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Exercising Your  Brain to Achieve Cognitive Fitness: A Personal Program

January 8, 2018

In their classic HBR article, “Cognitive Fitness” (November 2007), Roderick Gilkey and Clint Kilts explain how to exercise your brain. Here is a brief excerpt. o     o     o So how can you become cognitively fit? Drawing selectively from the…

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Leading from Within: A book review by Bob Morris

January 8, 2018

Leading from Within: Conscious Social Change and Mindfulness for Social Innovation Gretchen Ki Steidle MIT Press (October 2017) How mindfulness can “enhance social impact as well as ensure sustainability for self, others, and the planet” As I began to read…

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When Designing an A/B Test, Pick Your Metrics Ahead of Time

January 7, 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. *     *     * A/B testing has become a popular way…

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Draft No.4: A book review by Bob Morris

January 7, 2018

Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process John McPhee Farrar, Strauss & Giroux (September 2017) “Actually, the essence of the process is revision.” I have read many of John McPhee’s previously published books and consider him to be among the…

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Always Negotiate Your Salary (Even If It’s Your First Job)

January 6, 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. *     *      * When you get your first job offer,…

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Jeffrey Bussgang on Entering StartUpLand: An interview by Bob Morris

January 5, 2018

Jeffrey Bussgang is a venture capitalist, entrepreneur and entrepreneurship professor at Harvard Business School (HBS). His venture capital firm, Flybridge Capital Partners, has over $600 million under management and made investments in over 100 technology-focused startups since inception over fifteen…

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Help Your Employees Feel Less Lonely at Work

January 5, 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. *     *     * More and more people are feeling tired and…

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HBR 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness: A book review by Bob Morris

January 4, 2018

HBR 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness: A book review by Bob Morris HBR Editions & Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2017) How those who possess the right stuff can accelerate their personal growth and professional development This is…

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Why it’s so important to nourish a child’s curiosity

January 4, 2018

In Draft No. 4, John McPhee shares what he has learned about the process of writing. Thus far, he has created 32 volumes of general non-fiction, all published by Farrar Strauss Giroux, and hundreds of articles for Time magazine, then…

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14 amazing and lesser known historical facts

January 3, 2018

While surfing recently, I came upon a website that was new to me: One Minute List. Here is one of its several dozen lists: 1. The shortest war, The Anglo-Zanzibar war (1896) on record lasted for 38 minutes. 2. Saddam…

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