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What to Consider Before Taking That Stretch Job

March 9, 2020

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. *     *     * A stretch job is a great opportunity to grow…

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Upstream: A book review by Bob Morris

March 8, 2020

Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen Dan Heath Avid Reader Press/An imprint of Simon & Schuster (March 2020) Never more true than it is today: “A stitch in time….” I have read and reviewed four bestsellers co-authored…

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Steve Brown on six high-impact technologies: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

March 8, 2020

As the former Futurist and Chief Evangelist at Intel Corporation, Steve Brown has more than 30 years of experience in high tech, half of that time spent in strategic planning roles where he imagined and built plans for a world…

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Congress at War: A book review by Bob Morris

March 7, 2020

Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America Fergus M. Bordewich Knopf (February 2020) Here is a political history of how the U.S. Congress fought the Civil War Abraham Lincoln was…

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Building resilient operations

March 7, 2020

Here is an excerpt from an article Written by Dominik Lelièvre, Philipp Radtke, Marta Rohr, and Rafael Westinner 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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Innovation at scale: A discussion with Beth Comstock

March 6, 2020

Here is an excerpt from the transcript of a conversation with Beth Comstock featured in an article for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and…

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Crashing Henry VIII’s Court One Last Time With Hilary Mantel

March 6, 2020

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10 Steps to Creating a Data-Driven Culture

March 6, 2020

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by David Waller 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…

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Evidence-Based Recruiting: A book review by Bob Morris

March 5, 2020

Evidence-Based Recruiting: How to Build a Company of Star Performers Through Systematic and Repeatable Hiring Practices Atta Tarki McGraw Hill (January 2020 “The team with the best players wins.” Jack Welch My own opinion is that the team with the…

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Shattering the glass screen

March 5, 2020

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Lucas Beard, Jonathan Dunn, Jess Huang, and Alexis Krivkovich for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the…

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