Commentaries

12 Jobs on the Brink: Will They Evolve or Go Extinct?

December 16, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Heather Dugan who is a contributing writer to Salary.com. Find out if your current job — or the one you are preparing for — is on the “Endangered Occupations List.”…

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How to Be Assertive While Being Yourself

December 16, 2012

  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. * * * If you’re reserved, you’ve likely been told you need…

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The Collected Wisdom of Warren Buffett

December 15, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Michael Moritz. I have read and reviewed almost all of the books and read dozens of articles about Warren Buffett. He is among the very few business thinkers who have…

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Where the Jobs Will (and Won’t) Be In 2013

December 15, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Susan Adams for Forbes magazine. She is its deputy leadership editor. To read the complete article, check out other resources, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please…

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Innovate by Looking for Problem Patterns

December 14, 2012

Here is another in a series of videos produced by HBR during which major thought leaders discuss especially important business subjets. During this program, Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School Professor, explains how to approach innovation creatively by studying the problem…

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Have you heard any good paraprosdokians lately?

December 13, 2012

Winston Churchill loved paraprosdokians, figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected — and frequently humorous. For example: 1. Where there’s a will, I want to be in it. 2. The…

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How to Capture Your Audience Right Away

December 13, 2012

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. * * * A successful presentation relies on an engaged audience, which you…

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Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action

December 12, 2012

This is another video from TED, in this instance one during which Simon Sinek shares his thoughts about how great leaders inspire action. He has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and…

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Always Question Assumptions about Talent

December 12, 2012

Should your talent management systems attract, retain and develop the elite few or focus on improving median performers? That is a question to which John Boudreau responds in an article written for Talent Management magazine. Here is a brief excerpt.…

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Scott Weiss on “Authentic Leadership”

December 11, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from a recent article by Scott Weiss, one of the most thoughtful and thought-provoking thinkers in the business world. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. * * * “There…

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