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Don’t Sacrifice Long-Term Growth Just to Hit Your Forecast

January 18, 2013

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * When you realize the forecasts you set for the quarter…

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Know What You Don’t Know: A book review by Bob Morris

January 18, 2013

Know What You Don’t Know: How Great Leaders Prevent Problems Before They Happen Michael Roberto Pearson Prentice Hall (2009) “It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It’s that they can’t see the problem.” Michael Roberto cites this especially relevant…

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Five Keys to Enhancing Your Emotional Intelligence

January 17, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Preston Ni for Psychology Today magazine. He notes that at least 90% of peak performers possess high emotional intelligence (EQ or EI). To read the complete article, check out other…

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Winning with Transglobal Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

January 17, 2013

Winning with Transglobal Leadership: How to Find and Develop Top Global Talent to Build World-Class Organizations Linda Sharkey, Nazneen Razi, Robert Cooke, and Peter Barge McGraw-Hill (2012) A brilliant examination of the critical leadership dimensions for business success in an…

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If Peter Thiel and Garry Kasparov Are Right About the Innovation Crisis, Then We’re In Trouble

January 17, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Kenneth Rogoff and featured in an issue of BusinessInsider. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * CAMBRIDGE – As one year of sluggish growth spills into…

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Three Secrets to Make a Message Go Viral

January 17, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Dan and Chip Heath, featured in an issue of Fast Company a few years ago. As you’ll see, it has timeless relevance. To read the complete article, please click here. *…

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101 Design Methods: A book review by Bob Morris

January 16, 2013

101 Design Methods: A Structured Approach for Driving Innovation in Your Organization Vijay Kumar John Wiley & Sons (2013) “If innovation is so important, why aren’t more organizations better at it? Why are innovation failure rates so high?” Vijay Kumar…

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Quotations of Timeless Relevance

January 16, 2013

o “Enjoy the little things in life, for someday you will realize that they were the big things.” – Source Unknown o “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” – Douglas Adams o…

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William Deresiewicz on “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education”

January 16, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article in The American Scholar written by William Deresiewicz. He asserts that our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers The American Scholar is the…

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Train Your Brain For Success: A book review by Bob Morris

January 15, 2013

Train Your Brain For Success: Read Smarter, Remember More, and Break Your Own Records Roger Seip John Wiley & Sons (2012) How to increase personal growth and professional development with accelerated learning to achieve “record-breaking” results” Roger Seip is not…

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