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Taking the measure of your innovation performance

January 31, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from a Bain Brief co-authored by Eric Almquist, Mitchell Leiman, Darrell Rigby and Alex Roth, featured at Bain & Company’s website. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of resources, and sign up…

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What Works for Women at Work: A book review by Bob Morris

January 30, 2014

What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know Joan Williams and Rachel Dempsey New York University Press (2014) How and why what works best for women at work will work for men as well. In…

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Girish Navani (C.E.O. of eClinicalWorks) in “The Corner Office”

January 30, 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 Girish Navani, C.E.O. of eClinicalWorks,…

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This Post Will Make You a More Effective Communicator in 90 Seconds

January 30, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from a must-read article by Shane Snow, featured by The Freelance Strategist. To read the complete article and check out the wealth of resources, please click here. Image via Stuck in Customs / Flickr.com *…

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Engaging Employees: What Drives Employee Engagement and Why It Matters

January 30, 2014

I occasionally visit the Dale Carnegie website when in search of especially interesting material. Here is what I recently found. To check out the DC resources, please click here. * * * United States businesses lose $11 billion annually as…

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Richard Feynman – No Ordinary Genius (full version)

January 29, 2014

Below is a link to a video during which the genius of Richard Feynman (1918-1988) is celebrated by those who knew him best. His genius is also revealed by Feynman himself as he explains, in layman’s terms, some of the…

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The chemistry of enthusiasm

January 29, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from a Bain Brief co-authored by Domenico Azzarello, Frédéric Debruyne, and Ludovica Mottura, featured at Bain & Company’s website. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of resources, and sign up for email…

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Ready to Be a Thought Leader? A book review by Bob Morris

January 29, 2014

Ready to Be a Thought Leader? How to Increase Your Influence, Impact, and Success Denise Brosseau Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2013) If you have ideas that are of value to others, you are a thought leader. Throughout history, there have been…

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Larry Smith on “Why you will fail to have a great career”

January 29, 2014

Richard Saul Wurman created the TED conference in 1984 as a onetime event. (As you may already know, TED refers to Technology, Education, and Design.) It became a four-day conference six years later. Chris Anderson purchased TED in 2001. Until 2005, it remained a once-a-year…

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Left Brain, Right Stuff: A book review by Bob Morris

January 28, 2014

Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions Phil Rosenzweig PublicAffairs (2014) Why understanding the decision making process as well as the roles of action and analysis “can improve the odds of success” As I began to read this…

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