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In 50 Business Classics, Tom Butler-Bowdon includes a discussion of Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997). These are among the dozens of insights that caught my eye: o Research for The Innovator’s Dilemma revealed that “firms fail precisely because of their ‘good’…
Read MoreMany years ago when I began to teach English at the Kent School in Connecticut, I devised an acronym for my students based on two primary sources: Aristotle’s Rhetoric (4th century BCE) and Modern Rhetoric (1949) co-authored by Cleanth Brooks…
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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. * * * Email can be an efficient, convenient way to communicate with…
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Over the years, Marty Neumeier has published eight bestsellers and his ninth —SCRAMBLE — will be published in October. There is no other business thinker I hold in higher regard. His mind reminds me of a Swiss Army knife. For…
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Whatever their size and nature may be, all organizations need effective leadership at all lkevels and in all areas of the given enterprise. In Leadership Sustainability, Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood suggest that,”Leaders do not always accomplish or finish what…
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As you may already know, Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham introduced a concept in 1955 that they aptly characterized as “the unknown unknowns.” That is, ignorance of one’s ignorance. This is probably what Mark Twain had in mind when observing,…
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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. * * * It’s important to challenge yourself with new projects, but taking…
Read MoreHere are ten of my favorite Buffett quotations: o It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results. o What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history. o Chains of habit are too…
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People analytics reveals three things HR may be getting wrong
Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Henri de Romrée, Bruce Fecheyr-Lippens, and Bill Schaninger for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the…
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