Commentaries

Get the Crowd to Weigh In on Strategic Decisions

July 12, 2016

  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. * * * In most organizations authority for the most important strategic…

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Warren Buffett’s Proposed Congressional Reforms

July 11, 2016

Warren Buffett once told CNBC: “I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for…

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Five Tips to Help Lead Your Team to Greatness

July 10, 2016

In Team Genius: The New Science of High-Performing Organizations, one of Rich Karlgaard and Michael Malone’s key insights is that work really gets done by informal teams rather than by standing committees or groups assigned to formal projects of finite…

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Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner on becoming “the best leader you can be”

July 10, 2016

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” Alvin Toffler “Are leaders born or made?” My answer is yes. I’ve stopped counting the number of…

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Patrick Lencioni on why teams fail

July 9, 2016

In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, Patrick Lencioni focuses on these troublemakers: 1. Absence of Trust: The fear of being vulnerable with team members prevents the building of trust within the team. 2. Fear of Conflict:…

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The Politics of the Benghazi Report

July 7, 2016

Here is brief excerpt from an article Amy Davidson for The New Yorker. To read the complete article, check other material, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Photo Credit: Tom Williams/ CQ Roll Call / Getty *     *…

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Focus on What You Have in Common When Working Across Cultures

July 7, 2016

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. * * * When working with a person from another culture, your instinct…

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Telcos: The untapped promise of big data

July 6, 2016

Here is a brief article written by Jacques Bughin 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, and register to receive email…

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Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure

July 5, 2016

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Shawn Achor for and Michelle Gielan 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…

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Strategic human resources is key to organizational success

July 5, 2016

The first strategic objective of a business is to stay in business. This is probably what Peter Drucker has in mind when suggesting that “business has only two basic functions — marketing and innovation.” That is, create or increase demand…

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