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Brian Tracy on Delegation & Supervision

March 13, 2014

Delegation & Supervision is one of the volumes in the Brian Tracy Success Library. Thus far, the others focus on motivation, negotiation, time management, and leadership, all published by AMACOM. Tracy has already written one or more books of greater…

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Shawn Hunter: An interview by Bob Morris

March 13, 2014

Shawn Hunter is Executive Producer & Vice President for Leadership Solutions at Skillsoft. For over a decade Hunter has interviewed, collaborated with, and filmed, hundreds of leading business authors, executives, and business school faculty in an effort to assemble video…

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Sir Ken Robinson on “How schools kill creativity”

March 13, 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…

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Behind the Cloud: A book review by Bob Morris

March 12, 2014

Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company and Revolutionized an Industry Marc Benioff Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2009) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison It’s always interesting as well as instructive to…

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Ken Perlman: “Leadership Lessons From Animal House”

March 12, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Ken Perlman for Forbes. He discusses the very real fear of leading that many managers have, and he suggests how to get past it. To read the complete article, check…

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David Brooks on “The Leaderless Doctrine”

March 12, 2014

I have begun and then abandoned more than a dozen drafts of a commentary on what I think is the prevailing mindset of many people as the United States stumbles along, lurching into an uncertain future. I guess I lack…

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Data Crush: A book review by Bob Morris

March 11, 2014

Data Crush: How the Information Tidal Wave is Driving New Business Opportunities Christopher Surdak AMACOM (2014) How to chart and then navigate an appropriate course during a “perfect storm” of converging demands Why did Christopher Surdak write this book? “I’ve…

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Sheila Talton (chief executive of Gray Matter Analytics) in “The Corner Office”

March 11, 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 Sheila Talton, chief executive of…

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Leaders Eat Last: A book review by Bob Morris

March 10, 2014

Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t Simon Sinek Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2014) Why our society now has a chemical imbalance and what we must do about it I agree with Simon Sinek: “Too many of…

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