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David Van Rooy: An interview by Bob Morris

September 14, 2014

David Van Rooy is Senior Director, Talent Management for Walmart. He previously held roles in International Human Resources, and was responsible for the world’s largest performance management and employee engagement programs at Walmart, covering nearly 2.2 million employees globally. Before…

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Q&A with Bruce Schneier, Author of Liars and Outliers

September 13, 2014

I have just read and will soon review Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World and Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive, Bruce Schneier’s most recently pushed book. Here is a portion of…

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Uncram: A review of Benedict Carey’s How We Learn

September 13, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from Dan Hurley‘s review of Benedict Carey’s recently published book, How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens, published by Random House (2014). It appeared in The New York Times…

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Josh Bersin on “Putting the ‘Strategic’ into Strategic HR (and Management)”

September 12, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Josh Bersin for LinkedIn Pulse. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. * * * One of the buzzwords we often use in the talent world…

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Being a Hero for Women at Work

September 12, 2014

Here is a portion of an interview by Kate Everson of software developer SAP’s chief learning officer, Jenny Dearborn that appeared in Talent Management magazine. Dearborn discusses what women need to reach the chief executive spot and what they can…

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Peter Thiel on the Power of Counterintuitive Thinking

September 12, 2014

Briefly, intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without inference or the use of reason. The word intuition comes from Latin verb intueri which is usually translated as to look inside or to contemplate. Intuition is thus often conceived as…

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The Leap: A book review by Bob Morris

September 11, 2014

The Leap: The Science of Trust and Why It Matters Ulrich Boser New Harvest/Amazon & Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2014) “It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.”…

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The Future of Books: What are the realities?

September 11, 2014

In an article featured in Forbes magazine (2/10/14), “Amazon Vs. Book Publishers, By The Numbers,” Jeff Bercovici cites an important article by George Packer for The New Yorker and then provides information of special interest to me concerning major trends…

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Cheap Words: Amazon is good for customers. But is it good for books?

September 11, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an especially important article by George Packer for The New Yorker in which in which discusses whether or not Jeff Bezos and Amazon are good for the book publishing industry. Opinions are sharply divided…

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Josh Bersin’s Interview of Reid Hoffman: “Managing Talent In The Networked Age”

September 10, 2014

Here is a brief portion of Josh Bersin’s exclusive interview of Reid Hoffman, Chairman of LinkedIn and Author of The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age for LinkedIn Pulse. To read the complete article and check out others, please…

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