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“Walking around management” is one of several core competencies that are featured in Tom Peters and Bob Waterman’s business classic, In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies, published by Harper & Row (1986). They had observed it during…
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Compelling People: The Hidden Qualities That Make Us Influential John Neffinger and Matthew Kohut Hudson Street Press/Penguin Group (2013) How and why, only when we cultivate both strength and warmth in our lives are we “worthy of admiration” John Neffinger…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Maria Popova for her website, Brain Pickings, in which she addresses phenomena with which almost anyone can identify: Details of the world in which we live that we do not…
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I have just read Tom Kelley and David Kelley’s book, Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All, that will soon be published by Crown Business (October 2013). With regard to the title of their book, “At its core,…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by James Ponsoldt for the Huffington Post in which Spectacular Now‘s director identifies and discusses what he considers to be the 25 best coming-of-age films. To read the complete article, please click…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Adam Grant for The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. In it, Grant explains how and why, by encouraging employees to both seek and provide help, rewarding givers, and…
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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 Hugh Martin, chief executive of…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by James Caan featured by LinkedIn. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * I have said in the past that there is no magic formula when it comes…
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Marty Neumeier on “The Aha Moment”
It is generally known that Archimedes of Syracuse (287–212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Among…
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