Month: March 2015

Taking the Stage: A book review by Bob Morris

March 20, 2015

Taking the Stage: How Women Can Speak Up, Stand Out, and Succeed Judith Humphrey Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2015)   How almost anyone “can find their own strong voice, seize new opportunities to lead, and advance their career”   The title…

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Why Past Successes Can Be a Decision-Making Trap

March 20, 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. One of the most common habits that leads to terrible decisions is remaining…

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How to Ask Team Newcomers to Tackle Tough Problems

March 19, 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. * * * It’s easy to think of newcomers as burdens: they need…

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The Membership Economy: A book review by Bob Morris

March 19, 2015

The Membership Economy: Find Your Super Users, Master the Forever Transaction, and Build Recurring Revenue Robbie Kellman Baxter McGraw-Hill (2015) How to create a community of “customer evangelists” who thrive in the Membership Economy The term “customer evangelist” was introduced…

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The Cost of Paying Attention

March 19, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Matthew B. Crawford for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * A few years ago, in…

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Too Big to Ignore: A book review by Bob Morris

March 18, 2015

Too Big to Ignore: The Business Case for Big Data (Wiley and SAS Business Series) Phil Simon John Wiley & Sons (2015) “Before we demand more of our data, we need to demand more of ourselves.” Nate Silver First of…

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Walter Isaacson on Steve Jobs’ Favorite Product: The Apple Team

March 18, 2015

In this brief video for bigthink.com, biographer Walter Isaacson discusses how Steve Jobs may have had a prickly personality, but his ability to build loyal and innovative teams was one of his greater talents. Walter Isaacson is a renowned biographer,…

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Changing the Performance Management Mindset

March 18, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Sebastian Bailey for Talent Management magazine. He suggests that, as ‘rank and yank’ dominates the debate, talent leaders would be wise to focus the discussion on eliminating traditional manager biases and…

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The funniest TED Talks

March 17, 2015

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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Mike Paton: An interview by Bob Morris

March 17, 2015

Mike Paton has spent a lifetime learning from and sharing with entrepreneurs. The product of an entrepreneurial household, he cut his teeth in banking before running (or helping run) four small, growing companies. For the last seven years, he’s been…

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