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Note: This interview is dated May 16, 2009. Since then, Ballmer has retired from Microsoft and now owns the Los Angeles Clippers, an N.B.A. team. Occasionally, I check out a few of the older “Corner Office” interviews and think this…
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The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life Bernard Roth HarperBusiness/An Imprint of Harper Collins Publishers (July 2015) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle, July…
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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 Lori Dickerson Fouché, C.E.O. of…
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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. * * * Being too immersed in a problem makes it harder for…
Read MoreI recently re-read Dan Kahneman‘s Thinking, Fast and Slow, and was amazed by how much that I noted in his narrative, this time, that I had either missed or misunderstood during previous readings. In Chapter 20, “The Illusion of Validity,”…
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On April 23, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt delivered to an audience at the Sorbonne in Paris what is widely considered his most important speech, “Citizenship in a Republic.” Here is a brief excerpt: “It is not the critic who counts; not…
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Corporate Concinnity in the Boardroom: 10 Imperatives to Drive High Performing Companies Nancy Falls Greenleaf Book Group Press (2015) The power of creative convergence and cohesion In First Corinthians, Saint Paul has much of value to say about the concept…
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Here is the Executive Summary of a “must read” article written by Richard Rothstein for the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank created in 1986 to include the needs of low- and middle-income workers in economic policy…
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Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect Matthew D. Lieberman B/D/W/Y Books (2013) A brilliant examination of the principles of the social brain (in layman’s terms) The best works of non-fiction tend to be research-driven and that is certainly…
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Wanted: Inclusive Leaders
Business success requires cross-cultural agility, curiosity and self-awareness to grow and innovate the business ad well as attract and develop talent. But today’s leaders are mostly unprepared. Here is an excerpt from an article written by Andres T. Tapia for…
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