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The New Rules of Work: The Muse Playbook for Navigating the Modern Workplace Alexandra Cavoulacos and Kathryn Minshew Currency/An Imprint of Random House (2019) To paraphrase Alan Kay, “The best way to predict the new rules of work is to…
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Connect First: 52 Simple Ways to Ignite Success, Meaning, and Joy at Work Melanie Katzman McGraw-Hill (October 2019) Enlightening perspectives on personal growth and professional development As I began to read this book, I was again reminded of another, The…
Read MoreHere 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. * * * When you take on a leadership role, it can…
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Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business Pamela Newkirk Bold Type Books (October 2019) How and why “a willful negation of our shared humanity” must be eliminated In Judgment Calls, Thomas Davenport and Brooke Manville explain how and…
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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. * * * Do you get real value out of feedback? Sometimes…
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Advancing the Common Good: Strategies for Businesses, Governments, and Nonprofits Philip Kotler Praeger (September 2019) Why and how all of us must nourish and strengthen “the welfare of humanity and civilization” For several decades, in the classroom as well as…
Read MoreThe novelist Lee Child at the Vedauwoo Recreation Area outside Laramie, Wyo., recently. Child, who was born in England, bought a home in the area a couple of years ago, spurred by “an immigrant’s sense that there’s always somewhere else…
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Need a briefing on the basics of giving effective feedback? Look no further. Giving Effective Feedback is one of the volumes in the 20 Minute Manager series created by the editors at Harvard Business Review Press. About 90 pages in…
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The Real Business of Blockchain: How Leaders Can Create Value in a New Digital Age David Furlonger and Christophe Uzureau Harvard Business Review Press (October 2019) Here’s a reliable roadmap for tracking profitable use of a world-changing technology David Furlonger…
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Max McKeown on why new ideas need careful nurturing
In his latest book, The Innovator’s Book, Max McKeown asserts that innovation “is about practical creativity. It’s about making new ideas into something useful. Innovators do this work. They make the previously impossible possible.” More specifically: o Innovators nurture. o…
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