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Encourage Your Team to Bring You Problems — Just Not Complaints

February 22, 2018

Here is another valuable Management Tip from Harvard Business Review.  To check out the wealth of other free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * “Bring me solutions, not problems.” Many well-meaning managers…

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The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions

February 21, 2018

  Have you been thinking about mistaken extrapolations, limited imagination, and other common mistakes that distract us from thinking more productively about the future? Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Rodney Brooks for MIT Technology Review in…

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How and why most of what we call “thinking” really isn’t

February 20, 2018

In the latest of five bestselling books, Unthinking: The Surprising Forces Behind What We Buy, Harry Beckwith shares a number of especially valuable insights and I have consolidated several of them in these two mosaics of excerpts: “We could excuse…

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The power of team diversity in the workplace

February 20, 2018

  Here is a brief, thoughtful commentary provided by BNY Mellon Wealth Management that focuses on three separate but related — and substantial — benefits of team diversity in the workplace. It is important to keep in mind that the…

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Mark Goulston on How to Deal With “Everyday Craziness”: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

February 19, 2018

In his career as an organizational consultant, relationship counselor, and hostage-negotiation trainer, Mark Goulston has found what works, consistently, to reach all kinds of people in any type of situation. In his book Real Influence: Persuade Without Pushing and Gain…

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How to Get Through to a Bad Listener

February 19, 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. *     *     * It’s frustrating to work with someone who…

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Edward (“Ned”) Hallowell: An interview by Bob Morris

February 18, 2018

Are you looking for practical, how-to solutions to life’s personal challenges? Best selling author Dr. Edward (“Ned”) Hallowell offers groundbreaking advice on how to survive in an ultra-competitive, ultra fast, attention deficit society while remaining sane, how to raise happy…

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Consider Fairness Before Granting a Flexible Work Schedule

February 18, 2018

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. . 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 Culture Code: A book review by Bob Morris

February 17, 2018

The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups Daniel Coyle Bantam Books/An imprint of Random House (January 2018) How and why “small efforts are powerful because they transmit, amplify, and celebrate the purpose of the whole group” In a…

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Bet you did not know this about President’s Day

February 17, 2018

I am grateful to the ArticlesFactory.com website for the information that follows. President’s Day is a federal holiday, which is celebrated in the U.S on the third Monday of February. The holiday is dedicated to the first president, George Washington and…

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