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Robert Steven Kaplan: An interview by Bob Morris

June 25, 2013

Robert Steven Kaplan is the Martin Marshall Professor of Management Practice and Senior Associate Dean at Harvard Business School. He is also and co-chairman of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, a global venture philanthropy firm. Prior to joining Harvard Business School…

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Helene D. Gayle (CARE) in “The Corner Office”

June 24, 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 Helene D. Gayle, president and…

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How to Storyboard Your Presentation

June 24, 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. * * * Before you start creating slides for your next talk,…

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What the Dog Saw: A book review by Bob Morris

June 24, 2013

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures Malcolm Gladwell Back Bay Books (2009) Note: I recently re-read this book while preparing for an interview and found the essays even in this volume even more interesting now than I did five…

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9 Qualities of Truly Confident People

June 24, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Dharmesh Shah and featured by LinkedIn. He is co-founder and CTO of HubSpot. HubSpot provides inbound marketing software that helps businesses attract, convert and engage customers on the web. The company,…

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Brian Klapper: An interview by Bob Morris

June 23, 2013

Brian Klapper is the President and Founding Partner of The Klapper Institute. He is an internationally recognized expert in operational and cultural corporate transformation. Brian has worked with global companies in a variety of sectors including: financial services, consumer products,…

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 6/17/13)

June 23, 2013

  I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim Digital State:…

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Keeping Up with the Quants: A book review by Bob Morris

June 22, 2013

Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim Harvard Business Review Press (2013) Almost everything most business leaders know about analytics they have learned from Tom Davenport and the material…

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Gandolfini Through The Eyes Of Those He Worked With Him

June 22, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article featured online by National Public Radio. To read the complete article, listen to a recording by WHYY, and check other NPR resources, please click here. Photo credit: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images * *…

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Original “Mad Man” David Ogilvy on the 10 Qualities of Creative Leaders

June 22, 2013

The website Brain Pickings is the brain child of Maria Popova, an “interestingness hunter-gatherer and curious mind at large,” who also writes for Wired UK and The Atlantic, among others, and is an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow. She has…

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