Month: October 2016

Ken Marlin on “The Marine Corps Way”: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

October 10, 2016

Ken Marlin is Managing Partner and Founder of Marlin & Associates. For more than 30 years, He has advised scores of U.S. and international middle-market technology enabled firms on the best ways to buy, sell, grow and thrive. Between 1970…

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Ten More of the Best Films About the Business World

October 9, 2016

The International Movie Data Base (IMDb) is probably the best single source for information about films and television programs. The links provided in this post are to IMD. In my opinion, these are ten more of the best films from…

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Cindy Whitehead (chief executive officer of the Pink Ceiling) in “The Corner Office”

October 9, 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 Cindy Whitehead, chief executive officer…

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Don Yaeger on “Great Teams”: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

October 8, 2016

Don Yaeger is a nationally acclaimed inspirational speaker, longtime Associate Editor of Sports Illustrated and author of 25 books, nine of which have become New York Times best sellers. He began his career at the San Antonio (TX) Light and…

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

October 8, 2016

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Chris Zook 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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Competing Against the Future: A book review by Bob Morris

October 7, 2016

Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan HarperBusiness/An imprint of HarperCollins (October 2016) How and why you really can create products and services that you know,…

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Victor Ho ( C.E.O. of FiveStars) in “The Corner Office”

October 7, 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 Victor Ho, a customer loyalty…

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Help Your Team Through Times of Crisis

October 6, 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. * * * National tragedies — mass shootings, hurricanes, suicide bombers — affect…

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Dan Negroni on “Chasing Relevance”: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

October 5, 2016

Dan Negroni founded  launchbox to help businesses unleash the creativity and potential of today’s new Gen Y workforce. He is a CEO coach, consultant, keynote speaker, and chief launch officer for today’s critical cross-generational issues, bridging the gap between managers and…

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“We are many parts….”

October 5, 2016

Many valuable business lessons can be obtained from non-business sources. For example, consider this passage from the King James Version of St Paul’s “First Letters to Corinthians,” Passages 12-14: “For as the body is one, and hath many members, and…

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