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The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders Put People Before Numbers Bill Conaty and Ram Charan Crown Business (2010) I agree with Conaty and Charan that Steve Jobs is the archetypical “talent master.” Few others possess his combination of intelligence, temperament,…
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The most valuable business insights never become out-of-date. They retain their relevance from one generation to the next. For example, consider this brief excerpt from an article written by Daniel Goleman for Harvard Business Review (June 1996) in which he explains what distinguishes great leaders from…
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The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton Harvard Business Review Press (1996) How do you know of your organization is improving, deteriorating, or stagnant? Note: Do not be deterred by the publication date…
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A Technique for Producing Ideas: The Simple, Five-Step Formula Anyone Can Use to Be More Creative in Business and in Life! James Webb Young Waking Lion Press (2009) More, much more than a technique This booklet (28 pages) was originally…
Read MoreAdam 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 Kon Leong, co-founder, president and…
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Rich Horwath helps people live strategically — to get more out of their business and more out of their lives. He is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best selling author on strategy. As the CEO of the…
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HBR Guide to Better Business Writing Bryan A. Garner Harvard Business Review Pfress (2012) “I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.” Steven Wright This is one of the first volumes in a new series of anthologies of…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Stan Goldberg for Psychology Today magazine. He acknowledges that change isn’t easy, but is convinced that it is almost always possible. He suggests ten rules that, if followed diligently, can…
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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. * * * When you realize the forecasts you set for the quarter…
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Why do only long-term, high-impact books become business “classics”
We seem to live in an age of instant gratification during which the average attention span resembles a strobe light blink and most people are only interested in (often obsessed with) the latest, “the best,” what’s new, the biggest, the…
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