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How Managers Become Leaders

October 4, 2020

  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…

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Only Humans Need Apply: A book review by Bob Morris

October 1, 2020

Only 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 on Hyper-Learning: An interview by Bob Morris

September 27, 2020

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: A book review by Bob Morris

September 25, 2020

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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Are they all “losers”?

September 5, 2020

Joseph Biden doesn’t think so.

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Warren Buffett: An appreciation

August 31, 2020

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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The imperatives for automation success

August 30, 2020

Here is an excerpt from an article from the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, that shares the results of an especimally impirtant study of automation. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm,…

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Kenneth Robinson on Creativity

August 25, 2020

The late Sir Kenneth Robinson (March 1950-August 2020) was a British author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education and arts bodies. He was Director of the Arts in Schools Project (1985–89) and Professor…

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Too soon, much too soon….

August 23, 2020
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Dan Kahneman and Gary Klein on strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut?

August 18, 2020

Here is an excerpt from the transcript of a conversation during which Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman and psychologist Gary Klein debate the power and perils of intuition for senior executives. It appeared in the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey &…

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