Commentaries

Chip Heath’s six basic traits of sticky ideas

January 8, 2022

Chip Heath’s research suggests that sticky ideas share six basic traits. • Simplicity. Messages are most memorable if they are short and deep. Glib sound bites are short, but they don’t last. Proverbs such as the golden rule are short…

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Why People Lose Motivation — and What Managers Can Do to Help

January 8, 2022

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Dan Cable 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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Motivating Employees Is Not About Carrots or Sticks

January 7, 2022

Here is a brief article written by Lisa Lai 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. Credit: …

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Jim Barksdale’s “Three Rules of Snakes”

January 6, 2022

In What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture, Ben Horowitz shares this anecdote from his years with the Netscape organization. After Jim Barksdale became the new CEO, he introduced his way of thinking this way: “We have…

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Top 10 Most Popular Articles in The McKinsey Quarterly in 2021

January 5, 2022

Here are the first five articles. To check out any/all of the ten, please click here. * * * Let’s try this again: Because of a technical mishap, you may have received a version of this email that featured a…

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Feedback Isn’t Enough to Help Your Employees Grow

January 4, 2022

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Peter Bregman and Howie Jacobson 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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Wright is seldom wrong: Part 1

January 3, 2022

Here is another selection of insights (and outsights) from a very observant man, Steven Wright. o When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child. o I went…

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It’s that time again….

December 19, 2021

Every year since 1999 when I began to blog, I have taken a two-week break in mid-December to concentrate on celebrating the holiday season with family members and other loved ones. It’s that time again…. Best wishes to you and…

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Why Criticism Is Good for Creativity

December 17, 2021

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Roberto Verganti and Don Norman 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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3 Common Fallacies About Creativity

December 17, 2021

Here is an excerpt from an article written byby Anu Arora, Pronita Mehrotra, and Sandeep Krishnamurthy 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…

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