Month: September 2019

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Reinventing HR : A book review by Bob Morris

September 13, 2019

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Reinventing HR HBR Editors and Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (June 2019) How to take a management approach that drives employee engagement and high performance This is one in a series of volumes that…

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Creating the Best Workplace on Earth

September 13, 2019

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones 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…

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Rare Breed: A book review by Bob Morris

September 12, 2019

Rare Breed: A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Different Sunny Bonnell and Ashleigh Hansberger HarperOne/An imprint of HarperCollins (September 2019) How and why being “defiant, dangerous, and different is a gift” Helen Keller once suggested, “Life is…

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For a successful transformation, start by sprinting

September 12, 2019

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Patrick Guggenberger and Patrick Simon for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm, obtain subscription…

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Make Sure Your Employees Have Time and Space to Focus

September 11, 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. *     *     * Between scanning our inboxes, checking our phones, and…

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The “secret sauce” of Google’s idea generation

September 11, 2019

In Reinventing the Organization, Arthur Yeung and Dave Ulrich explain “how companies can deliver radically greater value in fast-changing markets.” They focus on several companies, including Amazon, Facebook, and Google, in the U.S.; Alibaba, Huawei, and Tencent in China; and…

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9 Awesome facts about bird migration

September 10, 2019

The Bar-headed geese migrate over the Himalayas at heights of over five miles above sea level. Photo Credit: Diliff/CC BY-SA 3.0 Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Jhaneel Lockhart for the Audubon Society. To read the complete…

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8 Ways Leaders Delegate Successfully

September 10, 2019

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Deborah Grayson Riegel 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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Make, Think, Imagine: A book review by Bob Morris

September 9, 2019

Make, Think, Imagine: Engineering the Future of the Organization John Browne Pegasus Brooks (May 2019) John Browne: How and why “all progress starts with a dream: a vision of a better world.” Very few people complete a formal education in…

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To Come Up with New Ideas, Get Out of the Office

September 9, 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. *     *     * Every leader needs to come up with ideas that…

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