Month: June 2016

Recover from Rejection by Shifting Your Mindset

June 16, 2016

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. * * * Rejection is a universal (and universally disliked) experience, but it’s…

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Monetizing Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

June 15, 2016

Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price Madhavan Ramanujam and Georg Tacke John Wiley & Sons (June 2016) How monetizing the design of new or improved products and/or services will help create or increase demand for…

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Ahead of the curve: The future of performance management

June 15, 2016

Here is a brief excerpt from another brilliant article, in this instance co-authored by by Boris Ewenstein, Bryan Hancock, and Asmus Komm, for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources,…

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Shirley Ann Jackson (president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) in “The Corner Office”

June 14, 2016

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 Shirley Ann Jackson, president of…

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The Creator’s Code: A book review by Bob Morris

June 14, 2016

The Creator’s Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs Amy Wilkinson Simon & Schuster (2015) Here are timeless and timely insights that illuminate “fundamental approaches to the act of creation” The term “code” with regard to individuals is comparable…

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Myths and Misconceptions about Innovation

June 13, 2016

In Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price , Madhavan Ramanujam and Georg Tacke assert: “The most successful product innovators we know start by determining what the customer values [verb] and what they are willing to…

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Delivering on Digital: A book review by Bob Morris

June 13, 2016

Delivering on Digital: The Innovators and Technologies That Are Transforming Government William D. Eggers RosettaBooks (June 2016) How to attract, hire, train, and then retain the talent for digital thinking that can transform any organization This book’s title refers to…

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Bill Capodagli on “The Disney Way”: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

June 12, 2016

Bill Capodagli (pronounced Cap o die) co-authored one of Fortune magazine’s “Best Business Books of 1999,”The Disney Way: Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company. Prior to co-founding Capodagli Jackson Consulting in 1993, Bill held managerial positions at…

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The Founder’s Mentality: A book review by Bob Morris

June 12, 2016

The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth Chris Zook and James Allen Harvard Business Review Press (June 2016) How to avoid or resolve three organizational crises that can occur after start-up and early-growth phases In 1865,…

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Jane Rosenthal (a founder of the Tribeca Film Festival and executive chairwoman of Tribeca Enterprises) in “The Corner Office”

June 11, 2016

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 Jane Rosenthal, a founder of…

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