Commentaries

Top executives need feedback—here’s how they can get it

October 11, 2011

Here is an excerpt from another outstanding article written by Robert Steven Kaplan and made available by The McKinsey Quarterly at its website. To read the complete article, check out other resources, and sign up for free email alerts, please…

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4 Biggest Lies About Social Media

October 11, 2011

Here is an article written by Penelope Trunk 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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Encourage Push Back

October 10, 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. Deference to authority is deeply engrained in most of us. As a…

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6 Lessons We Could Learn from Steve Jobs

October 9, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Margaret Heffernan 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…

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Where is Amadeo Giannini when we need him most?

October 7, 2011

In 1904,  Amadeo Giannini founded the Bank of Italy in San Francisco to provide personal as well as professional services to those such as recent immigrants who had been denied service from other banks. When the 1906 earthquake struck, Giannini…

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Revisiting Jim Collins

October 6, 2011

Rarely do I re-read a business book but recently made an exception with Jim Collins’ How the Mighty Fall because I wanted to correlate his five-stage process of decline with what Richard Tedlow has to say about once-great companies whose…

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Innovative Companies Demand Innovative Leaders

October 5, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen 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…

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How to Stop Making Decisions That Waste Time and Money

October 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. Many managers rely on gut instinct to make important decisions, which often leads…

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Putting Steve Jobs in perspective

October 4, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an especially insightful article written by Nancy Koehn. It is part of The Washington Post‘s recent  On Leadership roundtable exploring Tim Cook’s succession of Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple, and how to follow in…

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How to Kick the Multi-Tasking Addiction

October 4, 2011

Here is an article written by Margaret Heffernan for BNET (March 3, 2011), 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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