Commentaries

12 Ways to Be the Leader Everyone Wants to Work For

March 5, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Jeff  Schmitt for Forbes magazine. To read the complete article, check out other resources, obtain subscription information, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * * It’s not…

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One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students: How Khan Academy Is Reinventing Education

March 5, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Michael Noer for Forbes magazine. To read the complete article, check out other resources, obtain subscription information, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * * The…

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Embrace Work-Life Imbalance

March 4, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR…

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Global Tilt and the Dexterity That Cross-Cultural Management Now Requires

March 4, 2013

I recently read Ram Charan’s latest book, Global Tilt: Leading Your Business Through the Great Economic Power Shift, whose title refers to the fact that “the world has tilted. Its economic center has shifted from what have traditionally been called…

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4 Ways to Change the Energy Conversation!

March 2, 2013

Here is a guest post provided by Achim Nowak to the Great Leadership website. To learn more about the organization and its resources, please click here. * * * We love to run personality profiles on our leaders. These profiles…

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Literally, one of history’s coolest ideas

March 2, 2013

In Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation published by Riverhead Books/Penguin (2010), Steven Johnson examines the origin and development of what is quite literally one of history’s coolest ideas: the air conditioner. Based in Brooklyn, the Sackett-Wilhelm Lithography Company…

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Metacognition: How to read, understand, and retain much more in much less time

March 1, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by J.N. Chaney for Cracked.com, the most visited humor website in the world, with over 300 million monthly page views. The award-winning site was founded in 2007 by Jack O’Brien and…

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How to Use Questions to Build Your Case

March 1, 2013

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. * * * When making a case for something, you’ll have an easier…

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3 Ways to Get People to Change

February 28, 2013

  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. *     *     * You can change strategy, products, and processes all you want, but…

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70+ Lessons that Influenced the Top Minds in Business

February 28, 2013

        The concept is brilliant, in part, because it is so simple: ask some of the most accomplished people in business share the secrets to their success — the best advice they’ve ever received. The result is…

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