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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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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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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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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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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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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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In Great Teams: 16 Things High Performing Organizations Do Differently, Don Yaeger explains what differentiates high-performance organizations from all others. For example, in Chapter 3, he focuses on how they establish a workplace culture that shapes their recruiting and hiring.…
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Right Moves: The Conservative Think Tank in American Political Culture since 1945 Jason Stahl University of North Carolina Press (2016) A brilliant analysis of the impact of the current “marketplace of policy values and ideas,” for better or worse I…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Abele 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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Focus on What You Have in Common When Working Across Cultures
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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