Yee for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. She poses five questions can help start a challenging management conversation. To read the complete article, check out other…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Erin Griffith for FORTUNE magazine in which she observes that the billion-dollar tech startup was supposed to be the stuff of myth. Now they seem to be…everywhere. To read the complete…
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There are valuable lessons to be learned from others’ awkward moments. For example, in October 1998 off the coast of Kerry, Ireland, there was this exchange: Irish: “Please divert your course 15 degrees to the south, to avoid a…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ram Charan 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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New Rules of the Game: 10 Strategies for Women in the Workplace Susan Packard Prentice Hall Press (2015) Results-driven strategies and tactics that can help women to accelerate their personal growth and professional development Whatever their size and nature may…
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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 Andrew Filev, chief executive of…
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Here is a brief but timely excerpt from an interview of Google co-founder and CEO, Larry Page, by Steven Levy that appeared in the March 2013 issue of Wired magazine. To read the complete article, c heck out others, and…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article OpEd article by Danial J. Levitin for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * This month [i.e.…
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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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Another source of research data on employee engagement
Until recently, I did not know that Modern Survey released the results of its Fall 2013 Employee Engagement Study (“State of Engagement: Unveiling the Latest Employee Engagement Research”) on December 3, 2013. The study finds that while employee engagement is…
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