Month: March 2015

Watch This: What Most Schools Don’t Teach

March 13, 2015

A SLAM DUNK! Learn about a new “superpower” that isn’t being taught in 90% of US schools. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, will.i.am, Chris Bosh, Jack Dorsey, Tony Hsieh, Drew Houston, Gabe Newell, Ruchi Sanghvi, and Elena offer inspiring words for…

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Gathering the Glass Ceiling Data

March 12, 2015

Here is an excerpt from Amy Whyte’s interview of Evelyn Orr for Talent Management magazine. It’s not enough to talk about the barriers facing women in the workplace. That’s why Korn Ferry’s Evelyn Orr researches the hard facts and puts…

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Memorable quotations from the sports world

March 12, 2015

Years ago, Joe Thiesman (then QB of the Washington Redskins) was angered when someone referred to “dumb jocks.” His earnest response: “We can’t all be Fred Einstein.” True. But the sports world can also generate some thoughtful observations. Here are…

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How to Set Clear Goals When You Ask Employees to Innovate

March 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. * * * Sometimes leaders fail to establish guidelines for innovation because they…

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Sarah Fister Gale on “Luddites Need Not Apply”

March 11, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Sarah Fister Gale for Talent Management magazine. She explains why adoption of predictive analytics in talent management has been slow, but a few companies have shown how it can positively influence…

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Mind Change: A book review by Bob Morris

March 11, 2015

Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains Susan A. Greenfield Random House (2015) A brilliant examination of “what is surely the most far reaching and exciting challenge of our time.” If the mind is what…

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Accelerating Projects by Encouraging Help

March 11, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article co-authored by Fabian J. Sting, Christoph H. Loch, and Dirk Stempfhuber for MIT Sloan Management Review. To keep product development projects on schedule, they explain why establishing psychological safety and promoting cooperative…

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Michael Schrage: An interview by Bob Morris

March 10, 2015

Michael Schrage is a Research Fellow at the MIT Center for Digital Business and a Visiting Fellow at Imperial College’s Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He examines the various roles of models, prototypes, and simulations as collaborative media for innovation…

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Wiser: A book review by Bob Mofrris

March 10, 2015

Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter Cass R. Sunstein and Reid Hastie Harvard Business Review Press 2014) How to separate, implement, and optimize the divergent and convergent stages of every problem-solving process As I began to read this…

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Walter Isaacson on Alan Turing and the Imitation Game

March 10, 2015

In this brief video for bigthink.com biographer Walter Isaacson compares Alan Turing’s computing philosophy with that of Ada Lovelace a hundred years prior. Turing, the subject of the new film The Imitation Game, is also featured prominently in Isaacson’s new…

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