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I do not recall a prior time in U.S. history when more women demanded equal rights more effectively than those who have in recent years. In the words of Bernard of Chartres, a 12th century monk, , they stand upon…
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Dan Pink is the author of six provocative books — including his newest, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. His other books include the long-running New York Times bestseller A Whole New Mind and the #1 New York Times bestsellers Drive and To Sell is Human. His books have…
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Fei-Fei Li is director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at Stanford University. She started at Stanford: 2009 An associate professor of computer science and director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, Li will lead the new $25 million partnership between…
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Conservative estimates suggest that billions of dollars will be spent on employee training programs by U.S. companies in 2018. What’s of much greatest interest to me are the results of post-training surveys to obtain feedback from program participants and their supervisors:…
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Quite by accident, I came upon an especially interesting essay by John Steele Gordon (author of An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power), now featured at the Imprimis website, an online magazine published by Hillsdale College.…
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I once asked Jim: What do you think will be the characteristics of the new generation of leaders? I think humility is a good start. I think we got to a point where people thought that if you wanted to…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Sam Bourton, Johanne Lavoie, and Tiffany Vogel 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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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. * * * When evaluating a job offer, it’s important to know whether…
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EDNA: Exposition
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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