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To Mentor a Narcissist, Try Being Kind

April 3, 2018

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. *     *     * Working with a narcissist is hard, but mentoring…

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Ask Meaningful Questions to Help Employees Discover Their Passions

April 2, 2018

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. *     *     * Employees who are enthusiastic about their work are…

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People Don’t Want to Be Compared with Others in Performance Reviews. They Want to Be Compared with Themselves

April 2, 2018

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jinseok Chun, Joel Brockner, and David De Cremer 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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Easter Sunday

April 1, 2018

  Just before he was executed by the Gestapo for his condemnation of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi regime, Dietrich Bonhoeffer composed this brief prayer in his prison cell: “O God, early in the morning I cry to you. Help…

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4 key AI concepts you need to understand

March 31, 2018

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Bob Friday for InfoWorld magazine. To read the complete article, check out others,and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * Artificial intelligence (AI) is taking the world by storm,…

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The Introvert’s Edge: A book review by Bob Morris

March 31, 2018

The Introvert’s Edge: How the Quiet and Shy Can Outsell Anyone Matthew Pollard AMACOM (2018) “Why should I care?” Years ago during dinner with a very prominent venture capitalist in San Francisco, I asked him how he and his colleagues…

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Who is Keith Sawyer and why is he significant?

March 30, 2018

In recent years, there have been several world-class thought leaders in the separate but interdependent fields of creativity and innovation. None is held in higher regard than Keith Sawyer. Briefly, one of the country’s leading scientific experts on creativity, Sawyer…

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20 Random Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Canada

March 30, 2018

Here is a brief article by Alicia Haque, featured by the Huffington Post. * * * Encompassing six different time zones and having the world’s longest coastline, Canada is truly enormous, which makes way for many facts and peculiarities. Here…

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What Happens When Data Scientists and Designers Work Together

March 29, 2018

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jon Wettersten and Dean Malmgren 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…

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Viva la Repartee: A book review by Bob Morris

March 29, 2018

Viva la Repartee: Clever Comebacks and Witty Retorts from History’s Great Wits and Wordsmiths Mardy Grothe Collins/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (2005) Viva Grothe! Those who have already read Grothe’s Oxymoronica will thoroughly enjoy this volume in which he shifts…

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