Commentaries

To all the lexophiles out there….

April 26, 2018

My cousin Barry Roberts shared this list with me and I am now pleased to share it with you. * * * “Lexophile” describes those that have a love for words, such as “you can tune a piano, but you…

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EDNA: Description

April 26, 2018

Many 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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Jonah Sachs on six key components of unsafe thinking and practices

April 25, 2018

In Unsafe Thinking, Jonah Sachs identifies six key components of unsafe thinking and practices “that help us overcome the impediments to its use.” My own experience suggests that safe thinking can become perilous when hostage to what James O’Toole so…

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Risk analytics enters its prime

April 24, 2018

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Rajdeep Dash, Andreas Kremer,Luis Nario, and Derek Waldron for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm,…

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Amy Wrzesniewski on creating meaning in your own work

April 23, 2018

Amy Wrzesniewski is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Yale School of Management, Yale University. Her research explores how people make meaning of their work, with a focus on the impact meaning has on employees and the organizations in which…

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Sunnie Giles on five new leadership “mandates”

April 23, 2018

In The New Science of Radical Innovation, Sunnie Giles focuses on the competencies that leaders will need if their organizations will be able to win in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. Change remains the only constant and…

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Eight shifts that will take your strategy into high gear

April 22, 2018

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Chris Bradley, Martin Hirt, and Sven Smit for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm, obtain subscription information,…

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Make Sure Your Work Is Aligned with Your Boss’s Expectations

April 21, 2018

  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. * * * Most people have had a boss they struggled to…

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Coworking: Spectacular growth and it’s only just begun….

April 21, 2018

According to the Global Coworking Unconference Conference (GCUC), it’s research predicts that there will be 30,432 spaces and 5.1 million members by 2022. Here’s an overview: Now check this out: Much has been said and written about major changes in…

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This is an astonishing statistic….

April 20, 2018

According to Element AI, an independent laboratory in Canada, only 22,000 people worldwide now have the skills needed to do serious artificial intelligence research — about twice as many as a year ago. I would have guessed the total number…

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