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Mark Toro (managing partner and chairman of North American Properties) in “The Corner Office”

September 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 Mark Toro, managing partner and…

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Tim Richardson: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

September 4, 2015

Formerly, Tim Richardson headed Leadership and Talent at PWC (2000-2009), where he was the driving force behind the creation of an integrated talent strategy and leadership development. He started his career in financial services. He now focuses on talent and…

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Reid Hoffman’s Two Rules for Strategy Decisions

September 4, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ben Casnocha 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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Peter Thiel on how to find value in unexpected places by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas

September 3, 2015

I recently re-read Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, written with Blake Masters, in which Peter Thiel identifies “four lessons that entrepreneurs learned from the dot-com crash, lessons [formulas] that still guide business thinking…

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Why Productivity Is Soaring at Top Firms and Sluggish Everywhere Else

September 3, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Chiara Criscuolo 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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Greg Schott (chief executive of MuleSoft) in “The Corner Office”: “Threats to a Positive Workplace”

September 2, 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 Greg Schott, chief executive of…

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Why “great books” really do matter

September 2, 2015

In his eponymous work, Adam Nicolson explains why Homer matters and his comments also apply to other authors such as Sophocles, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Joyce. Nicolson suggests, “Homer matters because Homer, in a godlike way, understands what mortals do…

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Margaret Heffernan on “Why it’s time to forget the pecking order at work”

September 1, 2015

Organizations are often run according to “the superchicken model,” where the value is placed on star employees who outperform others. And yet, this isn’t what drives the most high-achieving teams. Business leader Margaret Heffernan observes that it is social cohesion…

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Green Giants: A book review by Bob Morris

September 1, 2015

Green Giants: How Smart Companies Turn Sustainability into Billion- Dollar Businesses E. Freya Williams AMA COM (2015) How and why purpose and profitability are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they tend to be interdependent. To what does the title of…

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Do Your People Know Which Way to Go?

August 31, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Doug Conant, featured by LinkedIn Pulse. To read the complete article, check out others, and sign up to receive email alerts, please click here. * * * The ultimate goal of…

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