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Growing up in India, Sundar Pichai slept on the floor of a house without a refrigerator. Today, the chief executive is steering Google through the most turbulent period in its history. Here is another in a series of Corner Office interviews…
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The Spiritual Child: The New Science on Parenting for Health and Lifelong Thriving Lisa MIller St. Martin’s Press (2016) Improving the world “starts with each child, and his or her birthright: the spiritual child.” As the father of four and…
Read MoreHere is an excerpt from an article written by Erika Andersen 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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Railroader: The Unfiltered Genius and Controversy of Four-Time CEO Hunter Harrison Howard Green Page Two Books (September 2018) Here is a CEO who was large…who contained multitudes Howard Green tells his reader, “This book tells the story of [Hunter Harrison’s]…
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Retail Disruptors: The Spectacular Rise and Impact of the Hard Discounters Jan-Benedict Steenkamp with Laurens Sloot KoganPage (October 2018) With Laurens Sloot, Jan-Benedict Steenkamp lifts “the veil of secrecy covering hard discounters” During an interview of Clayton Christensen, I asked…
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Here is a brief excerpt from Thomas Friedman‘s weekly column for The New York Times in which he praises Robert Kagan’s recently published book, The Jungle Grows Back, about America’s unique role in the world. “Kagan’s core thesis, as he explained…
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The Execution Factor: The One Skill That Drives Success Kim Perell McGraw-Hill Education (September 2018) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison Leaders in any organization — whatever its size and nature may be — would be well-advised to keep…
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Here is David Gelles’ profile of Paula Schneider for The New York Times. To read the complete article and check out other resources, please click here. Credit: Mike Cohen for The New York Times * * * A breast cancer survivor…
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The Storm of Creativity Kyna Leski The MIT Press (November 2018) “Wanting to know something that you do not know is the creative process.” Kyna Leski To what does the title of this book refer? Kyna Leski suggests that a storm…
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Women in the Workplace 2018
Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Alexis Krivkovich, Marie-Claude Nadeau, Kelsey Robinson, Nicole Robinson, Irina Starikova, and Lareina Yee for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more…
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