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In Strategy That Works: How Winning Companies Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap, Paul Leinwand and Cesare R. Mainardi (with Art Kleiner) point out that two-thirds of executives say their organizations don’t have the capabilities to support their strategy. Leinwand and Mainardi…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Roger L. Martin 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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In recently published INVENTology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, January 2015), Pagan Kennedy offers working definitions of invention and innovation by Art Fry — the originator of the Post-it Note — who developed…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ellen Langer 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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According to Merriam-Webster, serendipity is “the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for.” For example, almost 80 years ago, after taking his dog for a walk in the woods, a Swiss amateur-mountaineer and inventor named…
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I have launched a new column for Inc. online and hope that you check it out. Each week, I briefly discuss two current business bestsellers and a “classic” from my backlist. I call the column “The 60-Second Bookshelf” because…
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was a tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero. In 65 AD, Seneca was caught up in…
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Recent research from the banking sector suggests that more IT investment doesn’t necessarily boost profits, but targeted investments in particular areas might. Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Matthias Hoene for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Sydney Finkelstein 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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Make Learning Harder to Increase Retention
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 information is at our fingertips, and attention spans are…
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