Commentaries

Why and How Great Leaders Embrace Office Politics

May 2, 2016

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Michael Chang Wenderoth 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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The Best Bosses Follow These 5 Rules

May 1, 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. * * * Amazing bosses try to make work meaningful and enjoyable for…

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Charles Duhigg on “the eight ideas that seem most important to expanding productivity”

April 30, 2016

In Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business, Charles Duhigg sets the table: Various advances in communications and technology are supposed to make our lives easier. “Instead, they often seem to fill o0ur days with…

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3 Steps Leaders Can Take to Restore Trust

April 30, 2016

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Susan Mazza 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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Great Innovators Create the Future , Manage the Present, and Selectively Forget the Past

April 29, 2016

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Vijay Govindarajan for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. The material is adapted from The Three-Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation (Harvard Business Review Press April 2016). To…

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4 Tips for Identifying and Developing High-Performing Employees

April 29, 2016

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Sharlyn Lauby 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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Why Engagement Happens In Employees’ Hearts, Not Their Minds

April 28, 2016

Winning your employees over to stick with the company long term involves an array of factors—but first among those is love. Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Mark C, Crowley for Fast Company magazine. To read the…

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A brilliant framework for coordinating an organization’s past, present, and future

April 28, 2016

In his latest book, The Three-Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation, published by Harvard Business Review (April 2016), Vijay Govindarajan provides what he characterizes as “a simple framework that recognizes all three competing challenges face that managers face when…

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Encounters with Shakespeare

April 24, 2016

This spring is the four-hundredth anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, seen here in a 1609 oil portrait. Credit: Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collection/Getty April 23rd is believed to be the date on which Shakespeare was born in 1564 as…

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The Best Leaders Keep an Open Mind

April 23, 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. * * * We often think of great leaders as having the conviction…

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