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How to Create a Culture In Which Female Leaders Can Thrive

March 12, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Nellie Borrero for Talent Management magazine. To read the complete article, check out all the resources, and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and/or Chief Learning Officer magazines…

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“Out of the Mouths of Babes”: Part 2

March 11, 2013

These comments are authentic, obtained from several sources, provided by children after having attended a vacation Bible class. o In the first book of the Bible, Guinness’s, God got tired of creating the world, so He took the Sabbath off.…

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Sheryl Sandberg to Harvard Biz Grads: “Find a rocket ship and ride it.”

March 11, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article contributed to Forbes by Kashmir Hill. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * Harvard Business School grad and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg…

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Big Data: A book review by Bob Morris

March 11, 2013

Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2013) A “treasure hunt” to extract insights from data and unleash dormant value by a shift from causation to…

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The value of sportsmanship in business

March 11, 2013

Here is an article written by Michael Hess for CBS MoneyWatch, the CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the website’s newsletters, please click here.…

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Innovation as Usual: A book review by Bob Morris

March 10, 2013

Innovation as Usual: How to Help Your People Bring Great Ideas to Life Paddy Miller and Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How and why the healthiest organizations are those in which pursuit of improvement is constant, tenacious, and…

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Kris Duggan (Badgeville) in “The Corner Office”

March 10, 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 Kris Duggan, C.E.O. and a…

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 3/4/13)

March 10, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: REVIEWS Innovation as Usual: How to Help Your People Bring Great Ideas to Life Paddy Miller and Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg Finding Keepers: The Monster…

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“Out of the Mouths of Babes”: Part 1

March 9, 2013

A contest in the UK asked children to share their thoughts about marriage. These were among the responses. 1.WHEN TO GET MARRIED? “The rule goes like this: If you kiss someone, then you should marry them and have kids with…

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7 Secrets to asking effective questions

March 9, 2013

The best talent evaluators insist they learn much more about a person’s abilities from their questions than from their answers. In an article written by Shane Snow and featured by Fast Company magazine, these are among the key points made:…

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