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Cultural Transformations: A book review by Bob Morris

February 21, 2016

Cultural Transformations: Lessons of Leadership and Corporate Reinvention John Mattone and Nick Vaidya John Wiley & Sons (2016) How and why organizations that thrive have launched preemptive transformation to dominate their competition Most change initiatives either fail or fall far…

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Organizing for the future

February 21, 2016

Platform-based talent markets help put the emphasis in human-capital management back where it belongs—on humans. Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Aaron De Smet, Susan Lund, and William Schaninger for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey…

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Remix Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

February 20, 2016

Remix Strategy: The Three Laws of Business Combinations Benjamin Gomes-Casseres Harvard Business Review Press (2015) How to create organizational value with a strategy that maximizes the impact of both internal and external resource As Benjamin Gomes-Casseres observes in the first…

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Why agility pays

February 20, 2016

New research shows that the trick for companies is to combine speed with stability. Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Michael Bazigos, Aaron De Smet, and Chris Gagnon for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey &…

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How to Get Buy-In for Your New Idea

February 19, 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 introducing a new idea to a potentially resistant audience,…

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Pagan Kennedy on how to create a better world for yourself…and for everyone else

February 19, 2016

In INVENTology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World, Pagan Kennedy explains why Mother Nature can be “the ultimate mentor for both invention and innovation.” I agree with Kennedy that few people will create something entirely new but…

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Missing Jon Stewart

February 18, 2016

The new Daily Show host, Trevor Noah (above), is smooth and charming, but he hasn’t found his edge. Here is a brief excerpt from an article by James Parker for The Atlantic. To read the complete article, check out others,…

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How Incredibly Creative People Come Up With Breakthrough Ideas

February 18, 2016

Here’s a brief excerpt from an article by Leigh Buchanan for Inc. magazine. I agree that anyone can come up with a lot of ideas. According to Stanford professor Justin Berg, the trick is placing your bet on the right…

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Bob Nease on eliminating the “intention/behavior gap”: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

February 17, 2016

Bob Nease received his doctorate from Stanford University, where he studied methods to improve medical decisions made by doctors and patients. Before joining Express Scripts in 2001, he was an associate professor of internal medicine at Washington University in St.…

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How to Make Group Problem Solving More Effective

February 17, 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 groups get together to brainstorm, they actually come up…

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