Month: September 2015
Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano HarperBusiness/An Imprint of HarperCollins (2015) Valuable lessons to be learned from those who “paved an extraordinary path as the first…
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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. * * * People with low emotional intelligence, also known as EQ, are…
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The Creator’s Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs Amy Wilkinson Simon & Schuster (2015) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Henry Ford The term “gazelle” refers to the classic entrepreneur of myth…
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Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Warren Bennis and Robert J. Thomas, published in the September 2002 issue of Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription…
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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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Grit to Great: How Perseverance, Passion, and Pluck Take You from Ordinary to Extraordinary Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval Crown Business (2015) “Champions get up when they can’t.” Jack Dempsey Angela Lee Duckworth is among the sources that Linda…
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Here are ten of my favorite Steve Jobs quotations: o Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And…
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The Challenger Customer: Selling to the Hidden Influencer Who Can Multiply Your Results Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson, Pat Spenner, and Nick Toman Portfolio/Penguin Random House (September 2015) How re-writing the rules enables “the best companies to connect with current customers,…
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Decoding the Workplace: 50 Keys to Understanding People in Organizations John Ballard Praeger/An Imprint of ABC-CLO A brilliant explanation of why not all messages sent are received and not all messages received are understood Perhaps the single greatest challenge that…
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Dean Abbott on Applied Predictive Analytics
In Applied Predictive Analytics, Dean Abbott describes the predictive modeling process from the perspective of a practitioner rather than a theoretician. “Predictive analytics is both science and art…This book describes what I would be telling you if you were looking…
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