Commentaries

A New Game Plan for Planning 2013

October 26, 2012

Here is an excerpt from a recent blog post by Andrea Kates in which she explains why the SWOT analysis (of Strengths, Weaknesses/Limitations, Opportunities, and Threats) is inadequate to the challenges that await in 2013 and beyond. To read the…

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David Ogilvy on effective communication

October 26, 2012

Decades ago, I read Ogilvy on Advertising and then more recently Ken Roman’s biography, The King of Madison Avenue: David Ogilvy and the Making of Modern Advertising. I highly recommend both. Here are ten memorable Ogilvy quotations that are relevant…

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Why Command-and-Control Leadership Is Here to Stay

October 26, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Herminia Ibarra 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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Jedi Mind Tricks: 17 Lesser Known Ways to Persuade People

October 26, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article by Peep Laja featured by the Conversion XL website. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * You want to be persuasive. The power to influence people to get what you want…

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Winning the $30 trillion decathlon: How to succeed in emerging markets

October 25, 2012

Here is an article from The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company and written by Yuval Atsmon, Peter Child, Richard Dobbs, and Laxman Narasimhan, in which they explazin how and why annual consumption in emerging markets will rise to…

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How to Put Failure in Its Proper Place

October 24, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Whitney Johnson 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…

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Big Data: The Management Revolution

October 24, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfss for the Harvard Business Review. 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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How and Why Frameworks Improve Performance When Adopted at Any Level of an Organization

October 23, 2012

Here’s the latest head’s up from APQC (American Productivity & Quality Center) with a generous offer to download a very important article. *      *      * The goal: To improve performance at all levels and in all areas…

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Quotations from and for lovers of books

October 23, 2012

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”  Marcus Tullius Cicero “So many books, so little time.”  Frank Zappa “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”  Groucho Marx…

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20 Lessons Internet Marketers Can Learn from Warren Buffett

October 22, 2012

Here is an article written two years ago by “Tyler” for seohosting.com. To read the complete article, click here. *     *     * As Alice Schroeder explains at the end of her book, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the…

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