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Five technology building blocks to power customer-centric, data-driven growth

October 25, 2021

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jason Cherok, Sean Flavin, Richard Li, and Valerie Skinner for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm,…

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Beyond Happiness: A book review by Bob Morris

October 24, 2021

Beyond Happiness: How Authentic Leaders Prioritize Purpose and People for Growth and Impact Jenn Lin Grand Central Publishing (October 2021) “Death is not the greatest loss in life…[but rather] what dies inside us while we live.” This assertion by Norman…

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The Problem with “Greedy Work”

October 23, 2021

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Gretchen Gavett 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…

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The Zambian Economist at the Crossroads of Global Business

October 23, 2021

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

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Which business books to read?

October 22, 2021

Author Talks features insightful conversations with authors on crucial management topics including leading through a crisis, unleashing innovation, achieving work-life balance, fine-tuning communication skills, coping with organizational culture shifts, and more. For this month’s best-selling business books prepared exclusively for McKinsey…

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Who was Clarence Birdseye and why is he significant?

October 21, 2021

When food is frozen slowly, at temperatures near the freezing point, ice crystals form within the animal or vegetable cells; when the food thaws, cellular fluid leaks from the damaged tissue, giving the food a mushy or dry consistency. Rapid…

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John Steele Gordon on Early-American Entrepreneurship: Frederick Tudor

October 20, 2021

Quite by accident, I came upon an especially interesting essay by John Steele Gordon (author of An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power), now featured at the Imprimis website, an online magazine published by Hillsdale College.…

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Why AI Will Never Replace Managers

October 19, 2021

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Frank Martela and Jukka Luoma 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…

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The C.E.O. Other C.E.O.s Turn to for Advice

October 19, 2021

Here is another superb article from David Gelles for The New York Times in which he shares his conversation with Rich Lesser. He  has run Boston Consulting Group for eight years and is stepping down at a moment of enormous…

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The wit and wisdom of E.B. White

October 18, 2021

Elwyn Brooks White (1899 – 1985) was an American writer. He was the author of several highly popular books for children, including Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte’s Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). In a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, Charlotte’s Web came in first in their…

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