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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The TED organization offers a set of videos that offer a feast to those who are passionate about personal growth and professional development. Ann Landers once observed, “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Here’s good news: All TED…
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In his latest book, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Greg McKeown affirms the value of becoming and then remaining an essentialist, one who is committed “to the relentless pursuit of less but better. It does not mean occasionally giving…
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The business wisdom of Steve Jobs
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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