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Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work Joseph L. Badaracco Harvard Business School Press (September 2016) Here’s what you need when making the most difficult decisions Friedrich Hegel once suggested that many of…
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Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade Robert Cialdini Simon & Schuster (September 2016) “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” Abraham Lincoln I am among those…
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Here is an excerpt from Daniel McGinn’s interview of Ken Burns for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete interview, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts, please click here. Photo Credit:…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Sharlyn Lauby for Halogen Software’s TalentSpace blog. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * *…
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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 Christa Quarrels, chief executive of…
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The Leader’s Guide to Negotiation: How to Use Soft Skills to Get Hard Results Simon Horton FT Financial Times Publishing/Pearson (July 2016) “Letting the other chap have it your way” The last time I checked, Amazon US offers 30,855 books…
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The Marine Corps Way to Win on Wall Street: 11 Key Principles from Battlefield to Boardroom Ken Marlin St. Martin’s Press (August 2016) How and why the “Marine Corps Way” can help accelerate personal growth and professional development Peter Drucker…
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Yesterday, the Dallas Morning News endorsed a Democratic presidential candidate for the first in more than 75 years. Here’s a portion of the announcement: “There is only one serious candidate on the presidential ballot in November. We recommend Hillary Clinton…Donald…
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Stop Spending, Start Managing: Strategies to Transform Wasteful Habits Hardcover Tanya Menon and Leigh Thompson Harvard Business Review Press (August 2016) To paraphrase Aristotle, “We are what we repeatedly do. Frugality, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Tanya…
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4 Steps to Structure Your Team Meetings Better
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. * * * Let’s be honest: Most meetings are a waste of time,…
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