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When Ads Look Like Content: FTC Examines Issues Around “Sponsored Content”

December 9, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article by William Launder for The Wall Street Journal in which he examines a recent and rapidly developing opportunity to combine knowledge leadership with digital marketing. To read the complete article, check out others,…

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Mobilizing your C-suite for big-data analytics

December 9, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article co-authored by Brad Brown, David Court, and Paul Willmott for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. In it, they explain how leadership-capacity constraints are undermining many companies’ efforts. New management…

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Happiness: A book review by Bob Morris

December 9, 2013

Happiness: A New Perspective James Hadley Glenmore Publications (2013) A sound and sensible discussion of happiness on the other side of complexity Totaling 73 pages plus notes, this is a booklet rather than a book, one in which James Hadley…

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Jennifer Dulski (president and chief operating officer of Change.org) in “The Corner Office”

December 8, 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 Jennifer Dulski who is president…

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 12/2/13)

December 8, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind Jocelyn Glei, Editor Innovating Analytics: Word of…

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What Can’t Be Taught: The Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field

December 7, 2013

Here are the introduction and a brief excerpt from an interview of Tom Eisenmann for Ports&Quants by Taylor Ellis. To read the complete interview, please click here. To check out a wealth of other valuable resources, please click here. *…

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The Brain’s Crowdsourcing Software

December 7, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Alison Gopnik for the Wall Street Journal. To read the complete article, check out other resources, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Image credit: Magoz * * * Over the…

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Juan Williams: My Meetings With Mandela

December 6, 2013

Of the dozens of well-deserved tributes to Nelson Mandela that I have seen thus far, of greatest interest to me was one by Juan Williams for The Wall Street Journal in which he recalled, “Fresh from prison, he granted an…

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Maria Popova on “The Psychology of Self-Control”

December 6, 2013

Here is a review by Maria Popova for her website, Brain Pickings, in which she discusses Jeremy Dean’s recently published book, Making Habits, Breaking Habits: Why We Do Things, Why We Don’t, and How to Make Any Change Stick. To…

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Manage Your Day-to-Day: A book review by Bob Morris

December 6, 2013

Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind Jocelyn Glei, Editor Amazon Publishing (2013) “Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.” Stephen…

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