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The Hybrid Tiger: Secrets of the Extraordinary Success of Asian-American Kids Quanyu Huang Prometheus Books (2014) Why what a country can achieve depends almost entirely on the education and cultivation of its children As I began to read this book,…
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Here’s a brief excerpt from an article co-authored by Jon Katzenbach, Rutger von Post, and James Thomas for strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company. In it, they discuss why business leaders should forget the monolithic change management programs and…
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Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao Crown Business (2014) How to increase and improve “pockets of peak performance” throughout the given enterprise Three of the greatest separate but related challenges…
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Here’s a brief excerpt from an article written by Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company. In it, he shares his thoughts about the relevance of mindfulness to workplace performance. To read the complete article, check out…
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Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World Jane McGonical The Penguin Press 2011) How an why “people who understand the power and potential of games…will be the people who invent our future”…
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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 Jeff Lawson, chief executive of…
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The CEO Difference: How to Climb, Crawl, and Leap Your Way to the Next Level of Your Career D.A. Benton McGraw-Hill (2014) Key insights on personal growth and professional development Why did Debra Benton write this book? “My purpose is…
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Here is an excerpt from an article by Beth Kuhel and featured by Business Insider. To read the complete article and check out other resources, please click here. Photo Credit: Flickr/Heisenberg Media * * * If you want to get…
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A Playful Path Bernard De Koven Lulu.com (2014) “Games are clues to the future. And their serious cultivation now is perhaps our only salvation.” Bernard Suits This is the latest in a series of books and articles that Bernie De…
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America’s Long and Productive History of Class Warfare
Here is an excerpt from an article written by Justin Fox 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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