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In Top Talent: Keeping Performance Up When Business Is Down (Harvard Business Press, 2009), Sylvia Ann Hewett offers a wealth of eminently practical advice. Here are four brief excerpts: “The best way to keep your prized people engaged is to…
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Here is a brief article written Maryelser Kinmore for eHow.com: Discover the expert in you. What intrigues me about the process she explains is that, with only minor modifications, it can also be used to write almost anything else: book…
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I have just learned about a new series of DVD programs, produced by More Than Sound, and hosted by Daniel Goleman. The video collection also includes a bonus interview with Peter Senge, Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Sustainability at the MIT Sloan…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Andrew Winston for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Review’s Daily Alerts, please click here. * …
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Here is Josh Linkner‘s most recent blog post and one of his very best. During this holiday season as another New Year begins, many of us make resolutions with the high hopes and great expectations. This year, I resolved not…
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As revealed in The Best of Business, a book published by The Economist in collaboration with Pegasus Books in 2009, William Gibbs (1790-1875) became an exceptionally wealthy man by selling guano, seabird dung, that is rich in nitrates and phosphates,…
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In an article that first appeared in the Harvard Business Review in 1993, Peter Drucker identified what he characterized as “the five deadly business sins.” They are: 1. The worship of high profit margins and of “premium pricing” that always…
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In DRiVE, Daniel Pink reveals what he characterizes as “the surprising truth about what motivates us.” For example, he examines “the mismatch between what science knows and what business does. The gap is wide. Its existence is alarming. And though…
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Lily Tomlin is a comedienne, actress, and writer. She was born on September 1, 1939, in Detroit, Michigan. Over the years, she has made people laugh with her humorous characters from the child Edith Ann to the snarky operator Ernestine.…
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According to Peter Bregman, “If you want to be original, start from a different box.”
Here is an excerpt from an article written by Peter Bregman for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Review’s Daily Alerts, please click here. * …
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