Commentaries

Charles Handy on Striving to Earn Trust

June 3, 2017

In Thinkers 50 Leadership Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove focus on various dimensions and elements of leadership, a subject that has fascinated thoughtful commentators at least since a blind poet, Homer, created the Iliad and Odyssey; then, Sophocles and Shakespeare;…

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Clayton Christensen on what disruptive innovation is…and isn’t

June 2, 2017

In Thinkers 50 Innovation: Breakthrough Thinking to Take Your Business to the Next Level, Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove examine the key insights of several of the world’s most influential thought leaders with regard to perhaps the most challenging business…

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Waste is usually the lowest hanging fruit

May 31, 2017

Recently, I posted an excerpt from an article by Vinay Couto, Deniz Caglar, and John Plansky for strategy+business magazine, published by PwC Strategy& LLC. In the article, Building Trust While Cutting Costs, they discuss how, during a restructuring, rumors spread…

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The Guest List: Authors Discuss Their Favorite Works

May 31, 2017

  Here is article written by The American Scholar’s editors. They asked their favorite authors to discuss favorite works. Note: Links are embedded in each article. For example: Ten Tales of Migrations, Long and Short Paul Salopek From haiku to…

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Lives of the Philosophers

May 30, 2017

Here is an article written by Amanda Vaill for The American Scholar in which she focuses on the postwar thinkers who stripped the world of preconceptions To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. *     *  …

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Life moves on with us or without us. The choice is ours.

May 28, 2017

In a recent blog post, Josh Linkner shares this anecdote: Two Zen monks were on a journey when they came to a riverbed. At the edge of the river was an elderly woman who was unable to cross the river…

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As you may not already know….

May 26, 2017

According to several sources I checked out, almost four million men and women have thus far died or been wounded in combat while serving in the U.S. military. The American Civil War (1861-1865) remains the deadliest (750,000) followed by World…

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Golden opportunities in the workplace to nourish relationships

May 25, 2017

In some ways, our relationships with other people resemble plants in that they require ongoing nourishment or they will die from neglect. Doug Conant and Mette Norgaard are the co-authors of TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of…

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Manage Your Emotions by Focusing on Your Values

May 24, 2017

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. * * * Our emotions are signals that can give us data about…

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How to respond to a crisis

May 22, 2017

When Anne Mulcahy was selected by the Xerox board of directors in 2001 to serve as the company’s new president and CEO, she contacted a number of people requesting advice as she began to assume her new duties. When facing…

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