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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 Lindsey Ueberroth, chief executive of…
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I have finally gotten around to reading and will soon review Doris Kearns Goodwin‘s latest book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, and highly recommend it. Her focus is on four separate…
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I have read and reviewed Liz Wiseman’s previously published books — notably Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter and The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools — and am now reading Rookie Smarts, published by HarperBusiness (October 2014). In it,…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Rob Cross and Chris Ernst for Talent Management magazine. In agree with them: For companies to continuously innovate, they must first redesign how jobs are structured to discover and communicate new…
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Work and Life is a radio program hosted by Stew Friedman, director of the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project, on Sirius XM’s Channel 111, Business Radio Powered by The Wharton School. Every Tuesday at 7:00 PM EST, Stew speaks with everyday…
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Updike Adam Begley HarperCollins (2014) “A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.” Sigmund Freud John Hoyer Updike (1932-2009) is widely considered among the most accomplished U.S. writers during…
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Evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson has spent much of his career studying leafcutter ants. In a book co-authored with Bert Hölldobler, The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct, he argues that their success is due to division of labor. There are…
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Here’s a brief excerpt from an article by Larry Fink for LinkedIn Pulse. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. * * * This week, I wrote a letter to shareholders as part of BlackRock’s…
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The “Secret Sauce” of Success in Business
As you already know, opinions are divided — sometimes sharply divided — about what is necessary to achieve success in business. According to the best sources of which I am aware, these seem to be the most important ingredients: o…
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