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In The Brain, David Eagleman explains that “the inner cosmos” is an infinitely dense tangle of billons of brain cells and their trillions of connections. “I hope you’ll be able “to squint and make out something that you might not have…
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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. * * * Even if you think annual performance reviews should be abolished,…
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Do It, Mean It, Be It: The Keys to Achieve Success, Happiness and Everything You Deserve at Work and in Life Corrie Shanahan Career Press (2017) “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” Margaret Mead I…
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High-level benchmarks often obscure paths to operations improvements. New data and metrics that tap underlying performance dynamics offer better visibility. Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Per- Per-Magnus Karlsson, Shruti Lal, and Daniel Rexhausen for the…
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Here is an excerpt from an article by Erik Sass for the Mental Floss Studios website. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. Photo Credit: AFP/Getty Images * * * [amazon_link asins=’0062792148,B07444VZ63,0571336256′ template=’ProductCarousel’ store=’bobmorris1-20′ marketplace=’US’…
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Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Michel Feaster, the chief executive…
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[amazon_link asins=’0062371606′ template=’Lead-ProductAd-image’ store=’bobmorris1-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’c42edc7e-8f3a-11e7-82fa-59ae99aff807′] Simple Sabotage: A Modern Field Manual for Detecting and Rooting Out Everyday Behaviors That Undermine Your Workplace Robert Galford, Bob Frisch, and Cary Greene HarperOne At the height of World War II the U.S. Office…
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[amazon_link asins=’0814438601′ template=’Lead-ProductAd-image’ store=’bobmorris1-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’b9858e36-8f51-11e7-b6a8-a363a00ac3de’] Driving Digital: The Leader’s Guide to Business Transformation Through Technology Isaac Sacolick AMACOM (August 2017) All organizations need leaders willing and able to “take on the challenges of driving business and digital transformation” In…
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In the updated and expanded edition of Competing on Analytics (first published in 2007), Tom Davenport and Jeanne Harris focus on an important lesson: “Extracting value from information is not primarily a matter of how much data you have or…
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The First Labor Day
Before I began some research on the subject, I did not know that, until Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894, laborers who chose to participate in parades to celebrate anything had to forfeit a day’s wages. I am…
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