Commentaries
Here is an excerpt from an article by Christine Moorman and Katie Hinkfuss for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * The authors offer…
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In Chapter 26 of their latest book, Culture Shock, Jim Clifton and Jim Harter observe, “Very few organizations in the world can say their culture is strengths-based. This is a missed opportunity. Organizations with strengths-based cultures greatly outperform their competition…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an especially interesting article by Erika Burch that I came upon at the Lifestyle-A2Z website. To read the complete article, please click here. Credit: Shutterstock * * * When you think of the different…
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The material in some articles becomes even more valuable than when it was first published. For example…. Here’s a brief excerpt from an article by Leigh Buchanan for Inc. magazine. I agree that anyone can come up with a lot…
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Kurt Vonnegut was a writer, lecturer and painter. He was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During WWII, as a prisoner of war in Germany, he witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an…
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Here is an excerpt from an article by Torbjørn Netland, Omid Maghazei,, and Michael Lewis for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * IKEA…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Abbie Lundberg for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain information about subscription rates, please click here. *…
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John E. McIntyre is the night content production supervisor at the Baltimore Sun and author of the blog You Don’t Say at Baltimoresun.com. A former president of the American Copy Editors Society, he teaches editing at Loyola University Maryland. Here…
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Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on March 27, 1963. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother…
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IBM — Shades of Yogi Berra!
Yoga Berra is arguably the greatest catcher in the history of Major League Baseball, although Johnny Bench and Ivan (“Pudge”) Rodriguez certainly have their advocates. Berra is more widely known for his unique way of expressing his thoughts. He insists…
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