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How to Influence People with Your Ideas

May 13, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Butman 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 HBR…

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Predictive Analytics: A book review by Bob Morris

May 13, 2013

Predictive Analytics: the Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die Eric Siegel John Wiley & Sons (2013) The skills and tools needed to improve the accuracy of predictions of what will – and will not — happen…

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Brooke Denihan Barrett (Denihan Hospitality Group) in “The Corner Office”

May 13, 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 Brooke Denihan Barrett who is…

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The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace: A book review by Bob Morris

May 12, 2013

The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace: Know What Boosts Your Value, Kills Your Chances, and Will Make You Happier Cy Wakeman Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) How to increase one’s value as well as eliminate whatever can diminish it and, meanwhile,…

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 5/6/13)

May 12, 2013

  I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die Eric Siegel Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams: How…

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5 signs a workplace is family-friendly

May 11, 2013

Here is an article written by Amy Levin-Epstein for CBS MoneyWatch, the CBS Interactive Business Network. Here is an article written by Amy Levin-Epstein for CBS MoneyWatch, the CBS Interactive Business Network. The happiest workers tend to be the most…

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Why Ken Robinson is so important

May 11, 2013

Why don’t we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it’s because we’ve been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies — far from being cultivated for their…

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Reut Schwartz Hebron on “How to Use Brain Science to Drive Change”

May 10, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Reut Schwartz Hebron 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…

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Fear Your Strengths: A book review by Bob Morris

May 10, 2013

Fear Your Strengths: What You Are Best at Could Be Your Biggest Problem Robert Kaplan and Robert Kaiser Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2013) Actually, what we should fear are complacency and self-satisfaction as well as the assumption that “just good enough” really…

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Three Rules for Making a Company Truly Great

May 10, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Michael E. Raynor and Mumtaz Ahmed 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…

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