Month: April 2017

How to create a competitive edge for yourself

April 10, 2017

In Elite Minds, Stan Beecham shares a number of quotations that indicate “how winners think differently.” Here are ten: “If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days…

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The Attention Merchants: A book review by Bob Morris

April 10, 2017

The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads Tim Wu Alfred A. Knopf /Penguin Random House (2016) How and why “attention makers” have converted our attention into revenue “and radically shape how our lives are lived” As…

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High Noon: A book review by Bob Morris

April 9, 2017

High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic Glenn Frankel Bloomsbury (February 2017) Hunting witches in Hollywood: 1945-1960 As I often do, I read this book in combination with another, in this instance Noah Isenberg’s We’ll…

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“What got you here won’t get you there.” Marshall Goldsmith

April 9, 2017

Goldsmith’s insight serves as the title of one of his most thoughtful books and I presume to add that what got you here won’t even allow you to remain here, no matter whatever and wherever “here” and “there” may be.…

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Mike Ettling (CEO of SAP SuccessFactors) in “The Corner Office”

April 8, 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 Mike Ettling , president of…

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Make Time for Strategic Thinking Every Day

April 8, 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 believe that only senior executives need to…

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Charles Handy on the four basic forms of management

April 7, 2017

In Gods of Management, Charles Handy identifies and examines what have been characterized as “the four basic forms of management.” Here they are the club culture (Zeus), based on formal power and influence; the role culture (Apollo), based on logic…

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Time for a new gender-equality playbook

April 7, 2017

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Dominic Barton and Lareina Yee for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm, obtain subscription information,…

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The Social Life of Information: A book review by Bob Morris

April 6, 2017

The Social Life of Information John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid Harvard Business Review Press (March 2017) How and why “the ability of information and its technologies [continue] to change the social world for the better” This is an updated…

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The Five Personalities of Innovators: Which One Are You?

April 6, 2017

Here is an excerpt from another outstanding article featured by Forbes magazine’s website and written by Brenna Sniderman. To read the complete article, check out other resources, sign up for free email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here.…

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