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The Complete Executive: A book review by Bob Morris

December 1, 2012

The Complete Executive: The 10-Step System to Powering Up Peak Performance Karen Wright Bibliomotion (2012) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle The last time I checked, Amazon offers 5,515 titles…

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Your Most Pressing Management Concerns: What You’ve Told Us

December 1, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Andrea Ovans for the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click…

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The Indispensable, Unlikely Leadership of Abraham Lincoln

December 1, 2012

Here is a link to an interview with Gautam Mukunda, Harvard Business School assistant professor and author of Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter. The HBR IdeaCast is a weekly series, bringing you the analysis and advice of the leading minds…

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Here are strategy+business magazine’s “Best Business Books of 2012”

November 30, 2012

Theodore Kinni has just published an article in which he announces strategy+business magazine‘s “Best Business Books of 2012.”  They are grouped within eight separate categories. s+b is published by Booz & Company. To read the complete article, check out other…

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Colin Price on “Leadership and the art of plate spinning”

November 30, 2012

In this article featured in The McKinsey Quarterly published by McKinsey & Company, Colin Price explains why senior executives will better balance people and priorities by embracing the paradoxes of organizational life. Here is a brief excerpt from it. To…

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Maxwell Wessel and Clayton M. Christensen on “Surviving Disruption”

November 30, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Maxwell Wessel and Clayton M. Christensen for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. Photography: Nash…

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Matthew E. May: Second Interview, Part 1, by Bob Morris

November 30, 2012

Matthew E. May is the author of The Laws of Subtraction: 6 Simple Rules for Winning in the Age of Excess Everything, as well as three previous, award-winning books: The Elegant Solution, In Pursuit of Elegance, and The Shibumi Strategy.…

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The Essential CIO: Insights from IBM’s Global Chief Information Officer Study (2011)

November 30, 2012

How are technology leaders helping their organizations adapt to the accelerating change and complexity that mark today’s competitive and economic landscape? To find out, IBM interviewed 3,018 CIOs, spanning 71 countries and 18 industries. Public and private sector CIOs described…

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Tom Kelley and David Kelley on “Fighting the Fears that Block Creativity”

November 29, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tom Kelley and David Kelley for the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email…

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Harder Than I Thought: A book review by Bob Morris

November 29, 2012

Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why “the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present” in…

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