Commentaries

How to Ask Team Newcomers to Tackle Tough Problems

March 19, 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. * * * It’s easy to think of newcomers as burdens: they need…

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The Cost of Paying Attention

March 19, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Matthew B. Crawford for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * A few years ago, in…

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Walter Isaacson on Steve Jobs’ Favorite Product: The Apple Team

March 18, 2015

In this brief video for bigthink.com, biographer Walter Isaacson discusses how Steve Jobs may have had a prickly personality, but his ability to build loyal and innovative teams was one of his greater talents. Walter Isaacson is a renowned biographer,…

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Changing the Performance Management Mindset

March 18, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Sebastian Bailey for Talent Management magazine. He suggests that, as ‘rank and yank’ dominates the debate, talent leaders would be wise to focus the discussion on eliminating traditional manager biases and…

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The funniest TED Talks

March 17, 2015

Richard Saul Wurman created the TED conference in 1984 as a onetime event. (As you may already know, TED refers to Technology, Education, and Design.) It became a four-day conference six years later. Chris Anderson purchased TED in 2001. Until…

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Telling the Talent Story

March 17, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Boudreau and David Creelman for Talent Management magazine. They explain how and why the push to create standardized reporting opens the door to give the story behind the numbers. To…

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5 Myths of Great Workplaces

March 16, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ron Friedman 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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A different perspective on Selma and Ferguson in 2015

March 16, 2015

Self-anointed “experts” on race relations and economic inequality continue to blog (i.e. bloviate) about what happened in Selma, Alabama (on March 9, 1965), and what lessons can be learned from it that apply to race relations today, there and elsewhere,…

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How to Add Social Fluency to Your Leadership Skills

March 14, 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. * * * Leaders are increasingly expected to have a strong social media…

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Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant on “How Men Can Succeed in the Boardroom and the Bedroom”

March 13, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from the fourth installment of a series of articles in the “Women at Work” series by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and…

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