Commentaries

How To Apply the 80/20 Rule At Work

November 7, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Nate Steere for mint.com. When I stumbled upon it, I was informed that Mint “makes your life easier. At Mint, we believe money is for living. So we make everything simple…

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Tony Schwartz on “What Women Know about Leadership that Men Don’t”

November 7, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tony Schwartz 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. *     *     * No…

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How to Build a Better Innovation Team

November 7, 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. *     *     * No matter how great your idea, your innovation effort will…

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Michael J. Mauboussin on “The True Measures of Success”

November 6, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Michael J. Mauboussin for the Harvard Business Review blog. 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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Business Leadership Lessons from the Military

November 5, 2012

Military work — like business — is risky, pressured, and fast-changing. It calls for absolute clarity about the mission, extraordinary adaptability, and precise management of complex systems. To those such as I with a special interest in business lessons to…

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Morten T. Hansen on “Ten Ways to Get People to Change”

November 5, 2012

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Morten T. Hansen for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email…

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From Calm Leadership, Lasting Change

November 3, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Nancy F. Koehn that appeared in The New York Times in which she discusses Rachel Carson, one of the great heroines of the 20th century whose heritage was multi-faceted and…

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Bill George on “The Idea That Led to 10 Years of Double-Digit Growth”

November 2, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Bill George 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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World’s 50 Best Business School Professors

November 1, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Andrea Carter and featured by the Poets & Quants website. To read the complete article and check out all the other resources (including videos), please click here. * * *…

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Mining Big Data to Find New Markets: A Harvard Business Review Webinar Conclusions Paper

October 31, 2012

This webinar conclusions paper by Harvard Business Review explores the topic of “big data” and how companies today are mining big data to develop insights and identify micromarkets that represent opportunities for remarkable growth. McKinsey consultants and co-authors Manish Goyal…

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