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Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Benjamin Gilad 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…
Read MoreHere is an excerpt from an article that appeared 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 email alerts, please click here.…
Read MoreHere 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. * * * When a colleague or direct report fails to follow…
Read MoreOpinions vary about which forms of really dumb thinking are the most common and many of those opinions offer excellent examples of dumb thinking. The opinions I now share are those of several thinkers whom I personally admire. They include…
Read MoreHere is an excerpt from an article that shares the results of an especially important survey, featured in the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm,…
Read MoreWhen asked for her opinion of Oakland, a city in California where she grew up, Gertrude Stein replied, “There is no ‘there’ there.” The same can be said of the current POTUS. Bloated emptiness…. To anyone who still thinks…
Read MoreHere is an excerpt from an article written by Robin J. Ely and Irene Padavic for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information,…
Read MoreOne of the most valuable but least appreciated methodologies for making the best decisions is Forced Field Analysis, invented by Kurt Lewin in the 1940s. Lewin originally used it in his work as a social psychologist. Today, however, it is…
Read MoreHere is an excerpt from an article written by Mike Walsh 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 wit and wisdom of Desiderius Erasmus
According to James D. Tracy, Desiderius Erasmus was born October 27, 1469 [1466?], Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, and died July 12, 1536, Basel, Switzerland. He was a Dutch humanist but also, paradoxically, the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance, the…
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