Month: April 2015

Dorie Clark on How to Stand Out: An interview by Bob Morris

April 6, 2015

Dorie Clark is the author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013) and Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It (Portfolio/Penguin, 2015). A former presidential campaign…

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Five Tech Trends That Will Rewire Business in 2015

April 5, 2015

Deloitte’s annual Tech Trends reports examine the ever-evolving technology landscape and those trends that have the potential to transform business, government, and society. Written from the perspective of the CIO, these reports explore technology trends that have the opportunity to…

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Why It Really Is Important to Spend More Time Testing Your New Ideas

April 5, 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. * * * If you want a way to quickly transform your organization’s…

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The Power of Lists

April 4, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jac Fitz-enz for Talent Management magazine. He explains how and why lists have power to drive employees to action, whether it’s to solve a problem or make the workplace a little…

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Why Some Teams Are Smarter Than Others

April 4, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Anita Woolley, Thomas W. Malone, and Christopher F. Chabris for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out other resources, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration…

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The Steve Jobs most people did not know…until now

April 3, 2015

I have just read and am now in the process of re-reading Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader, co-authored by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli and published by Crown Business (March 2015). Although…

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Confronting Capitalism: A book review by Bob Morris

April 3, 2015

Confronting Capitalism: Real Solutions for a Troubled Economic System Philip Kotler AMACOM (2015) “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Derek Bok In my opinion, Phil Kotler is the world’s preeminent authority on how to create or increase demand…

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Invaluable Life Lessons from the Crucible of Human Experience

April 3, 2015

I am grateful to Erik Michielsen for letting me know about Capture Your Flag and its Near Peer resources. Briefly, a Near Peer is someone who has recently been through a situation you are facing now. Their story is your…

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The HEAD Game: A book review by Bob Morris

April 2, 2015

The HEAD Game: High-Efficiency Analytic Decision Making and the Art of Solving Complex Problems Quickly Philip Mudd Liveright Publishing Company/A Division of W.W. Norton & Company (2015) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but…

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Why Group Brainstorming Is a Waste of Time

April 2, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic 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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