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Brad Smart on “Topgrading’s Most Important Competency”

April 7, 2014

Suppose we were sitting together on a plane and you asked, “Brad, I understand the basics of Topgrading, but what is the one thing that I could do to get the most out of Topgrading methods to turbo-boost my hiring…

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Flex: A book review by Bob Morris

April 7, 2014

Flex: The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences Jane Hyun and Audrey S. Lee HarperBusiness/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (2014) Invaluable information, insights, and counsel with regard to how to become and help others to become a “fluent leader” According…

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Ten tips for leading companies out of crisis

April 7, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Doug Yakola for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm, obtain subscription information, and register…

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Moments of Impact: A book review by Bob Morris

April 6, 2014

Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations That Accelerate Change Chris Ertel and Lisa Kay Solomon Simon & Schuster (2014) How to replace “time-sucking, energy-depleting meetings and workshops with high engagement strategic conversations” There are times when all of…

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Scott Doorley and Scott Witthoft: An interview by Bob Morris

April 6, 2014

Scott Doorley is the Creative Director at the Stanford d.school. His design work centers on using media and environments to enhance interactions, gently guide behavior, and bolster learning. At Stanford, he teaches classes in communication design including storytelling & visual…

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Tom Erickson (chief executive of Acquia) in “The Corner Office”

April 5, 2014

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 Tom Erickson, chief executive of…

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From Lao Tzu to Layups, 1,682 Pages of Phil Jackson

April 5, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Ben Dolnick for The New York Times in which he examines books that Phil Jackson has written (usually with assistance provided by his friend, Charley Rosen) during the past 20 years.…

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Art Kleiner on “A New Life for strategy+business magazine”

April 4, 2014

In the article that follows, Art Kleiner shares his thoughts and feelings about a publisher’s name change but, channeling Heraclitus (“Everything changes, nothing changes”), reassures us that strategy+business magazine’s commitment to superior knowledge leadership will continue, uncompromised. However, I think…

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Change leader, change thyself

April 4, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article co-authored by Nate Boaz and Erica Ariel Fox for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, in which they suggest that anyone who pulls the organization in new directions must look…

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Into the Future With MOOC’s

April 4, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Kevin Carey for The Chronicle of Higher Education (September 3, 2012). To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Photo credit: Michael Morgenstern…

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