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Margaret Heffernan produced programmes for the BBC for 13 years. She then moved to the US where she spearheaded multimedia productions for Intuit, The Learning Company and Standard&Poors. She was Chief Executive of InfoMation Corporation, ZineZone Corporation and then iCast…
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Thank you, IMDb and Wikipedia, for providing a wealth of information about the entertainment world. For example, the life and work of Laurence Olivier. Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor…
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For years on this national holiday, I have posted a list of the number of men and women in the military services who were killed during each of the wars in which the United States has been involved. My sources…
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Here is an excerpt from the transcript of a conversation during which McKinsey senior partner Harry Robinson joins CEOs to discuss what it takes to truly transform an organization. The article appeared in the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey &…
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High-Tech High-Touch Recruiting: How to Attract and Retain the Best Talent By Improving the Candidate Experience Barbara Bruno KoganPage Limited (September 2020) How to master the high-tech/high-touch approach to recruiting I cannot recall a prior time when organizations had a…
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Avid Reader: A Life Robert Gottlieb Farrah, Straus and Giroux (2016) Self-portrait of a remarkable life that continues to be driven and nourished by reading Since childhood, Robert Gottlieb has been an avid reader of books and those who write…
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Warren G. Bennis was University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. He also was the chairman of the board of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University’s Kennedy…
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Here is an excerpt from an article by Jennifer Ackerman for The New York Times in which she explains why so many people want to return to their lives and livelihoods without sacrificing the natural world that supports us in…
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The Practice: Shipping Creative Work Seth Godin Portfolio/Penguin (November 2020) Once again, Seth Godin shares “everything you need to make magic” So far, Seth Godin has created nineteen international bestsellers and will probably create another dozen or two in the…
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Peernovation: What Peer Advisory Groups Can Teach Us About Building High-performing Teams Leo Bottary Archway Publishing (October 2020) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African proverb In his earlier book,…
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