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Six Traps That Destroy Collaboration

August 13, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Joel Garfinkle 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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Change with Confidence

August 13, 2013

Change with Confidence: Answers to the 50 Biggest Questions That Keep Change Leaders Up at Night Phil Buckley Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand To paraphrase Sun Tzu, every change initiative succeeds or fails before it is launched I agree with Phil Buckley…

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Can Marissa Mayer Save Yahoo?

August 13, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Brad Stone for Bloomberg Businessweek. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Photo illustration by 731; Photos: Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo(1); Getty Images(3)…

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Where to think: Inside or Outside the Box?

August 12, 2013

Opinions are divided — sometimes sharply divided — about where the best thinking occurs, “inside the box” or “outside the box.” Whenever I’m asked, my answer is “Yes.” There is much to be said about either location but [begin italics]…

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How to Influence Others by Listening to Them

August 12, 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. * * * People don’t like being pushed, or even nudged, to do…

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Brick by Brick: A book review by Bob Morris

August 11, 2013

Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry David C. Robertson with Bill Breen Crown Business (2013) How and why the phoenix became the unofficial bird of the LEGO Group The family-owned…

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 8/5/13)

August 11, 2013

  I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry David C. Robertson with…

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The Four Steps to the Epiphany: A book review by Bob Morris

August 10, 2013

The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win Steven Blank K&S Ranch (2013) Additional revelations and refinements to guide and inform the evolution of the Lean Startup Revolution Note: The review that follows is of the…

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Breaking Bad’s Management Lessons

August 10, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Ben Wasserstein for Bloomberg Businessweek. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Photograph by Everett Collection * * * “Do you know…

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How to Master Joseph Schumpeter’s Concept of “Creative Destruction”

August 9, 2013

As I began to read Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry, written by David C. Robertson with Bill Breen and published by Crown Business, it occurred to me that LEGO…

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