Commentaries

Don’t Let a Group Dynamic Quash Critical Thinking

February 12, 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. * * * People often censor themselves when working in groups because they…

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Embrace Your Ignorance

February 12, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Michael Schrage, featured in the MIT Sloan Management Review. Today’s savviest executives acknowledge that most of the time, they can’t accurately predict what their customers will want, like or need. That’s…

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Assessment: How Resilient Are You?

February 11, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries 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…

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Creating Value Through Business Model Innovation

February 11, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Raphael Amit and Christoph Zott, featured in the MIT Sloan Management Review. Could your company benefit from a new business model? They pose six questions for business leaders to consider. To…

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Guy Kawasaki’s Required Reading

February 10, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article by Theodore Kinni for strategy+business published by Strategy& (Formerly Booz & Company). He shares Guy Kawasaki‘s comments about four of his favorite business books.. To read the complete article, check out others, learn…

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Scott Anthony on The Fourth Era of Innovation: “The New Corporate Garage”

February 10, 2015

To the right is the rented garage in which Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard began forming, in 1939, a two-person company — the original Silicon Valley startup. Working with limited resources, the pair created a series of products—starting with audio…

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Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad on “Competing for the Future”

February 9, 2015

In a classic article they wrote for the Harvard Business Review (July 1994 issue), Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad share their thoughts about how to create the future by asking the right questions and then obtaining the right answers. As…

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The “secret sauce” of great teams

February 8, 2015

Why do so many teams fail to live up to their promise? Because of the obstinate belief that human beings are rational entities. And because team designers fail to take into account the subtle, unconscious dynamics that influence human behavior.…

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How Companies Can Profit from a “Growth Mindset”

February 7, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Harvard Business Review Staff 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…

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Another source of research data on employee engagement

February 6, 2015

Until recently, I did not know that Modern Survey released the results of its Fall 2013 Employee Engagement Study (“State of Engagement: Unveiling the Latest Employee Engagement Research”) on December 3, 2013. The study finds that while employee engagement is…

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