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How To Apply the 80/20 Rule At Work

November 7, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Nate Steere for mint.com. When I stumbled upon it, I was informed that Mint “makes your life easier. At Mint, we believe money is for living. So we make everything simple…

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The Leader’s Pocket Guide: A book review by Bob Morris

November 7, 2012

The Leader’s Pocket Guide: 101 Indispensable Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Any Situation John Baldoni AMACOM (2012) Valuable reminders for effective leadership at all levels and in all areas of the given enterprise Those who have read one or more of John Balboni’s previous…

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Tony Schwartz on “What Women Know about Leadership that Men Don’t”

November 7, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tony Schwartz 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 here. *     *     * No…

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How to Build a Better Innovation Team

November 7, 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. *     *     * No matter how great your idea, your innovation effort will…

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Michael J. Mauboussin on “The True Measures of Success”

November 6, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Michael J. Mauboussin 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 here. *   …

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Business Leadership Lessons from the Military

November 5, 2012

Military work — like business — is risky, pressured, and fast-changing. It calls for absolute clarity about the mission, extraordinary adaptability, and precise management of complex systems. To those such as I with a special interest in business lessons to…

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Morten T. Hansen on “Ten Ways to Get People to Change”

November 5, 2012

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Morten T. Hansen 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…

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The Clash of the Cultures: A book review by Bob Morris

November 4, 2012

The Clash of the Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation John C. Bogle John Wiley & Sons (2012) How a culture of short-term speculation now dominates a traditional culture of long-term investment…and why that must end The “clash” to which the title…

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John Duff (3C Interactive) in “The Corner Office”

November 4, 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 Duffy, C.E.O. of 3C Interactive, a mobile technology company.…

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From Calm Leadership, Lasting Change

November 3, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Nancy F. Koehn that appeared in The New York Times in which she discusses Rachel Carson, one of the great heroines of the 20th century whose heritage was multi-faceted and…

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