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Wilford Brimley in a scene from “Absence of Malice.” “I’m never the leading man,” he said in 1993. “I never get the girl. And I never get to take my shirt off.” Credit…Columbia Pictures By William Grimes Wilford Brimley,…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Sven Blumberg, Thomas Delaet, and Kartikeya Swami for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign…
Read MoreHBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict Amy Gallo Harvard Business Review Press (April 2017) Cutting-edge thinking about the common sources of conflict, how people approach it differently, and how to resolve it [Note: Here’s a reprise of one of my…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by James Fallows for The Atlantic. To rread the complete article, check out others, and obtain information about deep-discount subscriptions, please click here. * * * Why did it take so long…
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Here is an excerpt from another “classsic” article written by Michael D. Watkins for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive…
Read MoreOnly Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines Thomas H. Davenport and Julia Kirby HarperBusiness/An imprint of HarperCollins (2016) How the most productive workplaces combine talented people with sophisticated machines in high-impact augmentation [Note: I…
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Ed Hess is a Professor of Business Administration, Batten Fellow and Batten Executive-in-Residence at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. He spent more than 20 years in the business world as a senior executive at…
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Essays in Biography Joseph Epstein Axios Press (2012) The more we learn about others, it seems, the better we understand ourselves…at least sometimes Frankly, I have struggled with having fewer options in combination with more discretionary time but at least…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tim Koller for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up for email alerts, please…
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