Commentaries

Jeff Bezos’s Peculiar Management Tool for Self-Discipline at Amazon Meetings

January 6, 2023

Here is an article originally published by the I Done This Blog in 2017. Two years later, fresh advice for managers was added. * * * The modern workplace’s vogue is informal information exchange. We sit in open floor plan offices so that…

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Turn Your Teams Inside Out

January 4, 2023

  Here is an excerpt from an article by Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Credit: Pep Boatella * *…

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Why We Make Resolutions (and Why They Fail)

January 2, 2023

Here is another “classic” New Yorker article, in this instance one written by Maria Konnikova. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain information about deep-discount subscription rates, please click here. Photograph by Harold M. Lambert / Lambert…

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The World-Changing Race to Develop the Quantum Computer

December 16, 2022

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Stephen Witt for The New Yorker. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain information about special subscription rates, please click here. Illustration Credit: Carl Burton * * *…

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People Leaders Need Data-Driven Technology Too

December 13, 2022

Here is an excerpt from an article by Don Weinstein for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * Data can help companies better understand…

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A lovely holiday card

December 12, 2022

This is one of my favorite paintings by Anna Mary Robertson (American, 1860–1961), better known as “Grandma Moses.” I first saw it on exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. According to information provided by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New…

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What Companies That Are Good at Innovation Get Right

December 12, 2022

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Scott Kirsner for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…

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How to communicate effectively in times of uncertainty

December 7, 2022

Here is an excerpt from an article written by  Ana Mendy, Mary Lass Stewart, and Kate Van Akin for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company (June 18, 2020). To read the complete article, check out others, learn more…

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Voices of CEO excellence: Morgan Stanley’s James Gorman

December 5, 2022

Here is an excerpt from the transcript of a podcast during which James Gorman, the chair and CEO of the financial services giant Morgan Stanley, explains how he reshaped the firm in the wake of the financial crisis. He is…

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Make Leader Character Your Competitive Edge

December 2, 2022

Here is an excerpt from an article by Mary Crossan, William (Bill) Furlong, and Robert D. Austin for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Credit: Gary…

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