Commentaries

What’s Your Power Style?

December 10, 2019

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Maggie Craddock 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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AI adoption advances, but foundational barriers remain

December 9, 2019

  Here is an excerpt from an article about a major research study, featured in the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up for…

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How to Recruit More Women to Your Company

December 9, 2019

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Sarah O’Brien 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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The 21 (plus two) “deep shifts” driving the fourth industrial revolution

December 8, 2019

In The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Klaus Schwab observes: “In the Fourth Industrial Revolution, digital connectivity enabled by software technologies is fundamentally changing society. The scale of the impact and the speed of the changes taking place have made the transformation…

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Howard Gardner on the genius of Albert Einstein

December 7, 2019

Creating Minds is one of the most enjoyable as well as one of the most informative books I have ever read. Recently, I re-read it and recommend it even more enthusiastically now. I have long admired Howard Gardner’s research on…

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On Investments in Organizational Improvement

December 7, 2019

In Restoring the Soul of Business, Rishad Tobaccowala examines the high cost of overreliance on humans or machines — but not both. He explains how to reclaim human creativity, insight, and relationships with other humans as well as with machines…

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Robert J. Schiller on “Narrative Economics”

December 6, 2019

In an article for The New York Times (“Why Fox News Slimed a Purple Heart Recipient”), Tobin Smith discusses the importance of Robert J. Schiller‘s  concept of “Narrative Economics” as “contagious stories” so I checked out a position paper in…

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Your Employees Want to Feel the Purpose in Their Work

December 5, 2019

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. *     *     * Instilling purpose in your employees takes more than motivational…

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The analytics academy: Bridging the gap between human and artificial intelligence

December 4, 2019

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Solly Brown, Darshit Gandhi, Louise Herring, and Ankur Puri for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the…

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5 Simple Rules for Strategy Execution

December 4, 2019

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Graham Kenny 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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