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How the Very Best Strategists Decide

November 6, 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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Bernhard Schroeder on “Simply Brilliant”: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

November 5, 2016

Bernhard Schroeder is Director, Lavin Entrepreneurship Center Programs and oversees all of the center’s undergraduate and graduate internship programs. He is a part-time Clinical Faculty, Entrepreneurship within the College of Business Administration at San Diego State University. Bern brings over…

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Great Business Advice

November 5, 2016

  After the Xerox board elected Anne M. Mulcahy to serve as CEO on August 1, 2001, she sought and received advice from several people. One of them provided what she found to be the best advice, when responding to…

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An operating model for company-wide agile development

November 5, 2016

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Santiago Comella-Dorda, Swati Lohiya, and Gerard Speksnijder 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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Lead and Disrupt: A book review by Bob Morris

November 4, 2016

Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s Dilemma Charles A. O’Reilly III and Michael L. Tushman Stanford Business Books/An Imprint of Stanford University Press (2016) “Why do successful firms find it so difficult to adapt in the face of…

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How about a dose of innovation to ease infrastructure strains?

November 4, 2016

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Nicklas Garemo, Jan Mischke, and Jonathan Woetzel 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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Senior Moments

November 3, 2016

These were sent to me without proper attribution. You may be amused by a least a few *     *     * George Phillips, an elderly man from Walled Lake, Michigan, was going up to bed, when his wife told him that he’d…

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Jeff Goodby (co-chairman and partner of the advertising agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners) in “The Corner Office”

November 3, 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 Jeff Goodby, co-chairman and partner…

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Bernhard Schroder’s Simply Briliant: A book review by Bob Morris

November 3, 2016

Simply Brilliant: Powerful Techniques to Unlock Your Creativity and Spark New Ideas Bernhard Schroeder AMACOM (October 2016) “Make everything as simple as possible but no simpler.” Albert Einstein In Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All, Tom Kelley…

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Women in the Workplace 2016

November 2, 2016

Here is an edited extract from a new report that addresses issues that are, if anything, of even greater importance now than ever before. Women in the Workplace 2016 is a comprehensive study of the state of women in corporate…

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