Commentaries

Accelerating Projects by Encouraging Help

March 11, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article co-authored by Fabian J. Sting, Christoph H. Loch, and Dirk Stempfhuber for MIT Sloan Management Review. To keep product development projects on schedule, they explain why establishing psychological safety and promoting cooperative…

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Walter Isaacson on Alan Turing and the Imitation Game

March 10, 2015

In this brief video for bigthink.com biographer Walter Isaacson compares Alan Turing’s computing philosophy with that of Ada Lovelace a hundred years prior. Turing, the subject of the new film The Imitation Game, is also featured prominently in Isaacson’s new…

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The Secrets to Managing Business Analytics Projects

March 9, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article co-authored by Stijn Viaene and Annabel Van den Bunder for MIT SLoan Managedment Review. They explain why business analytics projects are often characterized by uncertain or changing requirements — and a high…

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Sarah Fister Gale on “Tricks of the Predictive Trade”

March 9, 2015

Here is a brief 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 business. To…

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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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