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Help Your Team Face Uncertainty by Acknowledging It

July 19, 2017

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. * * * Uncertainty, whether it’s due to a reorganization at your company…

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Make Time for Little Tasks That Have to Get Done

July 11, 2017

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. * * * Everyone has those small but necessary tasks — clearing out…

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Paid to Think: A book review by Bob Morris

July 11, 2017

Paid to Think: A Leader’s Toolkit for Redefining Your Future David Goldsmith with Lorrie Goldsmith BenBella Books (2012) A one-volume library of business information, insights, and wisdom Note: The title is somewhat misleading because the scope and depth of the…

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Lt. Gen. Nadja Y. West (the Army surgeon general) in “The Corner Office”

July 7, 2017

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Lt. Gen. Nadja Y. West,…

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Want To Build A Better Training Strategy? Ask Your Customers.

June 30, 2017

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Julie Winkle Giulioni for Halogen Software’s TalentSpace blog. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. *…

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Chip Bergh (chief executive of Levi Strauss) in “The Corner Office”

June 29, 2017

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Chip Bergh, chief executive of…

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The STAR Model: Close the Saying-Doing Gap to Build a High-Performing Team

June 24, 2017

The Executive Education and Center for Leadership and Change Management programs at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania continue to generate an abundance of valuable material for executives in need of cutting edge thinking. Nao Tools offer an…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions: A book review by Bob Morris

June 23, 2017

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions  Various Contributors and Editors of Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Press (2013 Learn why bad decisions happen to good managers — and how to make better ones This is one in a series…

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Booz & Company’s “The Thought Leader Interview” Series: Sylvia Nas

June 13, 2017

Here is the introduction to an interview of Sylvia Nasar by Rob Norton as part of “The Thought Leader Interview” series featured by strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company. To read the complmail alerts, and obtain subscription information, please…

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Steven Wright: A Contemporary Philosopher

June 9, 2017

These are among my favorites from Steven Wright’s observations: 1. You can’t have everything. Where would you put it? 2. I was once walking through the forest alone, and a tree fell right in front of me—and I didn’t hear…

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