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Lewis Schiff: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

June 5, 2013

Lewis Schiff is the executive director of Inc. Business Owners Council, a membership organization for Inc. Magazine’s top entrepreneurs and owners of closely-held family businesses and maintains a blog about behavioral entrepreneurship on Inc.com. His new book, Business Brilliant: Surprising…

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The defining characteristics of a healthy organization

June 4, 2013

In a recent post, Randy Mayeux of First Friday Book Synopsis shared his list of what he identifies as his “12 Vital Signs of Organizational Health.” To read that post, please click here. Randy got me thinking about organizational health and I decided to share my…

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Motivating people: Getting beyond money

June 4, 2013

The workplace environment may change but human nature doesn’t. Here is a brief excerpt from an article that appeared a few years ago in The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, but one whose key insights remain even more…

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Results-Based Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

June 4, 2013

Results-Based Leadership: How Leaders Build the Business and Improve the Bottom Line Dave Ulrich, Jack Zenger, and Norman Smallwood Harvard Business Review Press (1999) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison This book was first published in 1999 and as…

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How to Write an Email That People Will Read

June 4, 2013

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * When you send an email, chances are that it’s competing…

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Jenna Fagnan (Tequila Avión) in “The Corner Office”

June 3, 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 Jenna Fagnan, president of Tequila…

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Mind Code: A book review by Bob Morris

June 3, 2013

Mind Code: How the Language We Use Influences the Way We Think Charles E. Bailey GIST Publishing (2013) How to develop a practical understanding of the relationships between and among language, the human brain, behavior, and nature The subtitle suggests…

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Why You Should Embrace the Business Model That Threatens You

June 3, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Leonard Fuld for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR…

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Google Is Winning the Innovation War Against Apple

June 2, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Larry Popelka for Bloomberg Businessweek. To read the complete article and check out other resources, please click here. Photograph by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images * * * Google (GOOG) appears to…

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Ree Drummond reflects on “Ten Important Things I’ve Learned About Blogging”

June 2, 2013

Perhaps you have watched one of Ree Drummond‘s programs on the Food Network. That is only one region of her world and there are so many others I have only begun to explore. She is also a wife, a mother…

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