Commentaries

Get ready for hybrid thinking

June 7, 2014

Two hundred million years ago, our mammal ancestors developed a new brain feature: the neocortex. This stamp-sized piece of tissue (wrapped around a brain the size of a walnut) is the key to what humanity has become. Now, futurist Ray…

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Why you hate work

June 6, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article co-authored by Tony Schwartz and Christine Porathmay for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * The way…

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3 Priorities for Leaders Who Want to Go Beyond Command-and-Control

June 5, 2014

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Coleman and Jim Whitehurst 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…

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What Businesses Can Learn From Sports Analytics

June 4, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Thomas H. Davenport for the MITSloan Management Review. As he explains, the use of analytics in the sports world has much to teach managers about alignment, performance improvement and business ecosystems.…

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Reinvent Your Company by Reassessing Its Strengths

June 4, 2014

Here is an excerpt from a superb article written by Ken Favaro 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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Culture Feasts on Innovation: Here’s What You Can Do About It

June 4, 2014

Here is a link to Reuven Gorsht‘s response to a question all of us have asked at one time or another: “How can I be innovative within a workplace environment that is hostile or indifferent to it?” Reuven Gorsht is…

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Marty Neumeier on “The Rules of Genius, #14: Use a dynamic process for reactive elements”

June 2, 2014

Complex problems are dynamic. They don’t hold still while you work on them. The traditional approach is to address a complex problem as if it were a simple problem, breaking it into discrete steps that can be executed one at…

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The Best Free Business MOOCs This Month (June)

June 2, 2014

Here is a brief article by Winthrop Lu and featured by Poets&Quants that will be of great interest to those who wish to consider enrollment in one of the massive open online courses (MOOCs) offered by professors in major business…

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Julia Tang Peters on “Five Types of a Pivotal Decisions”

June 1, 2014

In her recently published book, Pivot Points, Julia Tang Peters identifies five decisions every successful leader must make: 1. The launching decision makes a commitment to mater specialized skills in order to no more, much more than the given job…

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The Price of Wall Street’s Power

May 31, 2014

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Gautam Mukunda 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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