Month: May 2020

Dwight Eisenhower: Lessons from the ‘balancer in chief’

May 19, 2020

Here is an excerpt from an interview of William I. Hitchcock featured by the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up for email alerts,…

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The Three Box Solution Playbook: A book review by Bob Morris

May 18, 2020

Alexandra The Three Box Solution Playbook: Tools and Tactics for Creating Your Company’s Strategy Vijay Govindarajan and Manish Tangri Harvard Business Review Press (May 2020) “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”  Leonardo da Vinci This is a companion to The Three-Box…

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Design Your Meeting Agenda Around Questions

May 18, 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. *     *     * A good agenda is the first step to any…

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Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire: A book review by Bob Morris

May 17, 2020

Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire  Rebecca Henderson Public Affairs (April 2020) Three problems: massive environmental degradation, economic ineqality, and institutional collapse As Rebecca Henderson explains, this book “is the result of a fifteen-year exploration of why and how…

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Focus Your Writing with These 3 Tips

May 17, 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. *     *     * Writing under deadline pressure is always a challenge, but…

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Scott Dinsmore on how to find work you love

May 16, 2020

  Teresa Amabile and Steve Jobs are among those who urge people to do what they love because what they love most is probably what they do best. Scott Dinsmore agrees. He quit a job that made him miserable, and…

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Corporate Purpose: Shifting from why to how

May 16, 2020

Here is an excerpt from an article written as a collaborative effort  for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up for email alerts,…

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HBR Guide to Performance Management: A book review by Bob Morris

May 15, 2020

HBR Guide to Performance Management HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (July 2017) Here is a brilliant introduction to the essential elements of performance management As you probably know already, most of the volumes in the “HBR Guide to” series…

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Getting the next phase of remote learning right in higher education

May 15, 2020

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Christine Heitz, Martha Laboissiere, Saurabh Sanghvi, and Jimmy Sarakatsannis for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm,…

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Why not another WPA in the 2020s?

May 14, 2020

  The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an American New Deal agency, employing millions of job-seekers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. It was established on May 6, 1935, by Executive Order…

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