Month: August 2015
Ralph Young is a history professor at Temple University. He has done extensive research in the history of protest movements, terrorist organizations, and 17th-century Puritanism. He is the author of Dissent: The History of an American Idea, a narrative history…
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We Are Market Basket: The Story of the Unlikely Grassroots Movement That Saved a Beloved Business Daniel Korshun and Grant Welker AMACOM (2015) The Market Basket story “forces us to rethink who really owns a company and who gets to…
Read MoreHere is a brief excerpt from an article written by Marc de Jong and Menno van Dijk for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. They explain how and why, in a disruptive age, established business models are under…
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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 Joel S. Marcus chief executive…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Mona Patel 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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Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic Thinking Paul Butler, John Manfredi, and Peter Klein McGraw-Hill (2015) The power of a new approach to results-driven, high-impact strategic thinking Paul Butler, John Manfredi, and Peter Klein introduce and thoroughly explain…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Eric Knight, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, and Barbara Mittleman for MIT Sloan Management Review. They explain why it’s not easy for stakeholders with widely varying interests to collaborate effectively in a consortium. The…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall 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…
Read MoreHere is an excerpt from an article written by Paula S. Larson for Talent Management magazine. She is convinced that firms must assess where they are, where they are going, and then measure the gap between present and future state. To read the complete article, check…
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Wanted: Chief Ignorance Officer
Here is an excerpt from an article written by David Gray for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. It first appeared in the November 2003 issue and, if anything, makes even more and better sense now than it…
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