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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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The best innovators are need seekers

November 16, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article in which Gijs van Wulfen discusses the result of a Booz & Company study and shares his own thoughts about why and how innovators are need seekers. To heck out the study, please…

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James Taylor : An interview by Bob Morris

November 16, 2012

James Taylor is the CEO and a Principal Consultant of Decision Management Solutions and a leading expert in decision management and decisioning technologies. He is passionate about using decisioning technologies like business rules and predictive analytics to help companies improve…

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Dorie Clark on “How Nate Silver Won the 2012 Presidential Election”

November 15, 2012

As President Obama and Mitt Romney can tell you, it’s getting harder every day to win public attention — thus, the billions they spent on this year’s presidential campaign. Overall, the election of 2012 has shown that we’re at a…

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Here’s an Important Innovation Lesson: Disrupt Before You’re Disrupted

November 15, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Patrick Houston and published by InformationWeek. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * Even innovators struggle with the pace of change. Here are some of the…

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How “social intelligence” can guide decisions

November 15, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article from The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company and written by Martin Harrysson, Estelle Metayer, and Hugo Sarrazin, in which they explain why, by offering decision makers rich real-time data, social…

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