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The Best Data Scientists Know How to Tell Stories

November 7, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Michael Li 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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Michael J. Mauboussin: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

November 6, 2015

Michael J. Mauboussin is Chief LMCM in 2004, Michael was Chief U.S. Investment Strategist at Credit Suisse. Michael joined CS in 1992 as a packaged food industry analyst, and was repeatedly named to Institutional Investor‘s All-America Research Team and The…

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Why Women Compete With Each Other

November 6, 2015

Here is an article by Emily V. Gordon for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: Laura Callaghan * * * I had a tightly knit…

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Getting Under His Skin: A New Biography of Frank Sinatra

November 6, 2015

Here is an excerpt from Edward Kosner‘s review in The Wall Street Journal of James Kaplan’s recently published Sinatra: The Chairman, a biography of a “mother-ridden boyhood in Jersey, bobby-sox mania, career eclipse, Ava Gardner, super-stardom, Rat Pack shenanigans, the…

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The Light-Beam Rider

November 5, 2015

Here is an article by Walter Isaacson for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: Jon Han * * * This month marks the 100th anniversary…

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Lesa France Kennedy (chief executive of the International Speedway Corporation) in “The Corner Office”

November 5, 2015

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 Lesa France Kennedy, chief executive…

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One Second Ahead: A book review by Bob Morris

November 4, 2015

One Second Ahead: Enhance Your Performance at Work with Mindfulness Rasmus Hougaard with Jacqueline Carter and Gillian Coutts Palgrave Macmillan (2015) How and why being constantly mindful can help accelerate personal growth and professional development With Jacqueline Carter and Gillian…

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Compasses Over Maps

November 4, 2015

Here is an excerpt from a post by Josh Linkner at his blog. The title is somewhat deceiving because most business initiatives in unfamiliar territory (e.g. doing business in a new market or new country) need both a map and…

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Roger Ferguson (chief executive of TIAA-CREF) in “The Corner Office”

November 3, 2015

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 Roger Ferguson, chief executive of…

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The perils of scaling your own disruption

November 3, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by David Edelman, Nathan Marston, and Paul Willmott for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm,…

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