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Ramon Nunez (chief executive of LiveHive) in “The Corner Office”

September 11, 2013

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 Ramon Nunez, chief executive of…

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Pioneer women who “leaned in” throughout U.S. history

September 10, 2013

With all due respect to Sheryl Sanberg, she is only one of the latest women who have “leaned in” to achieve success in U.S. history. I highly recommend Gail Collins’ America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines,…

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Alan Gregerman on “Rethinking Employee Engagement”

September 10, 2013

As I began to read Alan Gregerman’s recently published book, The Necessity of Strangers: The Intriguing Truth About Insight, Innovation, and Success, I was again reminded of how deceptively complicated the word “stranger” is. It could refer to someone we…

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What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: A book review by Bob Morris

September 10, 2013

What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Edited by John Brockman Harper Perennial (2007) “Yesterday’s dangerous idea is today’s orthodoxy and tomorrow’s cliché.” — Richard Dawkins According to founder and editor, John Brockman, the Edge Question was first posed in 1998: “What…

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Bruce DelMonico: An Interview of the MBA Gatekeeper To Yale’s School of Management

September 10, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an interview of Bruce DelMonico, director of admissions at Yale’s School of Management featured in an article by John A, Byrne for Poets & Quants, a social network. Its goal is to create a helpful…

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Rajat Taneja on “What I Learned from Steve Ballmer”

September 9, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article by Rajat Taneja for LinkedIn. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. * * * Steve Ballmer recently announced his retirement setting off a firestorm of analysis of…

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A Worse You Could Be Better Off: Robert Trivers’ The Folly of Fools

September 9, 2013

Here is a classic essay by Jennifer Jacquet for Scientific American magazine (October 26, 2011) in which she discusses Robert Trivers’ then latest book, The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life. To read the…

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Dan Pontefract: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

September 9, 2013

Dan Pontefractis the author of Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization. He also holds the role of Head of Learning & Collaboration at TELUS where he is responsible for the overarching leadership development, learning and collaboration strategy for…

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The Sources of Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

September 8, 2013

The Sources of Innovation Eric von Hippel Oxford University Press (1988) In the “cave” of innovation shadows, here is a primary source of light To those of you who are unfamiliar with Eric von Hippel, here is an introduction: “I…

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 9/2/13)

September 8, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Sources of Innovation Eric von Hippel The Tools: Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity Phil Stutz and Barry Michels…

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