Commentaries

How to Develop Continuous Learners

October 30, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Wendy Tan and Joo-Seng Tan for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others,  sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here.…

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Want Collaboration? Accept — and Actively Manage — Conflict

October 29, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jeff Weiss and Jonathan Hughes for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * Companies…

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Collective Genius: Becoming a More Humane Leader

October 28, 2024

Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation Linda Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, and Kent Lineback Harvard Business Review Press (2014) Valuable perspectives on the role of the leader in creating and then sustaining a culture within which…

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The 3 Things That Keep Companies Growing

October 27, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Chris Zook and James Allen for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * Growth creates…

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How to Use Distraction to Your Advantage

October 24, 2024

Your scatterbrain is great when it is time to think of new ideas. But when it comes to executing those ideas? Not so much. Here is an excerpt from an article by Christian Jarrett for 99U. To read, the complete article, check…

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Why Employees Quit

October 23, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ethan Bernstein, Michael B. Horn, and Bob Moesta for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here.…

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Face It, Your Brain Is a Computer

October 21, 2024

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Gary Marcus for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Credit: Gérard DuBois * * * Science has a poor track record…

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What’s the “secret sauce” for accelerating personal growth and professional development?

October 19, 2024

In their latest collaboration, Learning Leadership: The Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Leader, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner articulate what I characterize as the “secret sauce” for accelerating personal growth and professional development: “You have to aspire to excel. You need a set of values…

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Five Misconceptions About Creativity

October 18, 2024

Here is a classic article co-authored by Vikram Malhotra and James Manyika for The McKinsey Quarterly website (March 2011), published by McKinsey & Company. To check out all the free resources and sign up for email alerts, please click here.…

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20 Ways to Think Differently: Inside Apple’s Cultlike-Culture

October 17, 2024

Here is an article written by Steve Tobak for BNET (March 2, 2011), The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please…

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