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Ten Things Only Bad Managers Say

December 9, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article for Bloomberg Businessweek online in which Liz Ryan explains how and why bad managers reveal their thoughtlessness and insensitivity by what they say and how they say it as well as by their…

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Prioritize Before Starting Your Project

December 8, 2011

  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. Launching a project before you have a good sense of all its…

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Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model: A book review by Bob Morris

December 7, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model Various Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to create or revise a business model that drives growth and profits This is one of the volumes in a…

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The Enemy of Engagement: A book review by Bob Morris

December 7, 2011

The Enemy of Engagement: Put an End to Workplace Frustration – and Get the Most from Your Employees Mark Royal and Tom Agnew AMACOM (2012) How to “take effective action to promote high levels of employee enablement and unleash the…

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Stop Competing to Be the Best

December 5, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Joan Magretta for the Harvard Business Review blog. 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 Rare Find: A book review by Bob Morris

December 4, 2011

The Rare Find: Spotting Exceptional Talent Befire Everyone Else George Anders Portfolio/Penguin (2011) How and why great talent “isn’t hard to find if you know how [and where] to look” As George Anders explains in the Introduction, he spent two…

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Ruth J. Simmons (Brown University) in “The Corner Office”

December 4, 2011

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 Ruth J. Simmons, president of…

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Strategy under uncertainty

December 2, 2011

Here is an article featured by The McKinsey Quarterly online, published by McKinsey & Company. As Hugh G. Courtney, Jane Kirkland,  and S. Patrick Viguerie explain in it, the traditional approach to strategy requires precise predictions and thus often leads…

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The Myth of Work-Life Balance

December 2, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Beeson for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please…

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