Commentaries

Grow Your Company as Big as Zappos.com: 7 Tips From Tony Hsieh

November 19, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article  written by Allison Fass and published by Inc. magazine in which Tony Hsieh, serial entrepreneur and CEO of Zappos.com, offers leadership advice for fast-growing companies. To read the complete article, please click here. *  …

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Here’s a Better Way to Brainstorm in Groups

November 17, 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. * * * Brainstorming has gotten a bad rap for leading to…

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Vijay Govindarajan on “The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals”

November 17, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Vijay Govindarajan 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…

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Josh Linkner on “Waste on the Shop Room Floor”

November 17, 2012

Here is another brief but thoughtful and thought-provoking post by Josh at this website. If you really want to put some white caps on your gray matter, check out his most recent book, Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive…

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The best innovators are need seekers

November 16, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article in which Gijs van Wulfen discusses the result of a Booz & Company study and shares his own thoughts about why and how innovators are need seekers. To heck out the study, please…

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Dorie Clark on “How Nate Silver Won the 2012 Presidential Election”

November 15, 2012

As President Obama and Mitt Romney can tell you, it’s getting harder every day to win public attention — thus, the billions they spent on this year’s presidential campaign. Overall, the election of 2012 has shown that we’re at a…

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Here’s an Important Innovation Lesson: Disrupt Before You’re Disrupted

November 15, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Patrick Houston and published by InformationWeek. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * Even innovators struggle with the pace of change. Here are some of the…

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How “social intelligence” can guide decisions

November 15, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article from The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company and written by Martin Harrysson, Estelle Metayer, and Hugo Sarrazin, in which they explain why, by offering decision makers rich real-time data, social…

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Nancy Koehn on “Ernest Shackleton’s Lessons for Leaders in Harsh Climates”

November 14, 2012

Background: After the race to the South Pole ended in 1912 with Roald Amundsen’s conquest, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874–1922) turned his attention to what he said was the one remaining great object of Antarctic journeying—the crossing of the continent…

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Chris Murphy on “How Do You Survive the Innovation Hamster Wheel?”

November 14, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Chris Murphy and published by InformationWeek magazine. To read the complete article, please click here. This is how two tech leaders do it, and we’d like to hear more tactics from you.…

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