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When Sparks Fly: Igniting Creativity in Groups Dorothy Leonard-Barton and Walter C. Swap Harvard Business Review Press (2005) How to Activate the Maverick Synapses Note: I read this book many years ago and then composed the review that follows. Books…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an interview of Alan Mulally by Rik Kirkland for the Insights & Publications practice at McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm, and register…
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In one of her classic works, Creativity In Context: Update To The Social Psychology of Creativity (2006), Teresa Amabile suggests that creativity is influenced by four separate components: domain-relevant skills, creativity-relevant processes, task motivation, and the surrounding social environment. These…
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Mark Miller began writing about a decade ago when he teamed up with Ken Blanchard to write The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do. His latest book, The Heart of Leadership: Becoming a Leader People Want to Follow, was…
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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 Katia Beauchamp, co-founder and co-chief…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Glenn Llopis for Forbes in which he explains why he believes that the best leaders are the best problem solvers. To read the complete article, check out others, obtain subscription information,…
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Steven Fink has often been called the Dean of Crisis Management for his pioneering work in the field. His seminal work on the subject, Crisis Management: Planning for the Inevitable, still the most successful and widely-read book on crisis management…
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Over the years, I have read countless books that — one way or another — discuss an organization’s “lifecycle.” One of the best is also one of the oldest: Ichak Adizes’s Corporate Lifecycles: How and Why Corporations Grow and Die…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an interview of Steve Hamm, co-author of Smart Machines: IBM’s Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing, published by Columbia University Press. He discusses cognitive computing and how it is changing the work and…
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For the Want of Real Leaders, N.F.L. Culture Will Stay Lost
Here is an excerpt from an especially thoughtful article by Juliet Macur for The New York Times during which she provides an update on the background and current status of issues by no means unique to the Miami Dolphins, a…
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