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M. Tamra Chandler on “How Performance Management Is Killing Performance”: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

March 5, 2017

Tamra Chandler is a bona fide people maven. This means she’s someone who has spent the majority of her career thinking about people, researching how they’re motivated, and developing new and effective ways for organizations to achieve the ultimate win-win:…

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Risk: Seeing around the corners

March 5, 2017

Risk-assessment processes typically expose only the most direct threats facing a company and neglect indirect ones that can have an equal or greater impact. Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Eric Lamar and Martin Pergler for…

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Jeff Fox on “Small But Very Expensive Mistakes”

March 4, 2017

Jeff Fox is one of the most creative as well as one of the most practical business thinkers I know. How’s this for a background? “Grew up in a small town. Saw Mickey Mantle hit several home runs at Yankee…

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Why Combine Your Customer and Employee Feedback Systems?

March 4, 2017

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. * * * Most companies ask customers for feedback about their products and…

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Samuel Bacharach on “The Agenda Mover”: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

March 3, 2017

Samuel B. Bacharach is the co-founder of the New York City based Bacharach Leadership Group (BLG) and is also the McKelvey-Grant professor in the department of organizational behavior at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). Working with…

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Being Engaged at Work Is Not the Same as Being Productive

March 3, 2017

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ryan Fuller and Nina Shikaloff 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…

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The Best Data Scientists Get Out and Talk to People

March 2, 2017

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Thomas C. Redman 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…

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Samuel Bacharach on “The Agenda Mover”: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

March 2, 2017

Samuel B. Bacharach is the co-founder of the New York City based Bacharach Leadership Group (BLG) and is also the McKelvey-Grant professor in the department of organizational behavior at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). Working with…

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Joe Pulizzi on the Power of Content Marketing: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

March 1, 2017

Joe Pulizzi is an entrepreneur, speaker, author, podcaster, father and lover of all things orange. He’s the founder of multiple startups, including the Content Marketing Institute (CMI), the leading content marketing educational resource for enterprise brands, recognized as the fastest…

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The Medici Effect: A book review by Bob Morris

March 1, 2017

The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation Frans Johansson Harvard Business Review Press (March 2017) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African proverb This is…

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