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Jason Pontin: Can technology solve our big problems?

January 9, 2014

TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences —…

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Dara Richardson-Heron (chief executive of the Y.W.C.A.) in “The Corner Office”

January 9, 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 Dara Richardson-Heron, chief executive of…

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Relatively brilliant insights from Albert Einstein

January 8, 2014

Here is a selection of my favorite observations by Albert Einstein (1879-1955). o “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.” o “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an…

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To Manage Well, Get Out of the Way

January 8, 2014

“So much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work.” Peter Drucker Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all…

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Vivian Schiller’s “Big Idea 2014”: Leap Year For Media — and Me

January 8, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Vivian Schiller for LinkedIn’s “Big Ideas 2014” series in which LinkedIn Influencers pick one big idea that will shape 2014. Amidst all the fuss about Cheryl Sandberg and her advocacy…

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Making Habits, Breaking Habits

January 7, 2014

Making Habits, Breaking Habits: How To Make Changes That Stick Jeremy Dean DeCapo Press/Member of Perseus Books Group (2013) How to avoid or eliminate self-defeating habits while developing others that accelerate personal growth and professional development The material provided is…

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Culture’s Role in Enabling Organizational Change

January 7, 2014

Booz & Company has just released the results of a study of culture’s role in enabling organizational change. The co-authors of the report are DeAnne Aguirre, Rutger von Post, and Micah Alpern. To read and/or download the complete report, please…

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Beyond the Job Description: A book review by Bob Morris

January 6, 2014

Beyond the Job Description: How Managers and Employees Can Navigate the True Demands of the Job Jesse Sostrin Palgrave Macmillan/St. Martin’s Press (2013) Here’s a “compass” to navigate “the ecology and terrain of work’s greatest challenges” The subtitle of this…

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Alice Munro’s Nobel Prize Interview: Writing, Women, and the Rewards of Storytelling

January 6, 2014

I am again deeply grateful to Maria Popova and her website, Brain Pickings, in this instance for sharing portions of an interview of Alice Munroe by the Swedish Academy after her selection to receive the 2013 Nobel Prize in literature.…

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