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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 one likes to manage unhappy employees. They can be…
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While exploring the resources at the IBM website, I came upon several videos that you can check out by visiting YouTube. In these videos, IBM’s SyNAPSE team explains the hardware, software and science that form the foundation of their cognitive…
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There is no shortage of business advice about how to get off to a fast start during the New Year. Not so fast. The Roman emperor, Augustus Caesar, is generally credited with offering this advice to his generals: “Festina lente.”…
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In The Economics of Integrity: From Dairy Farmers to Toyota, How Wealth Is Built on Trust & What That Means for Our Future published by harperstudio/HarperCollins, Anna Bernasek provides “a tool kit for creating more integrity anywhere in the economy. When policymakers are thinking about changing health…
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In the Introduction to Crossing the Divide, published by Harvard University Press (2009), Todd L. Pittinsky explains that allophilia is “a term for positive feelings of kinship, comfort, affection, engagement, and enthusiasm concerning members of a group different from one’s…
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Ernest Becker (1924-1974) was a cultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary scientific thinker and writer. He is probably most famous for one of his nine books, Denial of Death, published in 1973 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 (for general non-fiction)…
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Although Picasso (Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, 1881-1973) was in several respects a dreadful human being, he was nonetheless one of the great artists during the past century and remarkably quotable. These are among my personal favorites: Action is the foundational…
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For years, I have wondered about the origin of what has become an international celebration of the arrival of a new year. So I went surfing and found the material that follows, provided by Wilstar.com to which I am grateful.…
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In his latest book, Denial, Richard Tedlow provides a wealth of information and insights as he examines a number of especially interesting situation throughout U.S. history. Here’s a composite excerpt: “The United States in 1900 did not have improved roads…We…
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Martin Lindstrom on sensory branding
In Brand Sense: Sensory Secrets Behind the Stuff We Buy, Martin Lindstrom notes that “the effects of sensory branding are astounding. Yes, it’s possible to create a truly spectacular commercial or an advertising jingle you can’t get out of your…
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