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How to recover from information overload

February 1, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Derek Dean and Caroline Webb for The McKinsey Quarterly (January 2011). To read the complete article, check out other resources, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Always-on, multitasking work environments are…

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How and why most of what we call “thinking” really isn’t

January 31, 2011

In the latest of five bestselling b0oks, Unthinking: The Surprising Forces Behind What We Buy, Harry Beckwith shares a number of especially valuable insights and I have consolidated several of them in these two mosaics of excerpts: “We could excuse…

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The power of a well-told story

January 31, 2011

Steve Denning, Annette Simmons, and Doug Lipman have written brilliant books on the subject of storytelling; more specifically, about how to write an effective business narrative. It is worth noting that CBS’s 60 Minutes is the longest running prime-time television show…

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WordPress 3 Site Blueprints: A book review by Bob Morris

January 31, 2011

WordPress 3 Site Blueprints: Ready-Made Plans for 9 Different Professional WordPress Sites Heather R. Wallace Packt Publishing (2010) This book has prepared me well to work with technical and graphics specialists whom I have retained to transform this website into…

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The Change Leader’s Road Map: A book review by Bob Morris

January 30, 2011

The Change Leader’s Road Map: How to Navigate Your Organization’s Transformation Linda Ackerman Anderson and Dean Anderson Pfeiffer/A Wiley Imprint (2010) I recently read the Second Edition of this book (first published in 2001) and the Second Edition of Beyond…

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The #1 Leadership Problem

January 30, 2011

Here is an article written by Margaret Heffernan for BNET (January 27, 2011), 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…

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Michael Lebowitz (Big Spaceship) in “The Corner Office”

January 30, 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 Michael Lebowitz, founder and C.E.O.…

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Remembering Challenger….

January 29, 2011

  Just before noon, eastern time, on January 28, 1986, on a subfreezing day on Merritt Island, Florida, the space shuttle Challenger exploded in a cloudless sky 73 seconds after take-off. None of the seven crew members survived. That night,…

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Marcia Reynolds: An interview by Bob Morris

January 29, 2011

Marcia Reynolds has a passion for discovering and sharing how the brain works. She speaks globally on leadership topics and coaches top talent women in making big decisions, building important relationships and showing up with strength and grace.  In addition…

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Sam Carpenter: An interview by Bob Morris

January 28, 2011

A resident of Bend, Oregon, author and speaker Sam Carpenter has been featured by hundreds of media, including NPR, ESPN radio, US News Radio, and Small Business Television. President and CEO of Centratel, the premier telephone answering service in the…

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