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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative Austin Kleon Workman Publishing Company (2012) The power and achievement of “artistic theft” A 12th century French monk, Bernard of Chartres, once observed, “We are like dwarfs standing…
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Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World Nataly Kelly and Jost Zetzsche Perigdee/The Penguin Group (2012) How and why “humanity depends on translation for its successful functioning” As co-authors Nataly Kelly and Jost Zetzsche point out, the word “translation” comes…
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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 click here. *…
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Previously, Kevin Allen spent two decades at the top of advertising giants McCann-Erickson, the Interpublic Group, and Lowe Worldwide. He is now CEO and founder of a London-based business transformation company, re:kap, and globally recognised as one of the advertising industry’s most accomplished growth professionals. The…
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Here is an especially informative article co-authored by Michael Birshan and Jayanti Kar, featured by The McKinsey Quarterly which is published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, learn more about this remarkable firm, and register to…
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Here is a brief excerpt from another outstanding article from The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, in which co-authors Scott Keller and Colin Price explain why organizations must build the capacity to learn and keep changing over time to sustain high performance, To read the…
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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 Jacqueline Novogratz is C.E.O. of the Acumen Fund, which invests…
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We: How to Increase Performance and Profits Through Full Engagement Rudy Karsan and Kevin Kruse John Wiley & Sons (2011) Why “there is nothing more important for a person or an organization than full engagement” The term “full engagement” refers to a never-ending process rather than…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Thomas H. Davenport and D.J. Patil for the Harvard Business Review. 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. Artwork:…
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Warren Bennis on “How Business Schools Can Teach ‘Character 101′”
Here is an excerpt from an article written by Warren Bennis for the BloombergBusinessweek website. To read the complete arricle, check out others, and obtain subsctiption information, please click here. * * * In my last…
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