Commentaries

Power to the new people analytics

June 16, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article co-authored by Bruce Fecheyr-Lippens, Bill Schaninger, and Karen Tanne for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. They discuss techniques used to mine consumer and industry data that may also let…

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Key contributors to success and failure for leaders in navigating diverse and changing strategic environments

June 15, 2015

In their recently published book, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy: How to Choose and Execute the Right Approach, published by Harvard Business Review Press (2015), Martin Reeves, Knut Haanaes, and Janmejava Sinha offer these key contributors to success and failure…

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The key to success? Grit

June 13, 2015

Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn’t the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled.…

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How the Navy SEALs Train for Leadership Excellence

June 12, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Michael Schrage 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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Why It Is Important to Encourage More Debate at Work

June 11, 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. Note: I much prefer “principled dissent” to “debate.” There are already too many…

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Bill Gates, Andy Grove and Steve Jobs: The Strategies They Shared

June 10, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Steve Lohr that appeared in The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Photo Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images * *…

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New Research Says Robots Are Unlikely to Eat Our Jobs

June 9, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Steve Lohr that appeared in The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Photo by Jonah M. Kessel/The New York…

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You Need an Innovation Strategy

June 9, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Gary P. Pisano 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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11 TED Talks by brilliant women in STEM

June 8, 2015

As you already know, there have been hundreds of books and articles published in recent years about the barriers that many women face when pursuing an education and then a career in what collectively is call the STEM disciplines: Science,…

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10 Principles of Organization Design

June 8, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Gary L. Neilson, Jaime Estupiñán, and Bhushan Sethi for strategy+ business magazine, published by PwC strategy& LLC (formerly Booz & Company). The fundamental guidelines they recommend, drawn from broad and deep…

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