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The Key to Making New Year’s Resolutions Stick

January 21, 2014

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Francesca Gino for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR…

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What executives should know about open data

January 21, 2014

Here is an excerpt from an article by Michael Chui, James Manyika, and Steve Van Kuiken for the McKinsey Quarterly in which they discuss how and why novel and more accessible forms of information from government and private sources represent…

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Michael P. Gregoire (chief executive of CA Technologies) in “The Corner Office”

January 20, 2014

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 Michael P. Gregoire, chief executive…

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The Good Jobs Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

January 20, 2014

The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs & Boost Profits Zeynep Ton New Harvest/Amazon Publishing and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2014) The best strategy to achieve business success? It’s really so simple…and, yes, so…

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Opening up open data: An interview with Tim O’Reilly

January 20, 2014

Here is an excerpt from an interview of Tim O’Reilly for the McKinsey Quarterly during which the tech entrepreneur, author, and investor looks at how open data is becoming a critical tool for business and government, as well as what…

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Smarter: A book review by Bob Morris

January 19, 2014

Smarter: The New Science of Building Brain Power Dan Hurley Hudson Street Press/The Penguin Group (2013) How and why revelations from recent research in neuroscience help us to be smarter about becoming smarter With rare exception, the best works of…

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Avoiding blind spots in your next joint venture

January 19, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article co-authored by John Chao, Eileen Kelly Rinaudo, and Robert Uhlaner for McKinsey & Company’s “Insights & Publications” practice. In it, they explain how and why even joint ventures developed using familiar best…

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What is Design Thinking?

January 18, 2014

Here is a brief and remarkably informative article by Beverly Ingle during which she explains what design thinking is and can do. It is featured by the Inc. Small Giants Community website where you can check out a wealth of…

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The strategic yardstick you can’t afford to ignore

January 18, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article co-authored by Chris Bradley, Angus Dawson, and Sven Smit for the McKinsey Quarterly. In it, they explain how a systematic scan of the economic-profit performance of nearly 3,000 global companies yields fresh…

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