Month: June 2019

Step-by-step overview of what an agile marketing team does

June 19, 2019

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by David Edelman, Jason Heller, Spittaels and Steven for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm,…

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The “three rules of snakes”

June 18, 2019

In What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture, Ben Horowitz shares this anecdote from his years with the Netscape organization. After Jim Barksdale became the new CEO, he introduced his way of thinking this…

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The Presidents: A book review by Bob Morris

June 18, 2019

The Presidents: Noted Historians Rank America’s Best–and Worst–Chief Executives Brian Lamb and Susan Swain, with special contributions by Douglas Brinkley, Edna Greene Medford, and Richard Norton Smith PublicAffairs (April 2019) Whatever the specific rankings, here is an abundance of valuable…

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Connect the Dots to See Where Trump’s Taking Us

June 17, 2019

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Thomas L. Friedman for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain information about deep-discount subscription rates, please click here. Credit: Doug Mills/The New York…

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Scaling Culture in Fast-Growing Companies

June 17, 2019

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jordana Valencia 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 click…

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The British Are Coming: A book review by Bob Morris

June 16, 2019

The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy) Rick Atkinson Henry Holt & Company (May 2019) Another masterpiece to be savored and cherished I read and reviewed Rick Atkinson’s Liberation Trilogy — An…

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Overlooked No More: Barbara Johns, Who Defied Segregation in Schools

June 16, 2019

Above: Barbara Johns in a high school graduation photo from 1952. Credit via Moton Museum Here is another in a series of long overdue obituaries that have finally appeared in The New York Times. To this is great newspaper’s great…

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Three keys to faster, better decisions

June 15, 2019

  Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Aaron De Smet, Gregor Jost, and Leigh Weiss for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about…

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Who was Dr. Seuss?

June 15, 2019

In his recently published biography, Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination, Brian Jay Jones shares a wealth of information and insights about a culural icon. As you may not already know about Geisel: 1904:…

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How to respond to a crisis

June 14, 2019

  When Anne Mulcahy was selected by the Xerox board of directors in 2001 to serve as the company’s new president and CEO, she contacted a number of people requesting advice as she began to assume her new duties. When…

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