Month: October 2024

COMPLETE Billy Wilder Revisits “Sunset Boulevard”

October 31, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by David Freeman for The New Yorker (June 13, 1993). To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. *…

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Top 10 Inventions that Changed the World

October 31, 2024

Here is a portion of an article by Natalie Wolchover for the LiveScience website (July 30, 2015). To read the complete article, check out other resources, and learn more about LiveScience, please click here. * * * Here are the…

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Superintelligence: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 30, 2024

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies Nick Bostrom Oxford University Press (September 2014) This is what could be “the most important and most daunting challenge humanity has ever faced” Note: Ten years after publication, the insights in this book are even more…

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How to Develop Continuous Learners

October 30, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Wendy Tan and Joo-Seng Tan for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others,  sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here.…

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Want Collaboration? Accept — and Actively Manage — Conflict

October 29, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jeff Weiss and Jonathan Hughes 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 here. * * * Companies…

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Collective Genius: Becoming a More Humane Leader

October 28, 2024

Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation Linda Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, and Kent Lineback Harvard Business Review Press (2014) Valuable perspectives on the role of the leader in creating and then sustaining a culture within which…

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The 3 Things That Keep Companies Growing

October 27, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Chris Zook and James Allen 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 here. * * * Growth creates…

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Open Strategy: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 26, 2024

Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption from Outside the C-Suite Christian Stadler, Julia Hautz, Kurt Matzler, and Stephen Friedrich von den Eichen The MIT Press (October 2021) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go…

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Harvard Business Review Sales Management Handbook: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 25, 2024

The Harvard Business Review Sales Management Handbook: How to Lead High-Performing Sales Teams Prabhakant Sinha, Arun Shastri, and Sally E. Lorimer Harvard Business Review Press (October 2022) How effective sales management consistently achieves extraordinary results What makes this book so…

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How to Use Distraction to Your Advantage

October 24, 2024

Your scatterbrain is great when it is time to think of new ideas. But when it comes to executing those ideas? Not so much. Here is an excerpt from an article by Christian Jarrett for 99U. To read, the complete article, check…

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