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The Power of Rachel Beckwith’s “big, crazy goal”

September 12, 2011

Here is one of the posts by Simon Sinek (on July 27, 2011) at his blog, Re:Focus (Simple Ideas to Help You Thrive). Once you read it, I doubt if you will soon forget it…if ever. To check out Simon’s…

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The Two-Second Advantage: A book review by Bob Morris

September 12, 2011

The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future — Just Enough Vivek Ranadivé and Kevin Maney Crown Business (2011) The power of prediction-based talent: Intuition on “the other side of complexity” At least a century ago, Oliver Wendell…

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Thomas Jefferson, Author of America: A book review by Bob Morris

September 12, 2011

Thomas Jefferson: Author of America Christopher Hitchens  Harper Perennial (2009) Who was behind “the opaque curtain”? About this time of year, I re-read brief biographies of my favorite U.S. Presidents such as this one, written by one of the most…

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Avoid 3 Common Decision-Traps

September 12, 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. Making decisions is your most critical job as a leader. The…

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Another day that “will live in infamy”….

September 11, 2011

All of us have memories of where we were and what we were doing on the morning of September 11, 2001. I was in the shower when my wife told me with obvious distress that “a small plane or maybe…

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The Five Habits Of Highly Innovative Leaders

September 11, 2011

Here’s an article written by Bruce Upbin for Forbes magazine.  To check out all the online resources, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscriptions information, please click here. *     *     * We’re proud to be publishing the first appearance…

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Tiffany Cooper Gueye (Building Educated Leaders for Life, or BELL) in “The Corner Office”

September 11, 2011

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 Tiffany Cooper Gueye chief executive of…

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Head’s Up! A great business book will soon be published.

September 10, 2011

On October 4, 2011, Demand: Creating What People Love Before They Know They Want It, will be published by Crown Business. Written by Adrian Slywotzky with Karl Weber. In my opinion, it is one of the most valuable and will,…

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In Their Time: A book review by Bob Morris

September 10, 2011

In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders Of The Twentieth Century Anthony J. Mayo and Nitin Nohria Harvard Business Press (2005) How great business leaders “seized the zeitgeist of their times” I recently re-read Paths to Power, co-authored by Anthony…

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Put Ethics First, then Customers and Profits

September 8, 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. Everyone knows a business needs ethics, customers, and profits, but a lot of…

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