Commentaries

Why Combine Your Customer and Employee Feedback Systems?

March 4, 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. * * * Most companies ask customers for feedback about their products and…

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Being Engaged at Work Is Not the Same as Being Productive

March 3, 2017

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ryan Fuller and Nina Shikaloff 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…

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The Best Data Scientists Get Out and Talk to People

March 2, 2017

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Thomas C. Redman 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…

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What a Failed Trump Administration Looks Like

February 28, 2017

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by David Brooks for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * I still have trouble seeing how…

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How to “make the world fully capable of using the mind that the seventeenth-century revolution brought to birth”

February 27, 2017

In The Age of Genius, A.C. Grayling explains how and why “the mind-set of the best-informed people in that century changed from being medieval to being modern in so short and tumultuous a time.” It is in fact the epoch…

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What you can learn from Southwest Airlines’ culture

February 27, 2017

Here is an excerpt from an excellent article written by Micah Solomon and featured online at the Washington Post website. To read the complete article, check out other resources, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * A…

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Innovative management: A conversation with Gary Hamel

February 26, 2017

Here is a brief excerpt from another outstanding interview of Gary Hamel featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company and conducted by Joanna Barsh. To read the complete article, check out others, obtain subscription information, and…

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The Methods to Create a Medici Effect

February 24, 2017

In The Medici Effect, Frans Johansson explains how and why breakthrough creativity happens at the Intersection of different fields, ideas, people, and cultures. This is a revised, updated, and expanded edition of a book first published in 2004, with a…

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The Right Kind of Conflict Leads to Better Results

February 23, 2017

Here is an excerpt from an article written by David Thompson, Gary Butkus, Alan Colquitt and John Boudreaux for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain…

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The case for digital reinvention

February 22, 2017

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Jacques Bughin, Laura LaBerge, and Anette Mellbye for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. They explain how and why digital technology, despite its seeming ubiquity, has only begun…

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