Month: February 2019
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 * * * When you’re stressed out, it’s hard to decide what to…
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In Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Mostly Noisy World, Cal Newport explains how and why the impact of technological tools on most people’s personal lives “is complicated by the fact that these tools mix harm with benefits.…
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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World Simon Winchester Harper/An imprint of Harper/Collins (May 2018) A brilliant examination of the imprecise process of precision’s evolution As Simon Winchester explains, “Precision was a concept that was invented, quite deliberately,…
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Here is an excerpt from an article by Barry Jaruzelski, Robert Chwalik, and Brad Goehle for Strategy+Business, published by certain member firms of the PwC network. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. * *…
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The Simple Truths of Service: Inspired by Johnny the Bagger Ken Blanchard and Barbara A. Glanz Sourcebooks, Inc. (2017, 2018) Why and how almost anyone “can be a Johnny” The results of all of the major research studies of customer…
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In Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson explores the natural history of innovation. He offers nine lessons to be learned. Here are the first three: Lesson 1: Evolution and innovation usually happen in the realm of the adjacent…
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In The Origin of (almost) Everything, Graham Lawton and his colleagues at New Scientist explain what happened immediately after the Big Bang occurred. “Around 13.8 billion years ago matter, energy, time and space spontaneously sprang from nothing in the…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Matt Banholzer, Fabian Metzeler, and Erik Roth the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm, obtain…
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A better way to anticipate downturns
Here is a brief excerpt from a classic article written by Tim Koller 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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