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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Driek Desmet, Shahar Markovitch, and Christopher Paquette for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm,…
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The Relationship Engine: Connecting with the People Who Power Your Business Ed Wallace AMACOM (October 2016) How to develop and then enrich “relational fluency” “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but…
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Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was an English writer and best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda and film. He was a thoughtful and sensitive observer of what is often referred to as…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads: 2017 Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (November 2016) Here’s another year’s worth of management wisdom, all in one place. This is the latest volume in a series of anthologies of articles selected by the editors…
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Bill Bryson is one of my favorite writers. Here is a brief excerpt from Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (1998). “When a celebration was deemed in order, the Puritans were…
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In Lincoln on Leadership for Today: Abraham Lincoln’s Approach to Twenty-First-Century Issues, to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (February 2017), Donald Phillips observes: “Abraham Lincoln was a technology geek. He was fascinated with all kinds of new gadgets and…
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The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World Joseph L. Badaracco Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How to “raise the odds of working successfully and responsibly in the exciting, uncertain, recombiant, market-driven world around us” I read this book…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Andrew Ng 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 alerts,…
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People First Leadership: How the Best Leaders Use Culture and Emotion to Drive Unprecedented Results Eduardo P. Braun McGraw Hill Education (October 2016) How and why a leader is anyone who wishes to change reality, transform it, and make it…
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Going Out In Style: Famous Last Words Of 19 Greats
One of our three sons, Geoffrey, introduced me to an especially interesting website — All That Is Interesting (ati) — at which the resources include Camille Poiré’s “Going Out In Style: Famous Last Words Of 19 Greats.” For example, here…
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