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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Dr. Z: A book review by Bob Morris

November 19, 2017

Dr. Z: The Lost Memoirs of an Irreverent Football Writer Paul Zimmerman with Peter King (Editor) Triumph Books (2017) A compelling self-portrait of a sportswriter who had “a real problem with authority”…or something The title of this brief commentary is…

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Peter Drucker on “the lost art of management”

October 5, 2017

Here is a recent article from the Drucker Exchange (the Dx), an online resource that hosts an on-going conversation about bettering society through effective management and responsible leadership. It is produced by the Drucker Institute, a think tank and action…

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Want to succeed in life? Be eager to go the extra mile.

October 4, 2017

In 1908, Napoleon Hill was retained by Andrew Carnegie to interview the most famous and successful men at that time, throughout the world. For the next two years, that’s what he did. Those in the U.S. included Thomas Edison, Alexander…

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The Marketing Imagination: A book review by Bob Morris

October 3, 2017

The Marketing Imagination (Expanded Edition) Theodore Levitt Free Press (1986) Do not be misled by the date of this Expanded Edition: Of the more than 27 billion books on marketing now in print, none has had a greater impact than…

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