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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jonathan Schlefer for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…
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In Fast/Forward, Julian Birkinshaw and Jonas Ridderstråle observe that “the formulae for success that worked in prior decades offer only very limited insights into what might work in the future. This is because the business context keeps changing: not in…
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In The Attention Merchants, Tim Wu examines merchants who have been involved in an “epic scramble to get inside our heads” for more than a century. He observes: “As an industry, attention merchants are relatively new. Their lineage can be…
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Here is a Wiki briefing on a concept that is the focus of Mihaly Csikszentmihályi‘s eponymous book, published in 1990. “In positive psychology, flow, also known as being ‘the zone,’ is the mental state of operation in which a person…
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In Elite Minds, Stan Beecham shares a number of quotations that indicate “how winners think differently.” Here are ten: “If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days…
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Goldsmith’s insight serves as the title of one of his most thoughtful books and I presume to add that what got you here won’t even allow you to remain here, no matter whatever and wherever “here” and “there” may be.…
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In Gods of Management, Charles Handy identifies and examines what have been characterized as “the four basic forms of management.” Here they are the club culture (Zeus), based on formal power and influence; the role culture (Apollo), based on logic…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Dominic Barton and Lareina Yee 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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What “Living Differentiation” is and why it is so important to business success
Here is an excerpt from an article written by James Allen for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…
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