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What is Game Theory and why is it significant?

March 13, 2022

According to the Stanford Philosophical Encyclopedia, “Game theory is the study of the ways in which interacting choices of economic agents produce outcomes with respect to the preferences (or utilities) of those agents, where the outcomes in question might have been intended by none of the agents. The meaning…

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Harnessing the Power of Age Diversity

March 12, 2022

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Megan W. Gerhardt, Josephine Nachemson-Ekwall, and Brandon Fogel for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information,…

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Which metrics REALLY drive total returns to shareholders?

March 11, 2022

Here is a brief article written by Vartika Gupta, Tim Koller, and Peter Stumpner for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up for email…

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How to be an excellent CEO: Be your most effective self

March 11, 2022

Feel like you have an ever-growing pile of things to do and never enough time to get it all done? Here’s how the most successful CEOs deal with that problem: They of course ensure everything that needs to get done…

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The New Gold Standard: A book review by Bob Morris

March 9, 2022

The New Gold Standard: 5 Leadership Principles for Creating a Legendary Customer Experience Courtesy of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company Joseph A. Michelli McGraw-Hill (2008) Lessons to be learned from the paragon of legendary customer  service  Does your organization need to…

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All Are Welcome: A book review by Bob Morris

March 9, 2022

All Are Welcome: How to Build a Real Workplace Culture of Inclusion that Delivers Results Cynthia Owyoung McGraw Hill (February 2022) “Your people won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Theodore Roosevelt Maya Angelou…

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The Chief of CVS Health Wants to Be Part of People’s ‘Everyday Life’

March 8, 2022

Here is another superb article from David Gelles for The New York Times in which he shares his conversation with Karen S. Lynch. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain information about deep-discount subscriptions, please click here.…

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Low-Hanging Fruit: A book review by Bob Morris

March 7, 2022

Low-Hanging Fruit: 77 Eye-Opening Ways to Improve Productivity and Profits Jeremy Eden and Terri Long Wiley (2014) How to “get a good cash crop yield from business innovation” Years ago, I helped a Fortune 50 company establish an electronic suggestion…

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What you may not know about Martin Scorcese

March 7, 2022

I am again deeply grateful to IMDb for providing an abundance of information about Martin Scorcese‘s life and work. He was born on November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York City, to Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) and Charles Scorsese, who both worked…

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Connectable: A book review by Bob Morris

March 6, 2022

Connectable: How Leaders Can Move Teams from Isolated to All In Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen McGraw Hill (March 2022) The power and impact of thinking in terms of first-person PLURAL pronouns Why did Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van…

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