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Designing the Purposeful Organization: How to Inspire Business Performance Beyond Boundaries Clive Wilson KoganPage (2015) Are you helping to build a “cathedral”? As I began to read this book, I was again reminded of the ancient insight, “If you don’t…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Geena Davis for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. Does lopsided male representation in media skew our perceptions? Geena Davis believes it does and that corporations have a…
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Seven Disciplines of a Leader: How to Help Your People, Team, and Organization Achieve Maximum Effectiveness Jeff Wolf with Ken Shelton John Wiley & Sons (2015) How and why some leaders have high-impact and so many others don’t Another book…
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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. * * * If you’re trying to engage an audience, using well-chosen metaphors…
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Here is a brief excerpt from a “classic” article written by Sven Smit, Caroline M. Thompson, and S. Patrick Viguerie for the McKinsey Quarterly (2005), published by McKinsey & Company. They discuss an enduring reality: The largest corporations rarely sustain…
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In Fail Fast or Win Big: The Start-Up Plan for Starting Now, Bernhard Schroeder introduces what he characterizes as the Lean Model Framework. As he explains, “”instead of spending months writing a business plan and then looking for investors, who…
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Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans Malcolm Gaskill Basic Books/A Member of the Perseus Book Group (2014) A unique process of natural selection in the New World that led to independence from the Old World It is probably…
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The Global Leadership Competencies We Aren’t Teaching
Here is an excerpt from an article written by Donna Parrey for Talent Management magazine. Change in the macro business environment moves at lightning speed. What has remained unchanged is the content of many leadership development programs — to global…
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