Commentaries

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

August 11, 2024

In one of his most thoughtful blog posts, 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…

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The Essential John le Carré: An Overview

August 10, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Sam Adler-Bell for The New Times (Published July 12, 2023. Updated July 13, 2023). To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information…

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Return-to-Office Mandates: How to Lose Your Best Performers

August 9, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Brian Elliott 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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Entropy: The silent assassin of organizational health

August 8, 2024

In 1865, a German physicist, Rudolph Clausius (1822-1888), coined the term entropy during his research on heat. The word’s meaning: “a turning towards” (in Greek, en+tropein), “content transformative” or “transformative content.” Clausius used the concept to establish a mathematical foundation for the second law…

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Banish the Harmful Creatures of COVID-Era Work

August 7, 2024

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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As Your Team Gets Bigger, Your Leadership Style Has to Adapt

August 6, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Julie Zhuo 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: Alexander Nicholson/Getty Images…

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“Lives of the Philosophers” Revisited

August 5, 2024

Here is a classic 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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The Surprising Power of Questions

August 4, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Alison Wood Brooks and Leslie K. John for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here.…

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Renaissance Man

August 2, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Joan Acocella for The New Yorker (November 3, 2013). To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information please click here. *…

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Finding the courage to shrink

July 30, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic article featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. Bill Huyett and Tim Koller acknowledge that spinning off businesses can have real advantages in creating value—if  executives understand how. To…

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