Month: February 2017

Sense & Respond: A book review by Bob Morris

February 17, 2017

Sense & Respond: How Successful Organizations Listen to Customers and Create New Products Continuously Jeff Gothelp and Josh Seiden Harvard Business Review Press (February 2017) Engage an organization in a two-way conversation with its market(s) and customers, integrated at all…

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The Best Companies Don’t Have More Stars — They Cluster Them Together

February 16, 2017

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Michael Mankins for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please…

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Joe Pulizzi on the Power of Content Marketing: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

February 16, 2017

Joe Pulizzi is an entrepreneur, speaker, author, podcaster, father and lover of all things orange. He’s the founder of multiple startups, including the Content Marketing Institute (CMI), the leading content marketing educational resource for enterprise brands, recognized as the fastest…

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8 Ways to Read (a Lot) More Books This Year

February 15, 2017

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Neil Pasricha for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please…

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Why Combine Your Customer and Employee Feedback Systems?

February 15, 2017

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. I presume to include a prefatory comment: All of the major research studies…

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Excellent advice from Warren Buffett on habits, for better or worse

February 14, 2017

In an article that appeared in Forbes magazine, Warren Buffett has this to say about habits: “At my age I can’t change my habits. I’m stuck. But you will have the habits twenty years from now that you decide to…

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Tien Tzuo (CEO of Zora) in “The Corner Office”

February 14, 2017

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 Tien Tzuo, CEO of Zora,…

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Using rivalry to spur innovation

February 14, 2017

  Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Bernard T. Ferrari and Jessica Goethals for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company (2010). They explain how productive rivalry stimulated artistic innovation during the Renaissance, and according…

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Paradigmatic Considerations

February 13, 2017

Thomas Kuhn is generally credited with introducing the concepts of paradigms and paradigm shiftshis classic work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, first published in 1962. According to Kuhn, Paradigms are “universally recognized scientific achievements that, for a time, provide model…

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3 Ways to Create a Culture of Innovation

February 13, 2017

  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. * * * If you want your employees to be more creative…

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