Month: June 2020
In addition to book reviews, interviews, and commentaries, I also re-read several classics each calendar year. My perennials include Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone, Shakespeare’s four mature tragedies (Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth), Ecclesiastes (Old Testament) and St. Paul’s…
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Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light: 100 Art Writings 1988-2018 Peter Schjeldahl, Edited with an Introduction by Jarrett Earnest Abrams Press (June 2020) “A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.” Peter Schjeldahl With…
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Great Place to Work, the global authority on workplace culture, determined the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For™ list and the Fortune Best Big Companies to Work For list by conducting America’s largest ongoing annual workforce study, representing more…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Amos Winter and Vijay Govindarajan 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…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Benjamin Cheatham, Alex Cosmas, Nehal Mehta, and Dhruv Shah for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Melvin Smith, Ellen Van Oosten,, and Richard E. Boyatzis,for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Strategy (Vol.2) Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (March 2020) “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” Michael Porter: This book is a long-overdue companion to a volume first published in 2011…
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“What’s the big deal about design thinking?” You’ve probably asked that question, one to which Jeanne Liedtka responds in a brilliant article she wrote for Harvard Business Review. * * * Because design thinking is a social technology, it has…
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It was a brilliant idea to have The New York Times create a series of interviews of a wide range of celebrities who were allowed to have “the last word” before those who compose obituaries go to work. The…
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Here is an excerpt from another “classic” article written by David Kirk 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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