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In Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built published by Harper Collins (2003), Richard Tedlow devotes an entire chapter to what he characterizes as “searing” business insights. These are comparable with religious epiphanies, what George Fox…
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François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, freedom of expression, free trade and separation…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Elizabeth S. Choo, Walter Gossage and Trinity Martin for Talent Management magazine. To check out all the resources and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and/or Chief Learning…
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If you click here you can check out “The Top 100 Speeches” at the American Rhetoric website. Better yet, you can click on any/all of the 100 speeches and read the text. And even better yet, you can click on…
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In a previous blog post, I posed a question I frequently encounter: “What if I can’t afford to retain a consultant?” Then I offered to provide (at no expense, of course) some suggestions as to how to solve an especially troublesome organizational…
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As another New Year approaches, many people hope that it will bring with it new and better opportunities, a new day as bright and as promising as the one captured in this lovely photograph. According to information provided by…
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Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Every manager wants a team of dedicated employees. And yet, many bosses…
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I have recently read and then reviewed more than a dozen books whose authors discuss one or more dimensions of cognitive science. Even with the accumulation of invaluable information and insights that have increased my understanding of cognitive science, I…
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I have been collecting quotations since childhood and observations by Albert Einstein (1879-1955) are among my favorites. For example: o “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” o “Insanity is doing…
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Leon Leonwood Bean’s Integrity
Anna Bernasek is the author of The Economics of Integrity: From Darwin to Toyota, How Wealth Is Based on Trust & What That Means for Our Future, published in 2010 by harperstudio, an imprint of Harper Collins. In Chapter 6,…
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