Commentaries

Marla Gottschalk on “The Top Workplace Movies of All Time: Part 2”

September 29, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from a terrific article by Marla Gottschalk for LinkedIn during which she briefly discusses another ten top workplace movies: Working Girl (1988), Broadcast News (1987), Clerks (1994), Wall Street (1987), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), Network…

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Gijus van Wulfen on “10 Practical Innovation Lessons from Great Explorers”

September 28, 2013

In The Innovation Expedition, Gijus van Wulfen identifies and discusses lessons to be learned from great explorers such as Roald Amundsen, Neil Armstrong, Christopher Columbus, Yuri Gagarin, Edmund Hillary, David Livingston, Ferdinand Magellan, and Ernest Shackleton. All of these them…

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Mary Brainerd, Jim Campbell, and Richard Davis on “Doing well by doing good: A leader’s guide”

September 27, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Mary Brainerd, Jim Campbell, and Richard Davis for the McKinsey Quarterly. As they explain, addressing community problems increasingly requires cooperation among the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors. These three executives explain…

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What? More terrific quotations? You betcha!

September 26, 2013

I am an incurable collector of quotations and now share another group, most of which are new to me. o “I can’t recall a time that was as volatile, complex, ambiguous, and tumultuous. As one successful executive put it, ‘If…

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Tim Cook: The Complete Interview by Sam Grobart

September 25, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an extended interview of Tim Cook by Sam Grobart for Bloomberg Businessweek. As Grobart explains, “For this week’s cover story on Apple (AAPL) and its future, I spent some time with Tim Cook, who said…

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Tim Brown asks, “What’s Stopping You from Being Creative?”

September 25, 2013

Here’s a brief article by Tim Brown for LinkedIn Today. To check out a wealth of other superb articles, please click here. * * * “In our experience, everyone is the creative type.” So true. The quote comes from Creative…

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Ten of the most important women in U.S. history

September 24, 2013

However different these ten women may be in most respects, all of them share this in common: They had or continue to have a great impact on the quality of life and the standard of living for everyone in the…

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Tina Rozenberg on “Malcolm Gladwell: Guru of the Underdogs”

September 24, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article by Tina Rozenberg for The Atlantic in which she suggests that Malcolm Gladwell‘s latest gospel of success further romanticizes the Davids of the world and underrates the Goliaths. To read the complete article,…

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Michael Hess on “Delegate your work, not your business”

September 24, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Michael Hess for CBS MoneyWatch, the CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the website’s newsletters,…

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