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Thanksgiving: Did you already know?

November 24, 2016

  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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Abraham Lincoln: “A Technology Geek”

November 23, 2016

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: A book review by Bob Morris

November 23, 2016

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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What Artificial Intelligence Can and Can’t Do Right Now

November 22, 2016

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: A book review by Bob Morris

November 22, 2016

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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Content Inc: A book review by Bob Morris

November 21, 2016

Content Inc.: How Entrepreneurs Use Content to Build Massive Audiences and Create Radically Successful Businesses Joe Pulizzi McGraw Hill Education (2015) How content marketing can help to create or increase demand for whatever you then offer to a market that…

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8 Successful Entrepreneurs Give Their Younger Selves Lessons They Wish They’d Known Then

November 21, 2016

In an article published by FastCompany magazine in 2013, execs and investors from Pandora, IDEO, Andreessen Horowitz, SoundCloud, and Kleiner Perkins, among other masters of disruption, share the wisdom they’ve gathered on the way to the top. Here is a…

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Simon Horton on the “Strong Win-Win” approach to negotiation: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

November 20, 2016

Simon Horton is one of the world’s leading negotiation skills trainers, having taught hostage negotiators, senior purchasing officers for some of the largest global manufacturing companies, and solicitors at the most prestigious law firms in the world. He is a…

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How to use content marketing to build a massive audience and create a radically successful business

November 20, 2016

In Content Inc. Joe Polizzi introduces a six-step process by which to use content marketing to build massive audiences and create a radically successful business. Briefly, “By concentrating on building an audience first and defining products and services second, an…

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The New Alpha: A book review by Bob Morris

November 19, 2016

The New Alpha: Join the Rising Movement of Influencers and Changemakers Who Are Redefining Leadership Danielle Harlan McGraw-Hill Education (September 2016) How and why New Alpha leaders focus on developing their competencies across three critical domains After completing their formal…

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