Month: September 2020
In Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future, Margaret Hefferman suggests that experiments is how we learn everything. “We try to stand up, fall over, recalibrate, and next time find we can teeter for a second or two. Keep at it…
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Here is an excerpt from another “classic” article written by John P. Kotter 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…
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Philanthropy Revolution: How to inspire donors, build relationships, and make a difference Lisa Greer & Larissa Kostoff HarperCollins (September 2020) How and why minor adjustments cannot accommodate major changes in the world of philanthropy In this volume, written in collaboration…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Steve Glaveski 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,…
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The Grit Factor: Courage, Resilience, and Leadership in the Most Male-Dominated Organization in the World Shannon Huffman Polson Harvard Business Review Press (September 2010) How to find “the place where the world needs you most,” where you can be the…
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Here is an excerpt from an article by Rohit Bhattacharya that is featured at the ScoopWhoop Media website. The etymology of “invention” is early 15c., invencioun, “finding or discovering of something,” from Old French invencion (13c.) and directly from Latin…
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Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future Margaret Hefferman Avid Reader Press (September 2020) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison I selected the Edison assertion to serve as the title of this brief commentary because it helps us to understand…
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Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better Clive Thompson The Penguin Press (2014) How and why humans and technology can achieve much more when their respective strengths are in creative collaboration Clive Thompson poses…
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The quest to understand something new is a key factor to building the resilience necessary to weather setbacks and navigate life’s volatility. Here is an excerpt from an article about that by Kerry Hannon. To read the complete article,…
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From there to here: 50 years of thinking on the social responsibility of business
Milton Friedman’s pathbreaking essay on corporate purpose was published on September 13, 1970. How much has management thinking evolved? Check out one response in this excerpt from an article written for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company.…
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