Commentaries

Peter Stearns on “The History of Happiness”

March 8, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Peter N. Stearns 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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Travis Bradberry on “10 Truths We Forget Too Easily”

March 7, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Travis Bradberry for LinkedIn Pulse in which he reviews a series of basic truths whose importance many (most?) of us either forget or under-estimate. To read the complete article, check out…

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Andreas Kluth on “The Catastrophe of Success”

March 6, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Andreas Kluth 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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From Bedouin To Billionaire: How Mohed Altrad Became Europe’s Scaffolding King

March 6, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Katia Savchuk for Forbes magazine. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Photo: Laura Stevens for Forbes * * * Mohed Altrad doesn’t…

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Valuable Lessons to Be Learned from Cass Sunsein and Reid Hastie

March 5, 2015

In one of Tom Davenport’s recent books, Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right, he and co-author Brooke Manville offer “an antidote for the Great Man theory of decision making and organizational performance”:…

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Google’s 10 golden rules for personal growth and professional development

March 5, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article by Eric Schmidt and Hal Varian for Newsweek magazine. What’s interesting is that the rules are all about people: doing what they can to remove anything in the way of letting people shine.…

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The #1 Reason Leadership Development Fails

March 4, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Mike Myatt for Forbes magazine. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * Over the years, I’ve observed just about every…

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Tom Davenport on “Ten types of analytical innovation”

March 4, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tom Davenport for Deloitte University Press (August 6, 2014). According to Tom, ten types of innovation can be driven, supported, or measured with analytics. If you’re not using analytics for all…

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Sarah Fister Gale on “Forging a Predictive Path”

March 3, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Sarah Fister Gale for Talent Management magazine. She explains why adoption of predictive analytics in talent management has been slow, but a few companies have shown how it can positively influence…

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Recruiting Better Talent with Brain Games and Big Data

March 3, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article by Yuki Noguchi for National Public Radio. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about NPR, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. Photo Credit: Marcus Butt/Getty…

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