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Focus on Problem-Solving, Not Innovating

January 23, 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. * * * With everyone rushing to be innovative, it’s easy to lose…

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The Little Book of Thinking Big: A book review by Bob Morris

January 22, 2015

The Little Book of Thinking Big: Aim Higher and Go Further Than You Ever Thought Possible Richard Newton Capstone/A Wiley Brand (December 2014) This book offers a mental journey with the energy, pace, and impact of a Cirque du Soleil…

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Google’s Eight Innovation Principles

January 22, 2015

In an article for thinkwithGoogle, “The Eight Pillars of Innovation,” (July 2011), Susan Wojciki examines the principles that guide and inform Google’s innovation initiatives. They also suggest affirmations of specific values, strategies, and tactics that can be of substantial assistance…

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James Merlino, MD: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

January 22, 2015

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…

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Bringing out the best in people

January 21, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Stefan De Raedemaecker, Javier Feijoo, and David Jacquemont for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. As they acknowledge, providing good service has never been easy. Meeting rising customer…

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Top 25 EdTech Books

January 21, 2015

Educational technology (EdTech) is the effective use of technological tools in learning. As a concept, it concerns an array of tools, such as media, machines and networking hardware, as well as considering theoretical perspectives for their effective application. EdTech is…

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Targeted: A book review by Bob Morris

January 21, 2015

Targeted: How Technology Is Revolutionizing Advertising and the Way Companies Reach Consumers Mike Smith AMACOM (2015) A brilliant analysis of the breakthrough technologies that have helped drive advances in digital advertising Since the markets in ancient Athens and then Rome,…

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Peter Drucker on “Effective Leaders”

January 20, 2015

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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Coach to Coach: A book review by Bob Morris

January 20, 2015

Coach to Coach: Emotional Intelligence and Leadership for Winning Coaches Sara C. Smith Starfish Publishing (2014) Great coaches have a “green thumb” to “grow” people I have known Sara Smith for several years and consider her to be among the…

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The Georgetown Set: A book review by Bob Morris

January 20, 2015

The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington Gregg Herken Alfred A. Knopf (2014) “The hand that mixes the Georgetown martini is time and again the hand that guides the destiny of the Western world.” Henry Kissinger. As…

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