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Motivating Employees Is Not About Carrots or Sticks

January 7, 2022

Here is a brief article written by Lisa Lai for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts, please click here. Credit: …

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HBR 10 Must Reads on AI, Analytics, and the New Age: A book review by Bob Morris

January 6, 2022

HBR’s 10 Must Reads On AI, Analytics, and the New Machine Age HBR Editors and Various Other Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (February 2019) How New Technologies Such as AI Will Transform Most Companies Within the Next Three Years This is…

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Jim Barksdale’s “Three Rules of Snakes”

January 6, 2022

In What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture, Ben Horowitz shares this anecdote from his years with the Netscape organization. After Jim Barksdale became the new CEO, he introduced his way of thinking this way: “We have…

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Top 10 Most Popular Articles in The McKinsey Quarterly in 2021

January 5, 2022

Here are the first five articles. To check out any/all of the ten, please click here. * * * Let’s try this again: Because of a technical mishap, you may have received a version of this email that featured a…

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Traction: A book review by Bob Morris

January 5, 2022

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business Gino Wickman Virtual CEO (2011) Without traction, no individual or organization accomplishes anything. The material in this book has even greater value today than it did when first published ten years ago. And…

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Feedback Isn’t Enough to Help Your Employees Grow

January 4, 2022

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Peter Bregman and Howie Jacobson for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR…

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HBR 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking: A book review by Bob Morris

January 4, 2022

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2020) “Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.”  Tim Brown This book is one of the most recent volumes in…

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Wright is seldom wrong: Part 1

January 3, 2022

Here is another selection of insights (and outsights) from a very observant man, Steven Wright. o When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child. o I went…

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Leadership Levers: A book review by Bob Morris

January 3, 2022

Leadership Levers: Releasing the Power of Relationships for Exceptional Participation, Alignment, and Team Results Diana Jones Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group (November 2021) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African proverb…

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It’s that time again….

December 19, 2021

Every year since 1999 when I began to blog, I have taken a two-week break in mid-December to concentrate on celebrating the holiday season with family members and other loved ones. It’s that time again…. Best wishes to you and…

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