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Here is an excerpt from an article about the first President of the United States from the George Washington/Mount Vernon website. Some of the most commonly known “facts” about George Washington are simply not true. Go beyond the mythology and…
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Digital Transformation: Survive and Thrive in an Era of Mass Extinction Thomas M. Siebel Rosetta Books (July 2019) Creative disruption and natural selection in the 21st century Years ago, Charles Darwin observed: “It is not the most intellectual of the…
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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee W.W. Norton & Company (2014) “Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny.” Opinions vary as to the timeframe of the…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jim Boehm, Nick Curcio, Peter Merrath, Lucy Shenton, and Tobias Stähle for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about…
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Here is an excerpt from an executive briefing co-authored by Jacques Bughin and Jonathan Woetzel for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up…
Read MoreThe Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business Erin Meyer PublicAffairs/Perseus Book Group (2014) How and why “a dialogue of sharing, learning, and ultimately understanding” can break through barriers to global enterprise As I began to read…
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The super tankers that transport oil must travel almost 40 miles to reverse direction. I thought of the relevance of that fact to the challenges that leaders of a Fortune 50 company face when they must make a course correction.…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Nina A. Bowman 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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Everyone Deserves a Great Manager: The 6 Critical Practices for Leading a Team Scott Miller with Todd Davis and Victoria Roos Olsson Simon & Schuster (October 2019) “So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for…
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Help People Understand Your Data by Making It Relatable
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. People can’t use data to make decisions if they don’t understand what the…
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