Month: June 2018

Get Honest Feedback About the Traits That Will Hurt Your Career

June 20, 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 leaders have a fatal flaw: a weakness so pronounced…

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The Secrets of Great Teamwork

June 20, 2018

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Martine Haas and Mark Mortensen 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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Build an A Team: A book review by Bob Morris

June 19, 2018

Build an A Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve Whitney Johnson Harvard Business School Press (May 2018) “Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”…

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Ten red flags signaling your analytics program will fail

June 19, 2018

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Oliver Fleming, Tim Fountaine, Nicolaus Henke, and Tamim Saleh for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about…

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The Right Way to Respond to Negative Feedback

June 19, 2018

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tasha Eurich 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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My Father’s Business: A book review by Bob Morris

June 18, 2018

My Father’s Business: The Small-Town Values That Built Dollar General into a Billion-Dollar Company Cal Turner Jr. with Rob Simbeck Center Street (May 2018) How an “acorn” in Scottsville, Kentucky, in 1919 became an “oak tree” with more than 16,000…

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5 Ways to Project Confidence in Front of an Audience

June 18, 2018

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Carmine Gallo 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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Developing better change leaders

June 17, 2018

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Aaron De Smet, Johanne Lavoie     and Elizabeth Schwartz Hioe for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the…

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Help Your Colleagues Process Strong Emotions

June 17, 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. * * * Sometimes a colleague has a strong emotional reaction to something,…

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Abraham Lincoln & Loneliness: A Profile

June 16, 2018

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Nancy Koehn for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. In Forged in Crisis, she offers a brilliant discussion of five quite remarkable people, each of whom is indeed a…

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