Commentaries

Strategy Questions to Help Your Company Survive and Thrive

April 10, 2011

To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization’s competitive strategy into day-to-day actions. That means channeling resources into the right efforts, achieving the right balance between innovation and control, and getting everyone pulling in the same direction.…

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Drucker’s Lost Art of Management

April 9, 2011

Here is a recent article from the Drucker Exchange (the Dx), an online resource that hosts an on-going conversation about bettering society through effective management and responsible leadership. It is produced by the Drucker Institute, a think tank and action…

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What Separates the Extremely Successful from the Pack?

April 9, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Marcie Schorr Hirsch for Harvard Business Review’s “The Conversation” series. To read the complete article, check out other resources, and sign up for a free subscription to HBR email Alerts, please click…

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Redesigning Today’s Graduate Classroom

April 9, 2011

Here is an excerpt of an article that caught my eye, written by Leonard Cassuto and  recently published in The Chronicle of Higher Education (March 20, 2011).  With uncommon clarity, Cassuto addresses many of the issues that continue to generate…

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A five-step process to achieve and sustain peak performance

April 9, 2011

As Edward M. Hallowell explains in his most recent book, Shine: Using Brain Science to Get the Best from Your People, published by Harvard Business Review Press (2011), “Many people need help in getting rid of the obstacles in their…

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The Games Companies Play

April 8, 2011

Here is a Special Report written by Rachael King and featured online by Bloomberg Businessweek. To read the complete article, please click here. *     *     * Siemens, Hilton, and Target are using games to train workers and improve how they…

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Top 10 Management Myths

April 8, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Steve Tobak for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out the article and an abundance of other resources as swell as obtain a free subscription to one or more…

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Five Basic Tenets of Knowledge Management

April 8, 2011

I have just read and will soon review The New Edge in Knowledge: How Knowledge Management Is Changing the Way We Do Business, co-authored by Carla O’Dell and Cindy Hubert. In Chapter 3, they identify and discuss “Five Basic Tenets of…

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A Half-Century of Automotive Eyesores

April 8, 2011

  Please click here to read an article written by Damian Joseph that is featured online by Bloomberg Businessweek. There is a slide show of the “Fifty Ugliest Cars of the Past 50 Years.” Considering how many new cars are…

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Stop Chasing the Wrong Priorities

April 8, 2011

Here is an article written by Marshall Goldsmith 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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