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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 Maynard Webb, a veteran technology…
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In A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness, Joseph A. Maciariello provides the thematic equivalent of a calendar year of personal supervision by Peter Drucker to each person who reads this book. He is now…
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Here is a brief article written by Claudio Feser, Fernanda Mayol, and Ramesh Srinivasan for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. According to them, new research suggests that the secret to developing effective leaders is to encourage four…
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James Merlino, MD, has been the Chief Experience Officer of the Cleveland Clinic health system, as well as a practicing staff colorectal surgeon in the Digestive Disease Institute. He is the founder and current president of the Association for Patient…
Read MoreThe term “exponential” refers to a sequence or process by which desirable results are achieved. As Salim Ismail explains in his eponymous book, written with Michael S. Malone and Yuri van Geest, an exponential organization (ExO) “is one whose impact…
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The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World Edward Dolnick Harper Perennial (2011) A compelling account of “a group of scientists who set out to read God’s mind” and what they learned Authors…
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In an article written for the Wall Street Journal (Thursday, January 8, 2015), Kevin Clark suggests that total candor is the Seattle Seahawks’ competitive edge. Here is a brief excerpt. To read the complete article, check out others, obtain subscription…
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People Tools for Business Alan Fox SelectBooks (2014) “In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.” Yogi Berra Here are 50 strategies (“hammers”) that can drive initiatives (“tactics”) to help individuals as well as…
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Where do good ideas tend to come from?
I recently re-read Steven Johnson‘s Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, curious to know how well his material has held up since its publication in 2010. My conclusion? If anything, his insights are more relevant now…
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