Commentaries

Brain Food Nuggets (11-20)

October 16, 2013

Another buffet awaits: o “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou o “Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to…

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New York Times Readers’ Advice for Young Women in the Workplace

October 15, 2013

In Adam Bryant’s special installment of Corner Office on women and leadership, four executives, ranging from the president of a beauty products company to the general counsel at Pfizer, discussed their success in business as a woman. Meanwhile, The Times…

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From Exponential Technologies to Exponential Innovation

October 15, 2013

Here is an introduction to Report 2 in the 2013 Shift Index series, published by Deloitte University Press. Its co-authors are John Hagel III, John Seely Brown (JSB), Tamara Samoylova, & Michael Lui. To learn more, please click here. *…

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You Can Win Without Differentiation

October 14, 2013

Here is a recent post by Freek Vermeulen for the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * *…

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The strategic yardstick you can’t afford to ignore

October 14, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article by Chris Bradley, Angus Dawson, and Sven Smit for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. In it, they discuss a systematic scan of the economic-profit performance of nearly 3,000 global companies…

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What’s New in Innovation Education? Jazz, for One Thing

October 12, 2013

Here’s an excerpt from an article by Melissa Korn for the Wall Street Journal in which she explains how and why innovation education is getting innovative at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. Its innovation program looks at how ideas are…

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Urban world: The shifting global business landscape

October 11, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Richard Dobbs, Jaana Remes, Sven Smit, James Manyika, Jonathan Woetzel, and Yaw Agyenim-Boateng, featured online by McKinsey & Company. Emerging markets are changing where and how the world does business. For…

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George Saunders’ moving commencement speech at Syracuse University goes viral

October 10, 2013

George Saunders (Class of ’88), professor of English and author of The New York Times best-seller Tenth of December (Random House, 2013), delivered the commencement speech at The College of Arts and Sciences’ undergraduate convocation ceremony on Saturday, May 11,…

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11 Brilliant Inventions Made by Mistake

October 10, 2013

In The Innovation Expedition: A Visual Toolkit to Start Innovation (BIS Publishers, Amsterdam 2013), Gijs van Wulfen includes a brief but informative discussion of “accidental accidents.” 1. Columbus: When he first reached land during the first voyage, he thought he had…

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It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad business world….

October 9, 2013

Dilbertisms A magazine ran a “Dilbert Quotations” contest. They were looking for people to submit quotations from their real-life Dilbert-type managers. Here are the finalists: 1. As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual…

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