Commentaries

Why AI Will Never Replace Managers

August 9, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Frank Martela and Jukka Luoma 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:  Sergio Delle Vedove/Getty Images…

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Owning the Room in the Age of AI

August 8, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Nancy Duarte for MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: n  Carolyn…

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What you may not already know about Buster Keaton

August 7, 2025

The International Movie Database (IMDb) remains the best single source for information about filmmaking and those who create them. I urge you to check it out. For example, here is a portion of the information IMDb provides about Joseph Frank…

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Bridging the gap between a company’s strategy and operating model

August 7, 2025

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Harris Atmar, Camilo Becdach, Sarah Kleinman, and Kirk Rieckhoff for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about…

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Usher: The pilot who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

August 6, 2025

Here is a classic article written by  Eugene Kinkead for The New Yorker (December 29, 1945). To check out other classics, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: Photograph from Time Life Pictures…

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What Jim Collins learned from Peter Drucker

August 6, 2025

Jim Collins provided the Foreword to the 50th anniversary edition of Peter Drucker’s classic, The Effective Executive, a book first published in 1967. Consider this passage: “Here are ten lessons I learned from Peter Drucker and this book, and that…

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Delegate to Build Stronger Teams

August 2, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Benjamin Laker for MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit:  Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT…

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Now Is the Time for Courage

August 1, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ranjay Gulati for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit:  Mariola Grobelska/Unsplash *…

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The innovation challenge: Good ideas are harder to find

July 30, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Alex Singla, Alexander Sukharevsky, Elia Berteletti, Lareina Yee, and Michael Chui, for McKinsey Quarterly. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration…

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Seven steps to better brainstorming

July 29, 2025

Here is a brief excerpt from a classic article written by Kevin P. Coyne and Shawn T. Coyne for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company (2011). To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about…

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