Commentaries

Crucibles of Leadership

September 15, 2015

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Warren Bennis and Robert J. Thomas, published in the September 2002 issue of Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription…

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How to Work with People Who Aren’t Good at Working with People

September 14, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic 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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The business wisdom of Steve Jobs

September 13, 2015

Here are ten of my favorite Steve Jobs quotations: o Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And…

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Six building blocks for creating a high-performing digital enterprise

September 12, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Driek Desmet, Ewan Duncan, Jay Scanlan, and Marc Singer for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about…

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The business wisdom of Bill Gates

September 11, 2015

Here are ten of my favorite Gates quotations: o Our vision for the last 20 years [i.e. since 1975] can be summarized in a succinct way. We saw that exponential improvements in computer capabilities would make great software quite valuable.…

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Valuable lessons to be learned from entrepreneurs who created companies that generate more than $100-million in annual revenue

September 10, 2015

In The Creator’s Code, Amy Wilkinson asserts that all of the most creative people in business “share certain fundamental approaches to the act of creation. The skills that make them successful can be learned, practiced, and passed on.” Each is…

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The business wisdom of Andy Grove

September 9, 2015

Here are ten of my favorite Grove quotations: o Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. o When a change in how some element of one’s business is conducted becomes an order of magnitude larger than what…

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How to Get the Feedback You Need

September 8, 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. * * * We all need feedback to learn and grow, but if…

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Stephen Colbert: A Definitive Profile

September 7, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Dave Itzkoff for The New York Times in which he discusses Stephen Colbert who begins as the new host of CBS’s Late Show on Tuesday, September 8th. To read the complete…

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The business wisdom of Warren Buffett

September 7, 2015

Here are ten of my favorite Buffett quotations: o It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results. o What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history. o Chains of habit are too…

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