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Flash Foresight: How to See the Invisible and Do the Impossible Daniel Burrus with John David Mann HarperBusiness (2011) Note: I recently re-read this book and am even more impressed now by the quality of its insights than I was…
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On April 10, 2014, Charlie Rose talked with the International Monetary Fund Managing Director, Christine Lagarde, about the failure of the U.S. Congress to ratify reforms to the IMF. Here is a direct link to that conversation. To check out…
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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 Kat Cole, president of Cinnabon.…
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The Roadside MBA: Real-world Lessons for Entrepreneurs, Start-ups and Small Businesses Michael Mazzeo, Paul Oyer, and Scott Schaefer BusinessPlus/Hatchette Book Group (2014) “When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then.” William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways Many…
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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 Tiger Tyagarajan, chief executive of…
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The Executive Checklist: A Guide for Setting Direction and Managing Change James M. Kerr Pagrave/Macmillan (2014) How to replace vague ideas about your career with strategies that will help you achieve your objectives at work and everywhere else Up front,…
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Build for Change: Revolutionizing Customer Engagement Through Continuous Digital Innovation Alan Trefler John Wiley & Sons (2014) How and why a focus on high tech and high touch will actively engage customers and fully respond to their expectations The title…
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I am eager to call to your attention what has been, until recently, one of the best-kept secrets in knowledge leadership: Thinkers50. Des Dearlove is co-founder of the Thinkers50. He is an adjunct professor at IE Business School, an associate…
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Structure of a typical neuron: myelin is the yellow portion At one point in The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How, Daniel Coyle declares, “We are myelin beings.” OK, but so what? When tapping into a neurological…
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The Three-Word Problem That Can Destroy Your Life
Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Greg McKeown for LinkedIn Pulse. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. * * * We have a problem—and the odd thing is we not only…
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