Commentaries

How to Put Failure in Its Proper Place

October 24, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Whitney Johnson 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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Big Data: The Management Revolution

October 24, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfss for the Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email…

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How and Why Frameworks Improve Performance When Adopted at Any Level of an Organization

October 23, 2012

Here’s the latest head’s up from APQC (American Productivity & Quality Center) with a generous offer to download a very important article. *      *      * The goal: To improve performance at all levels and in all areas…

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Quotations from and for lovers of books

October 23, 2012

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”  Marcus Tullius Cicero “So many books, so little time.”  Frank Zappa “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”  Groucho Marx…

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20 Lessons Internet Marketers Can Learn from Warren Buffett

October 22, 2012

Here is an article written two years ago by “Tyler” for seohosting.com. To read the complete article, click here. *     *     * As Alice Schroeder explains at the end of her book, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the…

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Valuable Links to Free TED Resources

October 21, 2012

TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences —…

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Closing the Great Skills Divide

October 20, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Susan Cantrell, Catherine Farley, and David Smith 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…

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What Really Alienates Top Performers

October 20, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Steven DeMaio 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 here. *     *    …

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How Women Lead: A book review by Bob Morris

October 20, 2012

How Women Lead: The 8 Essential Strategies Successful Women Know  Sharon Hadary and Laura Henderson McGraw-Hill (2013) What all of us can learn from the strategies that women use to achieve success   Actually, the eight strategies that Sharon Hadary and Laura Henderson…

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How to Make Your Big Idea Really Happen

October 19, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Hagel III and John Seely Brown  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 here.…

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