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When Giving Negative Feedback, Stick to the Facts

August 5, 2019

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. *     *     * Everyone needs feedback to grow. But if you deliver…

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Try Not to Take Small Annoyances at Work Personally

August 3, 2019

  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. *     *     * Sometimes the smallest action, or inaction, can have…

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How Managers Become Leaders

August 3, 2019

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Michael D. Watkins 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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4 Rules to Help Your Team Disagree Productively

August 2, 2019

  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. *     *     * Conflict can be uncomfortable, but we can’t find…

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EDNA: Narration

August 2, 2019

Many years ago when I began to teach English at the Kent School in Connecticut, I devised an acronym for my students based on two primary sources: Aristotle’s Rhetoric (4th century BCE) and Modern Rhetoric (1949) co-authored by Cleanth Brooks…

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Nincompoopery: A book review by Bob Morris

August 1, 2019

Nincompoopery: Why Customers Hate You — and How to Fix It John  R. Brandt HarperBusiness Leadership (July 2019) How to understand, design, and deliver great value for everyone involved For such a colloquial word, nincompoop actually has a very learned…

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How to Break Through an Impasse in a Meeting

August 1, 2019

  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. *     *     * What do you do when the purpose of…

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Super Thinking: A book review by Bob Morris

July 30, 2019

Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann Portfolio/Penguin (June 1919) How to develop a mind that can jump jurisdictional boundaries to create unique value J. H. Flavell was probably the first to use the…

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How Leaders Build Trust

July 30, 2019

  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. *     *     * To be effective, leaders need their team’s trust.…

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Overlooked No More: Else Ury’s Stories Survived World War II. She Did Not.

July 26, 2019

Else Ury’s books about a German girl were so beloved, readers clung to them through the upheaval of World War II and passed them on to their children. But few knew that the author had died at Auschwitz. Overlooked is…

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