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His Hour Upon the Stage

January 4, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an especially interesting article written by Douglas L. Wilson and featured online by the website of The American Scholar, the venerable but lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by…

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Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders? A book review by Bob Morris

January 3, 2012

Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders? A Better Way to Evaluate Leadership Poitential Jeffrey Cohn and Jay Moran Jossey-Bass (2011) How and why to cope with a leadership evaluation and development crisis to produce more effective leaders As…

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Joe’s Journal: On Tyranny and the Organization

January 3, 2012

Here is the latest post by Joseph A. Maciariello featured in the Joe’s Journal series at the Drucker Exchange (Dx) sponsored by the Drucker Institute. The Dx is a platform for bettering society through effective management and responsible leadership. It…

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How to become a thought leader in six (not-so-easy) steps

January 2, 2012

Thought leaders are those who generate thoughts that attract others’ interest, adoption, and advocacy. Here is an excerpt from an article written by Dorie Clark for the Harvard Business Review blog. In it, she shares her own no-nonsense thoughts about…

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Rules of the road: The quick guide to better networking

January 1, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tom Searcy for CBS MoneyWatch, the CBS  Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of its newsletters, please…

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John Donovan (AT&T) in “The Corner Office”

January 1, 2012

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 John Donovan, the chief technology…

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Understanding Michael Porter: A book review by Bob Morris

December 31, 2011

Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy Joan Magretta Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why organizations can achieve and then sustain competitive advantage, especially in turbulent and uncertain times  Although this book offers – in…

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Here Are Three Drucker Resolutions to Add to Your List

December 31, 2011

Here is a recent post featured online by the Drucker Exchange (Dx),  a platform for bettering society through effective management and responsible leadership. It is produced by the Drucker Institute, a think tank and action tank based at Claremont Graduate…

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Harvard Business Review on Increasing Customer Loyalty

December 29, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Increasing Customer Loyalty Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to create customers who are profitable This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business…

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