Commentaries

As another new year approaches….

December 20, 2013

It has been a pleasure as well as a privilege to read and review so many outstanding books and interview those who wrote them, then be able to share this wealth of material with others throughout the world. This will…

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James Citrin’s “Big Idea 2014”: The One Crucial Leadership Skill Is Agility

December 20, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by James Citrin for LinkedIn’s “Big Ideas 2014” series in which LinkedIn Influencers pick one big idea that will shape 2014. To read the complete article and check out others, please…

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The New “Four Ps”: Everything You Need to Know About Your Customers

December 19, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article by David Edelman for LinkedIn Pulse. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. Image: Chrisinplymoth/Flickr * * * Every marketer at some point early on in his/her career…

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Onora O’Neill on “What we don’t understand about trust”

December 19, 2013

Trust is on the decline, and we need to rebuild it. That’s a commonly heard suggestion for making a better world … but, says philosopher Onora O’Neill, we don’t really understand what we’re suggesting. She flips the question, showing us…

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Tim Brown on “The Need for More Darwin and Less Newton in Our Approach to Design”

December 18, 2013

In 1969, Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon noted: “Engineering, medicine, business, architecture, and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent — not with how things are, but with they might be — in short, with design. Every…

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The cement truck metaphor

December 18, 2013

Years ago, I devised a metaphor for business that helps to illustrate two defining characteristics of a healthy organization. Let’s express it in the form of a question: “What would happen around here if [name of employee] were run over…

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His Hour Upon the Stage

December 17, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Douglas L. Wilson for The American Scholar during which he explains why, although a lifelong reader of Shakespeare’s plays, Lincoln had reservations about how they were presented. To read the complete…

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Our Final Invention: How the Human Race Goes and Gets Itself Killed

December 16, 2013

  Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Greg Scoblete for RealClearTechnology, a sister site of RealClearPolitics, and serves as a catch-all source for technology and gadget news and commentary. Every day, RealClearTechnology editors find and select the…

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You’ve Hired the Best Talent – Now How Do You Keep Them?

December 16, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Linda Descano, published by LinkedIn. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. * * * A few weeks ago, I shared insights on hiring as part…

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Why a Successful Transition is a Great Legacy

December 15, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Angela Ahrendts, published by LinkedIn. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. * * * As you’ll know from my earlier posts, I firmly believe in…

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