Commentaries

Beware a Culture of Busyness

June 3, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Adam Waytz 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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Alice Munro, a Literary Alchemist Who Made Great Fiction From Humble Lives

June 3, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Gregory Cowles for The New Times. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information please click here. * * * AN APPRAISAL…

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Inside Reese Witherspoon’s Literary Empire

June 1, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by XXXX for The New Times. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Credit: Jingyu Lin for The New…

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How the Language of TV is Influencing How We See Ourselves

May 31, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Kim Hew-Low for The New Times. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information please click here. Credit…Photo illustration by Chantal Jahchan …

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Building a Data-Driven Culture: Three Mistakes to Avoid

May 29, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ganes Kesari  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. Illustration Credit:  Carolyn…

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How to let go of attachment and become open to magic

May 27, 2024

James O’Toole asserts that the greatest resistance to change tends to be cultural in nature, the result of what he so aptly characterizes as “the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom.” More often than not, this is a…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads for Executive Teams: A Book Review by Bob Morris

May 27, 2024

HBR’s 10 Must Reads for Executive Teams Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (June 2023) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African Proverb This volume is among the best sources…

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How the Smartest CEOs Start

May 24, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ty Wiggins 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. Illustration Credit:  Carolyn…

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Peter Drucker’s classic McKinsey Quarterly article, “The manager and the moron”

May 23, 2024

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Peter Drucker (1909-2005) that appeared in the McKinsey Quarterly in the December 1967 issue. According to Drucker, the computer is a moron. And the stupider the tool, the brighter the master…

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Reskilling in the Age of AI

May 22, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jorge Tamayo, Leila Doumi, Sagar Goel, Orsolya Kovács-Ondrejkovic, and Raffaella Sadun for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free…

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