Commentaries

The McKinsey Quarterly’s Top Ten: Second Quarter 2011

July 1, 2011

    In case you missed them, see which articles have been most popular with The McKinsey Quarterly‘s readers in the second quarter of this year. Here are the first five. To learn which articles ranked #6-10, read any/all of…

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Thinking INSIDE the Box

July 1, 2011

                    Photo credit: Genelet via flickr used under a creative Commons License. Here is a recent blog post by Sam Carpenter, author of Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making…

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Direct your own future or someone else will

June 30, 2011

In Flash Foresight: How to See the Invisible and Do the Impossible, written with John David Mann and published by HarperBusiness (2011),  Daniel Burrus discusses a skill that uses “the data of your five senses, as well as that intuitive…

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The power of “flash foresight”

June 30, 2011

In Flash Foresight: How to See the Invisible and Do the Impossible co-authored with John David Mann and published by Harper Business, Daniel Burrus discusses a skill that uses “the data of your five sense, as well as that intuitive…

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Retaining Your Most Engaged and Talented Employees

June 30, 2011

Here is an article written by Nisa Chitakasem for Talent Management magazine. 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 . *     *    …

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Stop Chasing Too Many Priorities

June 30, 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. Overloaded and overwhelmed is the norm these days. Most leaders feel they…

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What’s your hedgehog?

June 30, 2011

In his essay The Hedgehog and the Fox, Isaiah Berlin divides the world ‘s creatures into hedgehogs and foxes, based on an ancient Greek parable: “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” Jim Collins picks…

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Colleges should stop imitating Harvard

June 28, 2011

Here is an excerpt from a special article co-authored by Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring featured by CNN online. To read the complete article and check out a wealth of other resources, please click here. *     *     * • CNN.com’s…

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Intending to be innovative? Be sure you ask the right questions first before seeking answers

June 28, 2011

Those familiar with my book reviews, interviews, and commentaries already know that I have several favorite quotations that I use whenever appropruate. Here are two. In 1963, Peter Drucker observed that “there is surely nothing quite so useless as doing…

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3 Tips for Leading People Older Than You

June 28, 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. Seniority no longer reigns in today’s organizations. In fact, it’s not uncommon…

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