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Contrarian Hiring Advice to Find Your Next Superstar

August 9, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jeff Haden for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click…

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3 Things Your Company Should Do on Twitter

August 9, 2011

  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. There is no doubt that Twitter is influential: This spring, the company…

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What Kind of Misfit Are You?

August 8, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Umair Haque for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click…

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Rich Horwath: An interview by Bob Morris

August 8, 2011

Rich Horwath is a national thought-leader on strategy, having appeared on NBC, WGN, and FOX TV to discuss the strategic aspect of current issues. He is the founder and president of the Strategic Thinking Institute, a former chief strategy officer, and professor of strategy at the…

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2 Ways You Should Never Pitch an Idea

August 8, 2011

  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. Coming up with ideas is easy. Selling them to strangers is hard.…

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Nicholas Carr: Schools should beware the e-book bandwagon

August 7, 2011

  In an article featured by the Dallas Morning News (“Our fleeting focus,” Sunday, August 7, 2011), Nicholas Carr says that, given what we know now, schools should be wary of replacing textbooks with e-readers. I agree. In fact, I…

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A Brand is Bigger Than Performance

August 7, 2011

Here is an article written by Nigel Hollis for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. *    …

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Alan Trefler (Pegasystems) in “The Corner Office”

August 7, 2011

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 Alan Trefler, founder and chief…

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Strategy’s strategist: An interview with Richard Rumelt

August 6, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an interview of Richard Rumelt (November 2007) co-conducted by Dan P. Lovallo and Lenny T. Mendonca and featured by McKinsey & Company’s McKinsey Quarterly. To read the compkete interview, please click here. *     *     *…

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Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

August 6, 2011

Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership: Executive Lessons from the Bully Pulpit James M. Strock Three Rivers Press (2001) “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt I selected the quotation for the title of my review…

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