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The Five Personalities of Innovators: Which One Are You?

June 7, 2012

Here is an excerpt from another outstanding article featured by Forbes magazine’s website and written by Brenna Sniderman. To read the complete article, check out other resources, sign up for free email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. *     *  …

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Off Balance: A book review by Bob Morris

June 7, 2012

Off Balance: Getting Beyond the Work-Life Myth to Personal and Professional Satisfaction Matthew Kelly Hudson Street Press/The Penguin Group (2011) A paradox for our times: One’s career and personal life are separate…and inseparable The work-life balance is an issue that has fascinated me for decades. Hence my…

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Does Innovation Have to Be Rocket Science?

June 6, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Mitra Best for the PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) Innovation blog. To read the complete article, check out other resources, and sign up for email updates, please click here. *     *     * I…

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How to Manage the Information Avalanche

June 6, 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. *     *     * Gone are the days of…

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Lessons in Complementary Leadership from Disney and Coca-Cola

June 6, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by George Bradt, a regular columnist at the Forbes magazine website. To read the complete article, please click here. *     *     * Most leaders are unbalanced. They are…

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How to Retain Your Most Engaged and Talented Employees

June 5, 2012

Here is an article written by Nisa Chitakasem for Talent Management magazine. To check out all the resources and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and/or Chief Learning Officer magazines published by MediaTec, please click here. *    …

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The Right Honourable Mr. Burke

June 5, 2012

I am among those who have a keen interest in the Age of Enlightenment and especially in philosophers such as Edmund Burke whose thoughts about democratic cultures and human rights had such a profound impact on the leaders of  revolutions…

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The next time you feel a little bit stupid….

June 4, 2012

The next time you feel a little bit stupid, just dig this up and read it again. You’ll begin to think you’re a genius. (On September 17, 1994, Alabama ‘s Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.) Question: If you could live forever,…

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Morten Hansen on “How Great Leaders Make Their Own Luck”

June 4, 2012

Morten Hansen is a professor at University of California, Berkeley, and at INSEAD, France. He was previously a professor at Harvard Business School for a number of years. Prior to joining Harvard University, Hansen obtained his Ph.D. from the business school at Stanford University. In addition…

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I is an Other: A book review by Bob Morris

June 4, 2012

I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World James Geary Harper/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (2011) How and why the metaphor “lives a secret life all around us” Sometimes…

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