Commentaries

Why Curious People Are Destined for the C-Suite

October 21, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Warren Berger 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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Most Startups Fail. The Few That Don’t, Follow This Advice.

October 21, 2015

“In our digital age, we’re drowning in information. The web offers us infinite data points—news stories, tweets, wikis, status updates, etc—but very little to connect the dots or illuminate the larger patterns linking them together. Here at Big Think, we…

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Nine questions to help you get your digital transformation right

October 20, 2015

Becoming a digital organization requires fundamentally changing how you do business. Answering these nine questions can help break through the inevitable barriers. Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Karel Dörner and Jürgen Meffert for the McKinsey…

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Marty Neumeier on “The Seven Enemies of Simplicity”

October 19, 2015

Marty Neumeier obviously agrees with Albert Einstein who urged years ago, “Make everything as simple as possible but no simpler.” In his latest book, THE BRAND FLIP: Why customers now run companies and how to profit from it, Neumeier identifies…

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Dave Ulrich on how to measure the market value of leadership

October 18, 2015

In his latest book, The Leadership Capital Index: Realizing the Market Value of Leadership, Dave Ulrich offers what Mark Mobias has described as “a systematic and logical way to measure the elusive variable of company leadership that plays such a…

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How Women Can Show Passion at Work Without Seeming “Emotional”

October 17, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Kathryn Heath and Jill Flynn 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…

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“No Guts No Glory” Is Sexy, Terrible Advice For Entrepreneurs

October 17, 2015

“In our digital age, we’re drowning in information. The web offers us infinite data points—news stories, tweets, wikis, status updates, etc—but very little to connect the dots or illuminate the larger patterns linking them together. Here at Big Think, we…

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Nick Bostrom’s “philosophical quest for solutions to humanity’s biggest problems”

October 16, 2015

In one of the most popular TED Talks, Oxford philosopher and transhumanist Nick Bostrom examines the future of humankind and asks whether we might alter the fundamental nature of humanity to solve our most intrinsic problems. Bostrom asks big questions:…

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The 4 Questions to Ask When You Debrief on a Project

October 15, 2015

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. * * * Debriefings can help you accelerate projects, innovate new approaches to…

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Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton on “What Makes It Hard to Be Evidence Based?”

October 14, 2015

Here is a sidebar to a classic article, Evidence-Based Management (2006), co-authored by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources,…

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