Commentaries

The Leaders Creating China’s Great Companies

March 7, 2017

In Fortune Makers, Michael Useem, Harbir Singh, Neng Liang, and Peter Cappelli focus on “the leaders creating China’s great companies.” They explain how these leaders “have used capitalism to pull 600 million people out of poverty and [China] is on…

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5 Ways To Develop Great Leaders

March 7, 2017

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Anita Bowness for Halogen Software’s TalentSpace blog. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * *…

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What Do You Really Mean by Business “Transformation”?

March 6, 2017

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Scott Anthony 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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Risk: Seeing around the corners

March 5, 2017

Risk-assessment processes typically expose only the most direct threats facing a company and neglect indirect ones that can have an equal or greater impact. Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Eric Lamar and Martin Pergler for…

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Jeff Fox on “Small But Very Expensive Mistakes”

March 4, 2017

Jeff Fox is one of the most creative as well as one of the most practical business thinkers I know. How’s this for a background? “Grew up in a small town. Saw Mickey Mantle hit several home runs at Yankee…

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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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