Commentaries

What Executives Really Need to Know about Employee Engagement

December 9, 2011

In their employee engagement study, Elizabeth Craig of the Accenture Institute for High Performance and Lauren DeSimone of the International Consortium for Executive Development Research, explore this topic in depth. Based on research, they identify the key drivers of engagement,…

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Ten Things Only Bad Managers Say

December 9, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article for Bloomberg Businessweek online in which Liz Ryan explains how and why bad managers reveal their thoughtlessness and insensitivity by what they say and how they say it as well as by their…

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Prioritize Before Starting Your Project

December 8, 2011

  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. Launching a project before you have a good sense of all its…

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Stop Competing to Be the Best

December 5, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Joan Magretta 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…

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Strategy under uncertainty

December 2, 2011

Here is an article featured by The McKinsey Quarterly online, published by McKinsey & Company. As Hugh G. Courtney, Jane Kirkland,  and S. Patrick Viguerie explain in it, the traditional approach to strategy requires precise predictions and thus often leads…

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The Myth of Work-Life Balance

December 2, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Beeson 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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Building a Capabilities-Driven Company

December 1, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi for Talent Management magazine. To check out all the resources and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and/or Chief Learning Officer magazines published…

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How About Better Parents?

December 1, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tom Friedman and featured in the November 20, 2011, issue of  The New York Times. To read the complete article, please click here. *     *     * In recent years, we’ve been treated…

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Peter Bregman: An interview by Bob Morris

November 30, 2011

Peter Bregman is the author, most recently, of 18 Minutes: Fine Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done.  He advises and consults with CEOs and their leadership teams in organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups…

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