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How IT can drive agile development

November 11, 2016

Here’s a simple idea: update your operating model to be able to build small, self-contained teams that create change quickly and efficiently. I urge you to check out brief excerpt from a podcast transcript created for the McKinsey Quarterly, published…

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The Perils of Personal Depth

November 10, 2016

In The Mosaic Principle: The Six Dimensions of a Remarkable Life and Career published by PublicAffairs (November 2016), Nick Lovegrove observes that “each of us does have a choice: greater breadth or greater depth. In today’s world, there are intensifying…

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How to Get Two Very Different Teams to Collaborate

November 10, 2016

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 easy to assume that because two teams are part…

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Disruptive Marketing: A book review by Bob Morris

November 9, 2016

Disruptive Marketing: What Growth Hackers, Data Punks, and Other Hybrid Thinkers Can Teach Us About Navigating the New Normal Geoffrey Colon AMACOM (August 2016) How business, human behavior, technology, and communications intersect, “and how they are shaped by the world…

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What Great Listeners Actually Do

November 9, 2016

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman 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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Slow Deciders Make Better Strategists

November 8, 2016

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Mark Chussil 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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Kathy Giusti (founder of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation) in “The Corner Office”

November 8, 2016

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 Kathy Giusti, founder of the…

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Leadership and behavior: Mastering the mechanics of reason and emotion

November 7, 2016

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Julia Sperling and David Schwartz for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. They interview a Nobel Prize winner and a leading behavioral economist who offer common sense and…

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Austin McChord (chief executive of the data protection company Datto) in “The Corner Office”

November 7, 2016

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 Austin McChord, chief executive of…

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Realizing the power of talented women

November 6, 2016

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Michelle Angier and Beth Axelrod for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm, obtain subscription…

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