Commentaries

Nicholas Carr: Schools should beware the e-book bandwagon

August 7, 2011

  In an article featured by the Dallas Morning News (“Our fleeting focus,” Sunday, August 7, 2011), Nicholas Carr says that, given what we know now, schools should be wary of replacing textbooks with e-readers. I agree. In fact, I…

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A Brand is Bigger Than Performance

August 7, 2011

Here is an article written by Nigel Hollis for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. *    …

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Three Integrity Questions for Leaders

August 6, 2011

Here is an excerot from an article written by Alaina Love and featured by the BloombergBusinessweek website (August 6, 2011) To check out all the resources, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. *     *    …

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Paula Marantz Cohen on how to make books spark to life for college students

August 5, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Paula Marantz Cohen and featured by The American Scholar magazine. As you probably know already, The American Scholar is the venerable but lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history,…

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How to Cope with Your Incompetent Boss

August 5, 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. Everyone complains about his or her boss from time to time.…

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Servants who lead or leaders who serve?

August 4, 2011

Robert K. Greenleaf is generally credited with developing ideas we now refer to as “servant leadership.” As he explains in his eponymous essay (first published in 1970), and later developed into a book, “The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with…

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Don’t Be Blinded By Common Recruitment Myths

August 4, 2011

Here is an article written by Paul Harty for Talent Management magazine (8/4/11). To check out all the resources and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and Chief Learning Officer magazines published by MedfiaTec, please click here.…

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Why Being Certain Means Being Wrong

August 3, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ted Cadsby 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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How using brain science can help to achieve peak performance by completing the Cycle of Excellence

August 2, 2011

A graduate of Harvard College and Tulane School of Medicine, Edward M. (“Ned”) Hallowell is a child and adult psychiatrist and the founder of The Hallowell Center for Cognitive and Emotional Health. He was a member of the faculty of…

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Five myths about how to create jobs

August 2, 2011

The website of McKinsey & Company’s McKinsey Quarterly continues to feature some of the most valuable material concerning major issues, such as job creation. In the article that follows (first published in February, 2010), James Manyika and Byron Auguste identify…

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