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The Myth of Meritocracy

June 2, 2016

In The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing, Michael J. Mauboussin rigorously examines a common mistake when making predictions: failing to recognize luck’s existence or miscalculating its influence, “and as a consequence we dwell too…

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How Performance Management Is Killing Performance — and What to Do About It: A book review by Bob Morris

June 2, 2016

How Performance Management Is Killing Performance — and What to Do About It M. Tamra Chandler Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2016) “Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.” Peter Drucker Years…

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How to Develop the Most Effective Employee Engagement Predictive Analytics

June 1, 2016

In People Analytics in the Era of Big Data: Changing the Way You Attract, Acquire, Develop, and Retain Talent, Jean Paul Isson and Jesse S. Harriott suggest six questions that should be asked in order to develop the most effective…

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Door to Door: A book review by Bob Morris

June 1, 2016

Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation Edward Humes Harper/An Imprint of HarperCollins (2016) Carmageddon or Carmaheaven? That determination could be made by “titanic enterprises” and/or “small choices” Frankly, I had no idea (or any interest in…

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The Emergence of “Women Power”

May 31, 2016

Here is an excerpt from a mini-commentary featured at the BOA/Merrill Lynch website. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * Women’s growing clout—as entrepreneurs, executives and consumers—is changing how companies do business and spurring economic growth…

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Charlie Roark’s collection of 19 Jokes that “Only Intellectuals Will Understand”

May 31, 2016

2. What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? 3. Three logicians walk into a bar. The bartender asks, “Do all of you want a drink?” The first logician says “I don’t know.” The second…

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How to avoid or resolve three organizational crises that can occur after start-up and early-growth phases

May 30, 2016

In The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth, Chris Zook and James Allen identify and discuss three predictable crises that can result from growth. Each of the three occurs at a different phase of an organization’s…

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How to attract, hire, train, and then retain the talent for digital thinking that can transform any organization

May 30, 2016

In Delivering on Digital: The Innovators and Technologies That Are Transforming Government, William Eggers recommends and explains nine strategies that will help decision-makers in governmental entities that need to attract, hire, train, and then retain the talent they need to compete…

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Lest we forget….

May 29, 2016

  “If you forget us, we will have died in vain.”

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Matthew E. May on “winning the brain game”: An interview by Bob Morris

May 29, 2016

Matt May is author of Winning the Brain Game: Fixing the 7 Fatal Flaws of Thinking (May 2016), as well as four previous award-winning books: The Laws of Subtraction (2012), The Shibumi Strategy (2010), In Pursuit of Elegance (2009), and…

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