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Employee Engagement Depends on What Happens Outside of the Office

January 27, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Susan LaMotte 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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4 Skills that Give Women a Sustainable Advantage Over Men

January 26, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Glenn Llopis for Forbes magazine. To read the complete article, check out others, obtain subscription information, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * * In a…

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Greater Engagement Starts with Leaders

January 26, 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. * * * It’s important to cultivate a belief in the power of…

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Strategic Connections: A book review by Bob Morris

January 26, 2015

Strategic Connections: The New Face of Networking in a Collaborative World Anne Baber, Lynn Waymon, André Alphonso, and Jim Wylde AMACOM (2015) How to network with a new purpose, collaborate in ways you never have before, and have a significant…

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Why Do Gazelles Thrive in the Best of All Possible Business Worlds?

January 25, 2015

The term “gazelle” refers to the classic entrepreneur of myth and reality, someone who starts a new business venture (or a new way of doing business) and aims for it to explode into a white-hot phenomenon such as Home Depot,…

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Elements of a Good Story

January 25, 2015

In Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, Hermina Ibarra explains that all great stories, from Antigone to Casablanca to Star Wars, derive their power from a beginning-middle-end end story structure and these other basic characteristics: A protagonist: The…

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The Magic of Thinking Big: A book review by Bob Morris

January 24, 2015

The Magic of Thinking Big: Set Your Goals High…and Then Exceed Them David J. Schwartz Fireside/Simon & Schuster (1959) Attitude is altitude: How high is your limit? I read this book when it was first published in 1959 and recently…

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The organization that renews itself: Lasting value from lean management

January 24, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by David Jacquemont for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. He explains how and why applying lean principles to management, rather than just operations, can help large organizations reimagine…

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Mindfulness at Work: A book review by Bob Morris

January 23, 2015

Mindfulness at Work: How to Avoid Stress, Achieve More, and Enjoy Life! Stephen McKenzie Career Press (2014) How and why awareness and acceptance are essential to personal growth and professional development What is mindfulness? Opinions vary. Here is one that…

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Kristin Muhlner (chief executive of NewBrand Analytics) in “The Corner Office”

January 23, 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 Kristin Muhlner, chief executive of…

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