Month: November 2016

How to get the greatest value from a MOOC

November 15, 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. * * * To get the most from a MOOC, a massive open…

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Communication: Five Perilous Assumptions

November 14, 2016

  1. That a message sent is received. 2. That the received message’s intended meaning is understood. 3. That the recipient understands the intended meaning and cares. 4. That the recipient who cares will take appropriate action. 5. That the…

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The Leadership Behavior That’s Most Important to Employees

November 14, 2016

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Christine Porath 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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Bernhard Schroeder on “Simply Brilliant”: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

November 13, 2016

Bernhard Schroeder is Director of the Lavin Entrepreneurship Center Programs and oversees all of the center’s undergraduate and graduate internship programs. He is a part-time Clinical Faculty, Entrepreneurship within the College of Business Administration at San Diego State University. Bern…

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Deborah Lee James (Secretary of the U.S. Air Force) in “The Corner Office”

November 13, 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 Deborah Lee James, Secretary of…

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The “Field of Dreams Syndrome”

November 12, 2016

Years ago, Henry Ford questioned the value of consumer feedback: “They’ll say they want faster horses.” More recently, Steve Jobs observed, “It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you…

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The Unique Value of the “T-Shaped Approach” to Personal Success

November 12, 2016

In The Mosaic Principle: The Six Dimensions of a Remarkable Life and Career published by PublicAffairs (November 2016), Nick Lovegrove observes: “The evidence shows that you are more likely to be successful if your broader experience is underpinned and even…

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Affirmations of Having a Values-Driven Life and Career

November 11, 2016

The shabby U.S. presidential campaign in 2016 has reminded me again of how important a values-driven life and career are unless those values demonstrate what Hannah Arendt so aptly characterizes as “the banality of evil.” Here are a few thought-provoking…

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How IT can drive agile development

November 11, 2016

Here’s a simple idea: update your operating model to be able to build small, self-contained teams that create change quickly and efficiently. I urge you to check out brief excerpt from a podcast transcript created for the McKinsey Quarterly, published…

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The Perils of Personal Depth

November 10, 2016

In The Mosaic Principle: The Six Dimensions of a Remarkable Life and Career published by PublicAffairs (November 2016), Nick Lovegrove observes that “each of us does have a choice: greater breadth or greater depth. In today’s world, there are intensifying…

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