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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Brad Stone for Bloomberg Businessweek. He spoke to hundreds of current and former employees, as well as friends and family of founder Jeff Bezos, to discover the poignant story of…
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Here is the introduction to an article written by Adam Bryant for The New York Times. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * When I started the Corner Office column more than four years and about…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Michael C. Mankins and Richard Steele for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. They explain how and why a strategy-to-performance gap fosters a culture of underperformance. To read the…
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I am deeply grateful to Marty Neumeier for sharing the Metaskills Quiz 2.0, developed by the Liquid Brand Agency with which Marty is associated as its Director of Transformation. Here is Marty’s introduction, followed by a link. * * *…
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Though not technically a commencement speech, this remarkable keynote address by Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) at The Sixth Annual Writer’s Symposium by the Sea is brimming with the kind of invaluable wisdom you wish someone had pinned to your mind in…
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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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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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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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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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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on Flow, “the secret to happiness”
I cannot recall a prior time when there was greater interest in the subject of happiness. Hundreds of books and articles have already been published this year and presumably there will be many more by year’s end. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi [pronounced “Mee-hy…
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