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How to Re-Energize Your Tired Brain

July 9, 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. * * * If you’re stressed out and tired, it’s hard to learn…

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Pedro Baranda (Otis Elevator) in “The Corner Office”

July 9, 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 Pedro Baranda, president of the…

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Don’t Rely on Employees’ (Not So) Common Sense

July 9, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Deanna Hartley for Talent Management magazine. To read the complete article, check out all the resources, and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and/or Chief Learning Officer magazines…

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Bunker Hill: A book review by Bob Morris

July 8, 2013

Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution Nathaniel Philbrick Viking/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House (2013) “In the end, the city of Boston is the true hero of this story.” The historical details are by now well-known but many…

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Bill Schley: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

July 8, 2013

Bill Schley is the author of The UnStoppables: Tapping Your Entrepreneurial Power (Wiley 2013). The story of how the Chairman of Rackspace, some Navy SEALs, a few Israeli Innovators, and a branding expert got together to discover the heart of…

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How to Use Tension and Conflict to Create Breakthrough Products

July 8, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Matthew E. May for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to…

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Nathaniel Philbrick on his latest book, Bunker Hill: An interview by Louise Braverman

July 8, 2013

Nathaniel Philbrick was born in Boston in 1956, earned a BA degree in English from Brown University and an MA in America Literature from Duke University. He was Brown’s first Intercollegiate All-American sailor in 1978. After graduate school, Philbrick worked…

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Edison was wrong about sleep

July 8, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Margaret Heffernan for CBS MoneyWatch, the CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the website’s newsletters,…

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Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid: A book review by Bob Morris

July 7, 2013

Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value Daniel Isenberg Harvard Business Review Press (2013) A brilliant analysis of entrepreneurship as “the contrarian perception, creation, and capture of extraordinary value” Let’s say that a Mount Rushmore…

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 7/1/13)

July 7, 2013

  I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value Daniel Isenberg Craving: Why We Can’t Seem to…

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