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Know Your Unwritten Plan

September 21, 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. When preparing for the future, you need two plans—one you write down,…

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Breaking Away: A book review by Bob Morris

September 21, 2011

Breaking Away: How Great Leaders Create Innovation That Drives Sustainable Growth – and Why Others Fail Jane Stevenson and Bilal Kaafarani McGraw-Hill (2011) How and why to create a “magic mix” of innovation leadership with innovation processes Year after year,…

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The Twelve Attributes of a Truly Great Place to Work

September 21, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tony Schwartz 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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Flex and Job Security: The New Balancing Act

September 20, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. “Visit us daily to discover issues that matter,…

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The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan: A book review by Bob Morris

September 20, 2011

The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Get Immediate Results George B. Bradt, Jayme A. Check, and Jorge E. Pedraza John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2009) “Finis origine pendet” (The end depends on…

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Ratan Naval Tata gets candid on the recently published book, Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value

September 20, 2011

Thanks to Bloomberg UTV, here is a rare opportunity to share what Ratan Naval Tata has to say about Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value, recently published by Harvard Business Review Press.  In this book on leadership,…

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Kevin Maney: Second Interview, by Bob Morris

September 19, 2011

  In his own words…. I’ve had a long career as a journalist and author. Lately, I’ve added a new hat: I’ve joined VSA Partners as its Editorial Director. The plan is to marry business to big-think journalism in a way that hopefully helps…

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Changing companies’ minds about women

September 19, 2011

Here is an excerpt from another outstanding article featured by The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, in which Joanna Barsh and Lareina Yee explain how and why leaders who are serious about getting more women into senior management…

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Watch out for these two-sided traits

September 19, 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. Being a high-achiever can be rewarding, but many smart, ambitious professionals are still…

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Darwin, the Market Whiz

September 19, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an especially interesting article written by Robert H. Frank that was featured in The New York Times (Sunday, September 18, 2011). To read the complete article, please click here. *     *     * Since Darwin, the pioneering naturalist,…

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