Month: November 2016

How to use content marketing to build a massive audience and create a radically successful business

November 20, 2016

In Content Inc. Joe Polizzi introduces a six-step process by which to use content marketing to build massive audiences and create a radically successful business. Briefly, “By concentrating on building an audience first and defining products and services second, an…

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The New Alpha: A book review by Bob Morris

November 19, 2016

The New Alpha: Join the Rising Movement of Influencers and Changemakers Who Are Redefining Leadership Danielle Harlan McGraw-Hill Education (September 2016) How and why New Alpha leaders focus on developing their competencies across three critical domains After completing their formal…

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How to Assess if You’re Working with Quality Data

November 19, 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. * * * You’ve heard the phrase “garbage in, garbage out.” Bad data…

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Defining Moments: A book review by Bob Morris

November 18, 2016

Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right Joseph L. Badaracco Harvard Business Review Press (1997) How to make decisions that could – and probably will — reveal a manager’s basic values and, in some cases, those of…

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How da Vinci-Like Thinking Helps You Imagine Future Success

November 18, 2016

In an article published by FastCompany magazine in 2013, Faisul Hogue explains how and why da Vinci’s belief that “everything connects” helped make him the 15th-century Italian Renaissance man we all admire today. And it was another legendary thinker who…

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The Mosaic Principle: A book review by Bob Morris

November 17, 2016

The Mosaic Principle: The Six Dimensions of a Remarkable Life and Career Nick Lovegrove PublicAffairs (November 2016) “Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes.” Walt Whitman I was reminded of Whitman’s…

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How to Use Celebrations to Mark Important Moments at Work

November 17, 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. * * * People have long used ceremonies — bar mitzvahs, baptisms, weddings,…

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Stephanie Mead and Steven Stowell on “The Art of Strategic Leadership”: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

November 16, 2016

Stephanie S. Mead, MBA, is the co-author of five books, including The Art of Strategic Leadership: How Leaders at All Levels Prepare Themselves, Their Teams, and Organizations for the Future, and has also published many shorter works on the topics…

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Mihaly Csiksgentmihalyi on Ten Paradoxical Traits of Highly Creative People

November 16, 2016

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Mihaly Csiksgentmihalyi (pronounced me-HIGH chick-sent-me-HIGH-ee) that appeared in Psychology Today magazine (2016). magazine in 2013. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. *…

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Reorg: A book review by Bob Morris

November 15, 2016

Reorg: How to Get It Right Stephen Heidari-Robinson and Suzanne Heywood Harvard Business Review Press (November 2016) How to unlock latent value, especially in a rapidly changing competitive environment I recall reading somewhere that the TI-class supertanker ships must travel…

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