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IT as a service: From build to consume

September 22, 2016

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Arul Elumalai, Irina Starikova, and Sid Tandon 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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Together is Better: A book review by Bob Morris

September 22, 2016

Together is Better: A Little Book of Inspiration Simon Sinek Portfolio/Penguin Group (September 2016) How those who live their lives by accident – if and when it happens – can be fulfilled by a life of serving a worthy purpose…

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Body Language Secrets to Win More Negotiations: A book review by Bob Morris

September 21, 2016

Body Language Secrets to Win More Negotiations: How to Read Any Opponent and Get What You Want Greg Williams with Pat Iyer Career Press (September 2016) How and why body language will influence the outcome of every negotiation, for better…

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Simon Sinek on why a purpose-driven life is the only one worth living

September 21, 2016

All leaders have many responsibilities and one of the most important is to establish or nourish a workplace culture within which personal growth and professional development are most likely to thrive. In his latest book, Together Is Better: A Little…

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Clay Christensen on how to replace the “tired paradigm” of “playing the odds” with a theory that explains “how things work.”

September 20, 2016

In Clay Christensen’s latest book, Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice (published by HarperBusiness, October 2016), written with Toddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David Duncan, he asserts that “the foundation of [his and his collaborators’] thinking…

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Elite Minds: A book review by Bob Morris

September 20, 2016

Elite Minds: How Winners Think Differently to Create a Competitive Edge and Maximize Success Stan Beecham McGraw-Hill (September 2016) If the mind is what the brain does, this is how and why it controls the body In the title of…

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Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: A book review by Bob Morris

September 19, 2016

Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang The MIT Press (August 2016) An insightful discussion of the evolving nature and probable impact of Big Data Decisions that concern Big Data do…

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Ben Chestnut (C.E.O. of MailChimp,) in “The Corner Office”

September 19, 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 Ben Chestnut, C.E.O. of MailChimp,…

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Draw to Win: A book review by Bob Morris

September 18, 2016

Draw to Win: A Crash Course on How to Lead, Sell, and Innovate With Your Visual Mind Dan Roam Portfolio/Penguin (September 2016) “Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he…

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Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

September 18, 2016

During an interview by Sean Blanda of Intuit’s Suzanne Pelican for 99U within the Bēhance network of websites, she explains why designers need to (sometimes) take a back seat to their developers. To check out the complete interview and other…

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