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David McCullough on the Wright Brothers

June 24, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an interview of David McCullough by Diane Tedeschi that appears in Air & Space magazine. The Pulitzer Prize winner tells the human story behind the invention of the airplane. To read the complete interview,…

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W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne on “Blue Ocean Leadership”

June 24, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne that originally appeared in Harvard Business Review (May 2014), Blue Ocean Leadership, was selected by the HBR Editors to be included in HBR’s 10 Must…

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Assessment: Is It Time to Rethink Your Career?

June 23, 2015

Here is a brief article written by Herminia Ibarra 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, please click…

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Hal Gregersen on how to think and act to make our world a better, more creative place

June 23, 2015

A cutting-edge innovation and leadership guru, co-author of The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators, and Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center, Hal Gregersen challenges organizations and individuals to question the way we think and act…

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Introducing Jennifer Aaker

June 22, 2015

A social psychologist and marketer, Jennifer Aaker is the General Atlantic Professor of Marketing at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Her research spans time, money and happiness. She focuses on questions such as: What actually makes people happy, as…

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R. Donahue Peebles (the chief executive of the Peebles Corporation) in “The Corner Office”

June 22, 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 R. Donahue Peebles, the chief…

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Get Your Employees on Board with New Technologies

June 22, 2015

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. * * * Bringing new technology and tools into your organization can increase…

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Clayton Christensen on “the Capitalist’s Dilemma”

June 21, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Clayton Christensen that originally appeared in Harvard Business Review (June 2014), The Capitalist’s Dilemma, and was selected by the HBR Editors to be included in HBR’s 10 Must Reads 2015: The…

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Getting organizational redesign right

June 21, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Steven Aronowitz, Aaron De Smet, and Deirdre McGinty for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. They examine how and why companies will better integrate their people, processes, and…

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