Commentaries

Analytics for Recruiting in Six Easy Steps

March 17, 2014

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Sarah Fister Gale for Talent Management magazine. To read the complete article, check out all the resources, and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and/or Chief Learning Officer…

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Daniel Gilbert on “Why we make decisions”

March 16, 2014

Richard Saul Wurman created the TED conference in 1984 as a onetime event. (As you may already know, TED refers to Technology, Education, and Design.) It became a four-day conference six years later. Chris Anderson purchased TED in 2001. Until…

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John E. Kelley III and Steve Hamm on “The Cognitive City”

March 15, 2014

In Smart Machines: IBM’s Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing, John E. Kelley III and Steve Hamm explore the emerging era of cognitive computing and devote all of Chapter 7 to a product of their collaborative imagine, what they…

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Michael E. Porter on “The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy”

March 15, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Michael Porter for Harvard Business Review in which he reaffirms, updates, and extends his earlier, classic HBR article, “How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy” (1979). He also addresses common misunderstandings, provides…

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Brain Food Nuggets (99-100)

March 14, 2014

The buffet awaits: o “One day at a time. It sounds so simple. It actually is simple but it isn’t easy: it requires incredible support and fastidious structuring.” Russell Brand o “That’s all any of us are: amateurs. We don’t…

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Brian Tracy on Delegation & Supervision

March 13, 2014

Delegation & Supervision is one of the volumes in the Brian Tracy Success Library. Thus far, the others focus on motivation, negotiation, time management, and leadership, all published by AMACOM. Tracy has already written one or more books of greater…

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Sir Ken Robinson on “How schools kill creativity”

March 13, 2014

Richard Saul Wurman created the TED conference in 1984 as a onetime event. (As you may already know, TED refers to Technology, Education, and Design.) It became a four-day conference six years later. Chris Anderson purchased TED in 2001. Until…

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Ken Perlman: “Leadership Lessons From Animal House”

March 12, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Ken Perlman for Forbes. He discusses the very real fear of leading that many managers have, and he suggests how to get past it. To read the complete article, check…

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David Brooks on “The Leaderless Doctrine”

March 12, 2014

I have begun and then abandoned more than a dozen drafts of a commentary on what I think is the prevailing mindset of many people as the United States stumbles along, lurching into an uncertain future. I guess I lack…

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