Month: March 2017

How to Manage Habits

March 16, 2017

In The Leading Brain, Friederike Fabritius and Hans Hagemann explain several ”powerful science-based strategies for achieving peak performance.” In Chapter 4, Fabritius and Hagemann offer these key points: o Our brains prefer the path of least resistance. In order to…

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Jim Collins on “the extra dimension” of great leadership.

March 15, 2017

The last time I checked, Amazon US sells 9,369 volumes whose authors discuss great leadership. Four of the best were written or co-authored by Jim Collins. As Collins explains in Good to Great, Level 5 leaders are those “who lead…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads for New Managers: A book review by Bob Morris

March 15, 2017

HBR’s 10 Must Reads for New Managers Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (February 2017) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.” Peter Drucker This is the latest…

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Steven Spielberg: A book review by Bob Morris

March 14, 2017

Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films Molly Haskell Yale University Press (January 2017) “Everything about me is in my films.” Steven Spielberg There is substantial truth in Steven Spielberg’s observation, as Molly Haskell indicates in this brief but remarkably comprehensive…

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The Wisdom of Viktor Frankl

March 14, 2017

These are among my favorite Viktor Frankl observations: To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to “be happy.” But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to “be happy.’”…

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The Essentials of Key Value Drivers

March 13, 2017

In Beyond Performance Management, Jeremy Hope and Steve Player recommend key practices to achieve superior performance. For example, how to use key value drivers as the processes and practices by which to have the greatest impact on shareholder value. “Valuation…

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William Kahn: Q&A With The Founding Father Of Engagement (Part 2)

March 13, 2017

Here is a brief excerpt from an interview of Bill Kahn by David Zinger for Halogen Software’s TalentSpace blog. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up for email alerts, please click…

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Eduardo Braun on “People First Leadership”: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

March 12, 2017

Eduardo Braun is a leadership expert, keynote speaker, and author. For more than 15 years he has traveled the globe and engaged in conversation with world-renowned management leaders, heads of state, and top academics and entrepreneurs, including personalities such as…

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The people power of transformations

March 12, 2017

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Dana Maor , Angelika Reich, and Lara Yocarini for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. They discuss a new survey whose results such suggests that, for their transformations…

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The Wit and Wisdom of Woody Allen

March 11, 2017

These are among my favorite Woody Allen observations. I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens. I failed to make the chess team because of my height. I don’t want to achieve immortality…

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