Month: January 2018

Make Civility the Norm on Your Team

January 16, 2018

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, please…

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The Startup Way: A book review by Bob Morris

January 16, 2018

The Startup Way: How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth Eric Ries Currency/An imprint of the Crown Publishing Group (October 2017) How managers in a VUCA world become more adaptive, more humane, more rigorous,…

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10 Facts You May Not Know About Martin Luther King Jr.

January 15, 2018

  Here is an excerpt from an article by Christopher Klein that is featured at history.com. To read the complete article and check out other resources, please click here. * * * Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) was a Baptist…

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McKinsey Quarterly: The year’s most popular articles on leadership

January 15, 2018

Here is an excerpt from an article written by the McKinsey Quarterly‘s editors, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up for email alerts, please click here.…

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Perfection

January 14, 2018

In Morten Hansen‘s latest book, Great at Work, he explains “how top performers do less, work better, and achieve more.” Consider this brief passage in which he discusses perfection: “Occam’s razor at work doesn’t say you should simplify all the way to one.…

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Which of Your Strengths Are You Overusing?

January 14, 2018

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. * * * Most leaders have strengths that make them distinctive. But those…

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Type R: A book review by Bob Morris

January 13, 2018

Type R: Transformative Resilience for Thriving in a Turbulent World Ama Marston and Stephanie Marston PublicAffairs (January 2018) How and why “we must meet change head-on [and] use stress and adversity to open the door to new opportunities” Ama Marston…

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McKinsey Quarterly: The year’s most popular articles on analytics (2017)

January 13, 2018

Here is an excerpt from an article written by the editors of the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * *…

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What Can You Delegate Today?

January 12, 2018

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. * * * Many of us know the benefits of delegation: It helps…

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What Works for Women at Work: A book review by Bob Morris

January 12, 2018

What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know Joan C. Williams and Rachel Dempsey New York University Press What working women need to know and how to use that knowledge to achieve personal growth and…

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