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Too Big to Ignore: A book review by Bob Morris

March 18, 2015

Too Big to Ignore: The Business Case for Big Data (Wiley and SAS Business Series) Phil Simon John Wiley & Sons (2015) “Before we demand more of our data, we need to demand more of ourselves.” Nate Silver First of…

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Walter Isaacson on Steve Jobs’ Favorite Product: The Apple Team

March 18, 2015

In this brief video for bigthink.com, biographer Walter Isaacson discusses how Steve Jobs may have had a prickly personality, but his ability to build loyal and innovative teams was one of his greater talents. Walter Isaacson is a renowned biographer,…

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Changing the Performance Management Mindset

March 18, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Sebastian Bailey for Talent Management magazine. He suggests that, as ‘rank and yank’ dominates the debate, talent leaders would be wise to focus the discussion on eliminating traditional manager biases and…

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The funniest TED Talks

March 17, 2015

Richard Saul Wurman created the TED conference in 1984 as a onetime event. (As you may already know, TED refers to Technology, Education, and Design.) It became a four-day conference six years later. Chris Anderson purchased TED in 2001. Until…

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Mike Paton: An interview by Bob Morris

March 17, 2015

Mike Paton has spent a lifetime learning from and sharing with entrepreneurs. The product of an entrepreneurial household, he cut his teeth in banking before running (or helping run) four small, growing companies. For the last seven years, he’s been…

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Telling the Talent Story

March 17, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Boudreau and David Creelman for Talent Management magazine. They explain how and why the push to create standardized reporting opens the door to give the story behind the numbers. To…

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5 Myths of Great Workplaces

March 16, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ron Friedman 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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The Upside of Your Dark Side: A book review by Bob Morris

March 16, 2015

The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self — Not Just Your “Good” Self — Drives Success and Fulfillment Todd Kashdan and Robert Biswas-Diener Hudson Street Press/The Penguin Group (2014) “Do I contradict myself? Very well then,…

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A different perspective on Selma and Ferguson in 2015

March 16, 2015

Self-anointed “experts” on race relations and economic inequality continue to blog (i.e. bloviate) about what happened in Selma, Alabama (on March 9, 1965), and what lessons can be learned from it that apply to race relations today, there and elsewhere,…

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Jon Stewart and Nate Silver have an especially lively conversation

March 15, 2015

It will be a sad day for me when Jon Stewart is no longer with The Daily Show (except in spirit) but at least he will continue to be involved in activities that amuse as well as inform those who…

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