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Donald Sull responds to an especially important question: “How can I recognize a golden opportunity from fools gold?”

November 19, 2012

Here is a brief portion from material on Donald Sull‘s website. To check out a wealth of resources, please click here. * * * In terms of knowing whether an opportunity is as golden as it seems, below are some…

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“Must See” Programs: The Bloomberg Game Changers

November 19, 2012

Want to get an insider’s perspective on the business and media leaders who climbed to the top and changed our world? Then check out Bloomberg Game Changers. This original documentary series profiles the elite men and women who have re-defined…

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Grow Your Company as Big as Zappos.com: 7 Tips From Tony Hsieh

November 19, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article  written by Allison Fass and published by Inc. magazine in which Tony Hsieh, serial entrepreneur and CEO of Zappos.com, offers leadership advice for fast-growing companies. To read the complete article, please click here. *  …

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How to Create a Mind: A book review by Bob Morris

November 18, 2012

How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed Ray Kurzweil Viking/The Penguin Group (2012) How and why the patterns theory of mind can help to reveal “the secret of human thought” The title of my review is…

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Seth Besmertnik (Conductor) in the “Corner Office”

November 18, 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 Seth Besmertnik, co-founder and chief…

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Here’s a Better Way to Brainstorm in Groups

November 17, 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. * * * Brainstorming has gotten a bad rap for leading to…

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Vijay Govindarajan on “The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals”

November 17, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Vijay Govindarajan 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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Josh Linkner on “Waste on the Shop Room Floor”

November 17, 2012

Here is another brief but thoughtful and thought-provoking post by Josh at this website. If you really want to put some white caps on your gray matter, check out his most recent book, Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive…

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The Yale Book of Quotations: A book review by Bob Morris

November 16, 2012

The Yale Book of Quotations Fred R. Shapiro, Editor Yale University Press (2006) A treasury of “highly quotatious” insights During the past 25-30 years, I have purchased and then made frequent use of dozens of anthologies of quotations (including revised…

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The Endurance: A book review by Bob Morris

November 16, 2012

The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition Caroline Alexander Alfred A. Knopf (1999) Not Only to Endure But to Prevail I read this book when it was first published and then published a review about it in 2000 after I had…

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