Commentaries

Don’t Be Afraid to Hire that Overqualified Candidate

May 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. For years, the prevailing wisdom on overqualified candidates was to avoid them. But…

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Ecclesiastes, Heraclitus, and Hugh MacLeod on the current economy

May 9, 2011

As any reader of  Techmeme will know, there’s a wee bit of an investment bubble going on. People paying silly money for a piece of the Web 2.0 action. Facebook, Y Combinator, Huffington Post, the usual suspects. I’m not saying…

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We Can’t Agree to Disagree

May 9, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Nilofer Merchant 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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What do you do? “I’m a Disruptor.”

May 9, 2011

Here is a recent blog post by Josh Linkner. He is among the members of a recently formed “Greek Chorus” of iconoclastic visionaries who are challenging business leaders to re-examine their assumptions and premises, indeed everything they think they know…

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3 Steps to Choosing what to Delegate

May 9, 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. Delegation is both a critical skill that successful managers must demonstrate,…

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How to Turn Anything from Adequate to Amazing

May 7, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Bill Taylor 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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Don’t Be a Doormat: 3 Tips for the Confrontation Phobic

May 7, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jessica Stillman 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…

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Lessons from the Simmons Leadership Conference

May 7, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article contributed by Liz O’Donnell, founder and creator  of HelloLadies.com, to The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. “Visit us daily to discover issues that…

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Which business books do women seem to find most valuable?

May 7, 2011

Which business books do women seem to find most valuable? That is a question I am frequently asked. My answer is, “Books that respond directly to their most important needs, interests, objectives, etc.” (By the way, that is the same…

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For those who feel any sympathy for Osama bin Laden….

May 6, 2011
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