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How to get a good spin with “The Wheel of Retailing”

January 15, 2013

Remarkably few business executives are familiar with Malcolm McNair’s name, much less with his books and articles, and that’s a shame because he was one of the most influential business thinkers in the 20th century. One of his most important…

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Mark W. Schaefer: An interview by Bob Morris

January 15, 2013
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Leadership lessons to be learned from a brilliant symphony conductor

January 14, 2013

  Roger Nierenberg is a highly successful conductor who has performed with some of the most distinguished orchestras in America and Europe. Through his interactive program, The Music Paradigm, he has taught hundreds of top companies around the world how…

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How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes: Lessons in Mindfulness and Creativity from the Great Detective

January 14, 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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The Catalyst: A book review by Bob Morris

January 14, 2013

The Catalyst: How You Can Become an Extraordinary Growth Leader  Jeanne Liedtka, Robert Rosen, and Robert Wiltback Crown Business (2009) Note: I read this book when it was first published and recently re-read it. If anything, what it offers is even more…

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Delegate, Delegate, Delegate

January 14, 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. *     *     * Most managers complain of having too much to do, but very few…

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Likeable Social Media: A book review by Bob Morris

January 13, 2013

Likeable Social Media: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible Brand, and Be Generally Amazing Dave Kerpen McGraw-Hill (2011) How and why social media can increase our ability to listen, to respond, and to be empathic as no other…

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Dinesh C. Paliwal (Harman International Industries) in “The Corner Office”

January 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 Dinesh C. Paliwal, the chairman,…

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How to achieve large-scale transformation in a series of smaller pragmatic steps

January 13, 2013

Here is another online article from Deloitte’s Center for the Edge (probably co-authored by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison) that will assist rethinking the DNA of an organization. “The Center for the Edge, part of Deloitte…

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Geoffrey James on “Office Nut Cases: A Field Guide”

January 12, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Geoffrey James for BNET, what has since become the CBS Interactive Business Network. To read the omplete article and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the newsletters, please…

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