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In Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation published by Riverhead Books/Penguin (2010), Steven Johnson examines the origin and development of what is quite literally one of history’s coolest ideas: the air conditioner. Based in Brooklyn, the Sackett-Wilhelm Lithography Company…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by J.N. Chaney for Cracked.com, the most visited humor website in the world, with over 300 million monthly page views. The award-winning site was founded in 2007 by Jack O’Brien and…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Teams Various Contributors with Editors of Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review Press (2013) Most teams self-destruct. Don’t let that happen to yours. This is one in a series of anthologies of individual articles that…
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The Fearless Front Line: The Key to Liberating Leaders to Improve and Grow Their Business Ray Attiyah Bibliomotion Books & Media (2013) Two key questions: “Liberate leaders from what?” and “How to do that?” No one can deny that every…
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The concept is brilliant, in part, because it is so simple: ask some of the most accomplished people in business share the secrets to their success — the best advice they’ve ever received. The result is…
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Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Finance and the Entrepreneurial Management Units. He graduated from Yale College and Harvard’s Economics Department. Much of his research focuses on…
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Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus Michael A. Roberto Pearson Prentice Hall (2006) Note: I recently read this book while preparing for an interview and found its insights even more relevant and…
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4 Ways to Change the Energy Conversation!
Here is a guest post provided by Achim Nowak to the Great Leadership website. To learn more about the organization and its resources, please click here. * * * We love to run personality profiles on our leaders. These profiles…
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