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Encourage Employees to Help Each Other

January 12, 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. * * * Company incentives are often tied to individual productivity. Workers feel…

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Decoding leadership: What really matters

January 11, 2015

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: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

January 11, 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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The Unique Challenges of Exponential Leadership

January 10, 2015

The 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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Seattle Seahawks and the contemporary workplace

January 9, 2015

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: A book review by Bob Morris

January 9, 2015

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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Robert Reid (chief executive of Intacct) in “The Corner Office”

January 9, 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 Robert Reid, chief executive of…

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Exponential Organizations: A book review by Bob Morris

January 8, 2015

Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it) Salim Ismail with Michael S. Malone and Yuri van Geest Diversion Books (2014) How and why the exponential organization (ExO)…

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John Hagel on “The Big Shift in Strategy, Part 1”

January 8, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by John Hagel, featured by LinkedIn Pulse. To read the complete article, check out others, and sign up to receive email alerts, please click here. * * * In an exponential world,…

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