Commentaries

Perspectives on Beauty

January 31, 2025

Here are several of my favorite perspectives on beauty:   “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”    Confucius “Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.”    Ralph Waldo Emerson “The beauty of…

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Three Nonnegotiable Leadership Skills for 2025

January 29, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Melissa Swift for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others,  sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit:  Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT…

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What Is Agentic AI, and How Will It Change Work?

January 27, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Mark Purdy for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit:  Jonathan Kitchen/Getty Images  …

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Leaders Shouldn’t Try to Do It All

January 23, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: Owen…

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How your company’s strategy can beat the odds by embracing uncertainty

January 22, 2025

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by  Chris Bradley, Martin Hirt, and Sven Smit for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company (March 23, 2018). To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm,…

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When Candidates Use Generative AI for the Interview

January 21, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Navio Kwok for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others,  sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit:  Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT…

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Thoughtful and thought-provoking observations on this national holiday

January 20, 2025

These are the concluding thoughts in an article written by Jonathan Eig that appeared in the Washington Post (January 16, 2025). He is the author of King: A Life, winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography. To read the…

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Why leadership-development programs fail

January 20, 2025

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by  Pierre Gurdjian, Thomas Halbeisen, and Kevin Lane for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company (January 1, 2014 ). To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the…

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What We Need to Stop Misreading as Romantic Chemistry

January 18, 2025

Here is an especially interesting article by Mark Travers and published in Psychology Today. * * * Is she the one? Or is your brain, for the moment, incapable of seeing clearly? Romantic chemistry is highly difficult to predict, let…

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4 Listening Skills Leaders Need to Master

January 18, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Debra Schifrin for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit:  Martin Barraud/Getty Images …

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