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How to Push Your Team Out of a Rut

October 20, 2014

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. * * * Every team falls into a rut once in a while.…

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Entrepreneurial StrengthsFinder: A book review by Bob Morris

October 19, 2014

Entrepreneurial StrengthsFinder Jim Clifton and Sangeeta Bharadwaj Badal Gallup Press (2014) How and why innovation without successful entrepreneurship is “worthless” In my opinion, Jim Clifton is one of the most important and yet least appreciated business thinkers now discussing the…

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Peter DiGiammarino : Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

October 19, 2014

Peter DiGiammarino is a senior executive with 35 years of success leading businesses that target tight public and private markets around the world. In addition to running companies, he serves public, private, private-equity-owned, and venture-capital-backed software and services firms as…

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Why we need more Gazelles

October 18, 2014

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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The End of Normal: A book review by Bob Morris

October 18, 2014

The End of Normal: The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth James K. Galbraith Simon & Schuster (2014) The Great Confusion: Perhaps the problem lies with the economic principles or the way they have been understood As we now…

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How and why Google continues to attract so many “smart creatives”

October 17, 2014

In How Google Works, co-authors Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg with Alan Eagle devote an entire chapter to hiring: “Talent — Hiring Is the Most Important Thing You Do” (Pages 95-141). They believe that hiring is the most important area…

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If You’re on a Roll, Take a Break

October 17, 2014

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. * * * When you’re on a roll at work – completely focused,…

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How to cultivate worker passion as a cornerstone of talent development

October 17, 2014

Here’s the latest email alert from the Deloitte Center for the Edge. To learn more about the Center and Deloitte LLC, please click here. * * * Up to 88 percent of America’s workforce is not able to contribute to…

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Ten of the most valuable business websites for women

October 16, 2014

Based on what I have observed and learned, I think these are among the most valuable business websites for women, listed in alpha order: 1. BlogHer: The premier women’s blog platform is celebrating its sixth year this year–and it’s still…

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The small BIG: A book review by Bob Morris

October 16, 2014

The small BIG: small changes that spark BIG influence Steve J. Martin, Noah J. Goldstein, and Robert B. Cialdini Grand Central Publishing (2014) Why “it is often the smallest changes in approach that make the biggest difference” when it comes…

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