Month: January 2020

The five things sales-growth winners do to invest in their people

January 11, 2020

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Matt Deimund, Michael Drory, Daniel Law, and Maria Valdivieso for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the…

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Rosabeth Moss Kanter on how to attack a castle

January 10, 2020

In Think Outside the Building, Rosabeth Moss Kanter explains how advanced leaders can change the world one smart innovation at a time. Kanter introduces an especially appropriate extended metaphor: “Castles are representations of institutions…[they] are any set of institutional structures…

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Work Tribes: A book review by Bob Morris

January 10, 2020

Work Tribes: The Surprising Secret to Breakthrough Performance, Astonishing Results, and Keeping Teams Together Shawn Murphy HarperCollins Leadership (August 2019) How and why our “human needs can transform the way we work and how we lead people” As I worked…

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Managing a Defiant Employee

January 10, 2020

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. *     *     * Some of the hardest employees to manage are people…

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The Secrets of Jewish Genius

January 9, 2020

Albert Einstein at home in Princeton, N.J.Credit…Getty Images According to Bret Stephens in his article for The New York Times, it’s not about having higher I.Q.s. To read the complete article, check out others, and ldearn about deep discount subscriptions,…

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Innovating for all: How CIOs can leverage diverse teams to foster innovation and ethical tech Diversity and Inclusion in Tech

January 9, 2020

Here is a brief excerpt from a In this report, the fourth in Deloitte Consulting’s Diversity and Inclusion in Tech series. It focuses on the work of Kavitha Prabhakar, Kristi Lamar, and Anjali Shaikh. * * * As companies innovate with…

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Are you a growth leader? The seven beliefs and behaviors that growth leaders share

January 8, 2020

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Biljana Cvetanovski, Eric Hazan, Jesko Perrey, and Dennis Spillecke for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the…

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Why Employees Need Both Recognition and Appreciation

January 8, 2020

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Mike Robbins 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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One of the Most Fascinating Word Origins in the English Language: Dunce

January 7, 2020

Etymology – the study of word origins – is a fantastically interesting discipline that yields some incredible facts about where the hugely diverse array of words that make up the English language come from. Whether you’re a native speaker or…

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The ten most popular McKinsey Quarterly articles in 2019

January 7, 2020

The ten most popular McKinsey.com pieces of the last year, taken from the hundreds of articles, reports, blog posts, and podcasts that were published in 2019, reflect the hopes and anxieties of business leaders in every sector: hope for a…

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