Uncategorized

To Find Meaning in Your Work, Change How You Think About It

February 1, 2018

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Coleman forHarvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts, please…

Read More

Don’t Solve Your Team’s Problems for Them

January 29, 2018

  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. * * * If your team is constantly bringing issues to you…

Read More

Ernest Shackleton: A mini-profile of extraordinary courage

January 27, 2018

Here is a brief but insghtful profile of Ernest Shackleton provided by bbc.online. Ernest Henry Shackleton was born on 15 February 1874 in County Kildare, Ireland. His father was a doctor. The family moved to London where Shackleton was educated. Rejecting…

Read More

Four Lenses Through Which to View Adverse Events

January 23, 2018

In their classic HBR article, “How to Bounce Back from Adversity” (January 2001), Joshua D. Margolis and Paul Stoltz offer some  excellent advice that all decision-makers can apply when it is needed. Here is a brief excerpt. * *     *…

Read More

When Designing an A/B Test, Pick Your Metrics Ahead of Time

January 7, 2018

  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. *     *     * A/B testing has become a popular way…

Read More

Always Negotiate Your Salary (Even If It’s Your First Job)

January 6, 2018

  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. *     *      * When you get your first job offer,…

Read More

Jeffrey Bussgang on Entering StartUpLand: An interview by Bob Morris

January 5, 2018

Jeffrey Bussgang is a venture capitalist, entrepreneur and entrepreneurship professor at Harvard Business School (HBS). His venture capital firm, Flybridge Capital Partners, has over $600 million under management and made investments in over 100 technology-focused startups since inception over fifteen…

Read More

Why it’s so important to nourish a child’s curiosity

January 4, 2018

In Draft No. 4, John McPhee shares what he has learned about the process of writing. Thus far, he has created 32 volumes of general non-fiction, all published by Farrar Strauss Giroux, and hundreds of articles for Time magazine, then…

Read More

What do you think?

January 2, 2018

  During the recent holiday season, I re-examined the book reviews, interviews, and commentaries I posted in 2017. Now another calendar year has begun and I am eager to receive any comments, suggestions, and/or questions you may have. How helpful…

Read More

The Industrial Revolution: Bet You Didn’t Know

November 28, 2017

History.com is one of the best online sources for history material. For example: The Industrial Revolution, which took place from the 18th to 19th centuries, was a period during which predominantly agrarian, rural societies in Europe and America became industrial…

Read More