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Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers

April 2, 2019

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Herminia Ibarra, Robin J. Ely, Deborah M. Kolb for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription…

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10 Brainteasers to Stretch Your Brain

April 2, 2019

  Here’s a list compiled by Holly Green, shared in an article for Forbes magazine. * * * Earlier this year, I posted a blog entitled “Tease Your Brain.”  It offered 10 brainteasers that showed how our preconceived notions, combined…

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Reimagining mobility: A CEO’s guide

April 2, 2019

  Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Kersten Heineke, Asutosh Padhi, Dickon Pinner, and Andreas Tschiesner for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more…

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Why a One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Employee Development Doesn’t Work

April 1, 2019

 Here is an excerpt from an article written by Sydney Finkelstein 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 click here.…

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The defining characteristics of a “best team”

April 1, 2019

In an appendix to Nine Lies About Work, Roanne Bisby Davis and Ashley Goodall explain, “Four years ago, the human resources team at Cisco set out to measure the world of work as carefully and reliably as possible. Since then,…

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Loonshots: A book review by Bob Morris

March 31, 2019

Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries Safi Bahcall St. Martin’s Press (March 2019) If an idea doesn’t sound loony, it probably needs much more development…and protection. In this compellingly entertaining as…

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What makes a CEO “exceptional”?

March 31, 2019

  Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Michael Birshan, Thomas Meakin, and Kurt Strovink for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the…

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Stop Eliminating Perfectly Good Candidates by Asking Them the Wrong Questions

March 30, 2019

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Nilofer Merchant 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 click…

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Frank Wilczek on the unity of intelligence

March 30, 2019

In Possible Minds, Frank Wilczek is one of 25 thought leaders who address the promise and peril of AI. Here are three of his most influential observations: 1. “Francis Crick called it ‘the Astonishing Hypothesis’: That consciousness, also known as…

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The Last Word: A Celebration of Genius

March 29, 2019

  The New York Times has created a truly unique and invaluable series of profiles — on videotape — of famous people just before their death. They include (in alpha order) Edward Albee, Barbara Bush, John Glenn, Stephen Hawking, Hugh…

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