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In their classic HBR article (January 2001), “The Making of a Corporate Athlete,” Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz share their thoughts about how to renew energy in order to improve performance. Here is a brief excerpt. * * * Spiritual…
Read MoreLooking for an effective way to pick up a useful business book to read? This this was prepared by Max Nisen for Business Insider won’t be a waste of time. Each of the famous and influential business books is described…
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. * * * Conversations about promotions can be tense —…
Read MoreThese are very interesting predictions…. I am indebted to Michael Bjorn Hansen for informing me that these predictions were put together by Robert Goldman with Alli Berman. * * * In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold…
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. * * * Telling your boss that you’re leaving your job…
Read MoreThere are many excellent films that focus on England’s struggle for survival during World War Two and one of the best of them is The Imitation Game (2014), starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing. He and his team eventually “broke”…
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. * * * Job interviews are stressful. Even when you’ve done…
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Hidden Figures, Part 1: The Historical Background
Note: The material that follows — presented in the present tense — was gathered from several sources, including Wikipedia and IMBDatabase. In 1961, mathematician Katherine Goble works as a human computer in the segregated division West Area Computers of the…
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