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William N. Thorndike, Jr.: An interview by Bob Morris

December 3, 2012

William N. Thorndike, Jr. founded Housatonic Partners in Boston in 1994 and has been Managing Director since that time.  Prior to that, he worked with T. Rowe Price Associates where he did investment research in the nascent field of business services and Walker & Company where…

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How to Keep Your To-Do List Fresh with the 3-Day Rule

December 3, 2012

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. * * * A to-do list is only useful if you cross things…

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Deborah L. Jacobs on “10 Things To Do When You Win The Lottery”

December 2, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Deborah L. Jacobs and featured by Forbes magazine. To read the complete article, check out other sources, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. *…

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Matthew E. May: Second Interview, Part 2, by Bob Morris

December 2, 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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Sandra L. Kurtzig (Kenandy) in “The Corner Office”

December 2, 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 Sandra L. Kurtzig, chairwoman and…

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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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