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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Rob Cross and Chris Ernst for Talent Management magazine. In agree with them: For companies to continuously innovate, they must first redesign how jobs are structured to discover and communicate new…
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Evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson has spent much of his career studying leafcutter ants. In a book co-authored with Bert Hölldobler, The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct, he argues that their success is due to division of labor. There are…
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Here’s a brief excerpt from an article by Larry Fink for LinkedIn Pulse. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. * * * This week, I wrote a letter to shareholders as part of BlackRock’s…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Kate Everson for Talent Management magazine. Saying, “here’s what we have” rather than “here’s what we need to fix” could be the key to better leadership and higher performance. This story…
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Here is an especially interesting blog post by Josh Linkner. Hopefully you have read both or at least one of his two bestsellers, Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity (2011) and The Road to Reinvention: How to…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Susana Rinderle for Talent Management magazine. When giving feedback, follow the Platinum Rule: do unto others as they would have done unto them. To read the complete article, check out all…
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I have just read and will soon review Steven Pinker’s latest book, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, published by Viking/The Penguin Group (September 2014). Steven offers three reasons why, in communications…
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Here is an excerpt from an article by Aparna M. for LinkedIn Pulse. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. * * * The need to be heard is a basic human need. Listening is…
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Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work
I have read and reviewed Liz Wiseman’s previously published books — notably Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter and The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools — and am now reading Rookie Smarts, published by HarperBusiness (October 2014). In it,…
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