Commentaries

Pragmatic Pathways to Fundamental, Long-Term Change

March 8, 2013

Resistance to change can doom large-scale organizational transformation. One way to help make success more likely is through a series of smaller moves, smartly made—following Pragmatic Pathways to fundamental, long-term change. In today’s business environment, there is enormous pressure on…

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Big data in the age of the telegraph

March 7, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Caitlin Rosenthal for The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. In it, she includes Daniel McCallum’s 1854 organizational design for the New York and Erie Railroad, a design that…

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How to Keep Your Star Employees

March 7, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Kasey Wehrum for Inc. magazine. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain information about subscription discounts, please click here. * * * Each day, Inc.‘s reporters scour the…

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Daniel Goleman: Focus on the problem, not the person

March 6, 2013

Here’s a brief article written by Daniel Goleman and featured by LinkedIn. * * * Think back to a difficult situation you had to navigate at work. Were you able to distinguish the problem from the person? If not, you’re…

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Margaret Heffernan on “Narcissism: The problem with ‘bold’ leadership”

March 6, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Margaret Heffernan 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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12 Ways to Be the Leader Everyone Wants to Work For

March 5, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Jeff  Schmitt for Forbes magazine. To read the complete article, check out other resources, obtain subscription information, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * * It’s not…

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One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students: How Khan Academy Is Reinventing Education

March 5, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Michael Noer for Forbes magazine. To read the complete article, check out other resources, obtain subscription information, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * * The…

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Embrace Work-Life Imbalance

March 4, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR…

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Global Tilt and the Dexterity That Cross-Cultural Management Now Requires

March 4, 2013

I recently read Ram Charan’s latest book, Global Tilt: Leading Your Business Through the Great Economic Power Shift, whose title refers to the fact that “the world has tilted. Its economic center has shifted from what have traditionally been called…

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4 Ways to Change the Energy Conversation!

March 2, 2013

Here is a guest post provided by Achim Nowak to the Great Leadership website. To learn more about the organization and its resources, please click here. * * * We love to run personality profiles on our leaders. These profiles…

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