Commentaries

How and Why to Disrupt Yourself

September 23, 2011

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 click…

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Bottling Customer Experience

September 23, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article by Theodore Kinni and featured by strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company. In it, Kinni — the co-author of Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service — introduces a lesson in creating…

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Richard Rumelt’s reflections on Apple and Steve Jobs

September 22, 2011

Here is a recent post by Richard Rumelt. He is the author Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters and the Harry and Elsa Kunin Professor of Business and Society at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.   I…

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Getting People to Decide Already

September 22, 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. Indecisiveness plagues many companies. Often, both leaders and employees struggle to make or…

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The Curse of Being a High Achiever

September 22, 2011

In the June 2011 issue of Harvard Business Review, “The Paradox of Excellence,” Thomas J. DeLong and Sara DeLong explain how and why high achievers often undermine their leadership by being afraid to show their limitations. Here are some behaviors…

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Know Your Unwritten Plan

September 21, 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. When preparing for the future, you need two plans—one you write down,…

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The Twelve Attributes of a Truly Great Place to Work

September 21, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tony Schwartz 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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Flex and Job Security: The New Balancing Act

September 20, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. “Visit us daily to discover issues that matter,…

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Ratan Naval Tata gets candid on the recently published book, Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value

September 20, 2011

Thanks to Bloomberg UTV, here is a rare opportunity to share what Ratan Naval Tata has to say about Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value, recently published by Harvard Business Review Press.  In this book on leadership,…

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Changing companies’ minds about women

September 19, 2011

Here is an excerpt from another outstanding article featured by The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, in which Joanna Barsh and Lareina Yee explain how and why leaders who are serious about getting more women into senior management…

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