Month: March 2015

A Shared Sense of Purpose Can Help Boost Morale

March 24, 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. * * * Struggling companies have a hard time keeping employees engaged because leaders…

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Shaka Senghor’s TED talk: Why your worst deeds don’t define you

March 23, 2015

In 1991, Shaka Senghor shot and killed a man. He was, he says, “a drug dealer with a quick temper and a semi-automatic pistol.” Jailed for second-degree murder, that could very well have been the end of the story. But…

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Stephen J. Immelt (C.E.O. of Hogan Lovells) in “The Corner Office”

March 23, 2015

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 Stephen J. Immelt, C.E.O. of…

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The Tools You Need to Make Every Meeting More Productive

March 23, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Alexandra Samuel 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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Bernhard Schroeder: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

March 22, 2015

Bernhard Schroeder is the Director, Lavin Entrepreneurship Center Programs and oversees all of the undergraduate and graduate experiential entrepreneurship programs on the San Diego State University campus. He also has responsibility for the Center’s marketing and outreach on both the…

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The Connected Leader: A book review by Bob Morris

March 22, 2015

The Connected Leader: Creating Agile Organizations for People Performance and Profit Emmanuel Gobillot KoganPage (2006) How and why, without agile and resilient leadership, no organization can thrive or even survive in today’s global marketplace Emmanuel Gobillot invites his readers to…

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“It Don’t Cost Nuthin’ to be Nice” Paul (Bear) Bryant

March 21, 2015

Here is a reprise of a blog post that offers several valuable reminders now when civility remains an endangered species in our society. The way I heard it, Coach Bryant told the following story at a Touchdown Club meeting many…

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The Brain’s Way of Healing: A book review by Bob Morris

March 21, 2015

The Brain’s Way of Healing: Stories of Remarkable Recoveries and Discoveries Norman Doidge, M.D. Viking Press (2015) How to strengthen our neuroplastic abilities so that our mind “can direct its own unique restorative process of growth.” I am not a…

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Instead of Networking, Try Building Relationships

March 21, 2015

Here is a brief article by Orion Jones for bigthink.com, a website that offers an abundant variety of information, insights, and counsel in videos, articles, playlists as well as material from experts and a special “Edge” section. I urge you…

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The Power and Value of a “Mind Opening Team”

March 20, 2015

In the final chapter of his latest book, The High-Speed Company, written with Larry Haughton, Jason Jennings cites a conversation in one of Kurt Vonnegut’s novels, Bluebeard, when the painter Rabo Kazrabekian listens to his neighbor, Paul Slazinger, who tells…

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