Commentaries

William Deresiewicz on Toys and Joys

April 20, 2012

Here is a mini-essay in which William Deresiewicz offers a major endorsement of “the joys of the soul.” He has a weekly column, “All Points,” at The American Scholar magazine website. *     *     * In a 2008 essay in…

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How to Get Your Team Thinking Like Entrepreneurs

April 20, 2012

  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. *     *     * Teams in large organizations can easily get tangled in bureaucracy. …

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Josh Linkner: “Aim Up, Compare Down”

April 19, 2012

Here’s a recent post by Josh Linkner at his website. To check out the wealth of resources that he provides, please click here. *     *     * A good friend of mine said something to me at dinner this week that…

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Here are 6 keys to your employees’ hearts

April 18, 2012

Here is an article written by Michael Hess for CBS MoneyWatch, the CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the website’s newsletters, please click here. *    …

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Do you dare to fail?

April 17, 2012

Here is an article written by Margaret Heffernan for CBS MoneyWatch, the CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the website’s newsletters, please click here.…

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How to Run a Decisive Project Meeting

April 17, 2012

  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. *     *     * To keep momentum in a project, you…

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“It’s never too late to be great….”

April 16, 2012

Tom Butler-Bowdon has only recently received in the United States the attention and appreciation that he so richly deserves. Years ago, he formulated his “50 Classics” concept,  based on the idea that “every subject or genre will contain at least 50…

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Welcome to Thinkers50, one of the best online sources for brain food

April 15, 2012

Thinkers50 offers the definitive global ranking of management thinkers and is published every two years. The 2009 winner was CK Prahalad. The ranking is based on voting at the Thinkers50 website and input from a team of advisers led by…

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Strategies for Learning from Failure

April 14, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Amy C. Edmondson 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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The New Science of Building Great Teams

April 13, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Alex “Sandy” Pentland 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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