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I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Trust Inc: Strategies for Building Your Company’s Most Valuable Asset Barbara Brooks Kimmel, Editor Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take…
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Here is a brief excerpt from Hervé de Barbeyrac and Ruben Verhoeven’s interview of Jean-Pierre Clamadieu, CEO of Solvay, for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. A Belgian company, Solvay is reshaping its portfolio to focus harder on…
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Trust Inc: Strategies for Building Your Company’s Most Valuable Asset Barbara Brooks Kimmel, Editor Next Decade, Inc. (2014) How and why a high trust culture is one within which personal growth and professional development are most likely to thrive Curious,…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Maria Popova that is featured at her website, Brain Pickings. By now you may already know that she is a gourmet of brain food. To read the complete article, check out…
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Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career Jocelyn Glei, Editor Amazon Publishing (2013) Are you a prospective Free Radical? “Potential” means “you ain’t done it yet.” Darrell Royal Jocelyn Glei edited this volume…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Derek Thompson for The Atlantic. In it, he discusses why investors love Jeff Bezos’s global-everything store, even though they aren’t making any money from it yet—and it’s not clear how they…
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Here is an excerpt from the executive summary of a report co-authored by James Manyika, Michael Chui, Diana Farrell, Steve Van Kuiken, Peter Groves, and Elizabeth Almasi Doshi for the McKinsey Global Institute. To check out the report and other…
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The buffet awaits: o “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with others.” African proverb o “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn.” Chinese…
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The Practical Drucker: Applying the Wisdom of the World’s Greatest Management Thinker William A. Cohen AMACOM (2014) A brilliant explanation of how to apply the most valuable lessons to be learned from Peter Drucker (1909 –2005) The title of this…
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The 50 Greatest Breakthroughs Since the Wheel
Here is a brief excerpt from James Fallows‘ introduction in his article written for The Atlantic. To read the complete article, obtain subscription information, and sign up for free email alerts, please click here. * * * Why did it…
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