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Sprints Are the Secret to Getting More Done

June 19, 2016

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Zeratsky 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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Presentation Skills 201: A book review by Bob Morris

June 18, 2016

Presentation Skills 201: How to Take It to the Next Level as a Confident, Engaging Presenter William R. Steele Erie Publishing (2016) How you present yourself when interacting with others will probably determine what they think of you, for better…

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Drew Houston (chief executive of Dropbox) in “The Corner Office”

June 18, 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 Drew Houston, chief executive of…

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Think Simple: A book review by Bob Morris

June 17, 2016

Think Simple: How Smart Leaders Defeat Complexity Ken Segall Penguin/Portfolio, An Imprint of Penguin Random House (June 2016) “Make everything as simple as possible but no simpler.” Albert Einstein Einstein’s admonition helps to create a context for Ken Segall’s brilliant…

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How IDEO Designers Persuade Companies to Accept Change

June 17, 2016

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ashlea Powell 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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Execution Excellence: A book review by Bob Morris

June 16, 2016

Execution Excellence: Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard Sanjiv Anand John Wiley & Sons (2016) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison David P. Norton and Robert S. Kaplan co-authored an article, “The Balanced Scorecard: Measures That Drive Performance,”…

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Recover from Rejection by Shifting Your Mindset

June 16, 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. * * * Rejection is a universal (and universally disliked) experience, but it’s…

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Monetizing Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

June 15, 2016

Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price Madhavan Ramanujam and Georg Tacke John Wiley & Sons (June 2016) How monetizing the design of new or improved products and/or services will help create or increase demand for…

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Ahead of the curve: The future of performance management

June 15, 2016

Here is a brief excerpt from another brilliant article, in this instance co-authored by by Boris Ewenstein, Bryan Hancock, and Asmus Komm, for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources,…

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Shirley Ann Jackson (president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) in “The Corner Office”

June 14, 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 Shirley Ann Jackson, president of…

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