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Karin Hurt and David Dye on “Winning Well”: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

July 8, 2016

As a keynote speaker, leadership consultant, and MBA professor, Karin Hurt helps leaders improve business results by building deeper trust and connection. A former Verizon Wireless executive, she has over two decades of experience in sales, marketing, customer service, and…

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The Art of Startup Fundraising: A book review by Bob Morris

July 8, 2016

The Art of Startup Fundraising: Pitching Investors, Negotiating the Deal, and Everything Else Entrepreneurs Need to Know Alejandro Cremades John Wiley & Sons (2016) “You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as…

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The Politics of the Benghazi Report

July 7, 2016

Here is brief excerpt from an article Amy Davidson for The New Yorker. To read the complete article, check other material, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Photo Credit: Tom Williams/ CQ Roll Call / Getty *     *…

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Focus on What You Have in Common When Working Across Cultures

July 7, 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. * * * When working with a person from another culture, your instinct…

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Navigating an Organizational Crisis: A book review by Bob Morris

July 6, 2016

Navigating an Organizational Crisis: When Leadership Matters Most Henry Hutson and Martha Johnson Praeger/An Imprint of ABC-CLIO (2016) “Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will/ To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” Tennyson’s Ulysses…

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Telcos: The untapped promise of big data

July 6, 2016

Here is a brief article written by Jacques Bughin for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm, obtain subscription information, and register to receive email…

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Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure

July 5, 2016

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Shawn Achor for and Michelle Gielan 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…

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Strategic human resources is key to organizational success

July 5, 2016

The first strategic objective of a business is to stay in business. This is probably what Peter Drucker has in mind when suggesting that “business has only two basic functions — marketing and innovation.” That is, create or increase demand…

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Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work

July 4, 2016

Many of us believe we should work hard in order to be happy, but could we be thinking about things backwards? Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures…

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How A Leader Can Impact Culture

July 4, 2016

In 1924, 3M’s then chairman and CEO, William L. McKnight, observed, “If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.” Organizations with the highest percentage of positively and productively engaged workers have a culture…

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