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2 Ways You Should Never Pitch an Idea

August 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. Coming up with ideas is easy. Selling them to strangers is hard.…

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Nicholas Carr: Schools should beware the e-book bandwagon

August 7, 2011

  In an article featured by the Dallas Morning News (“Our fleeting focus,” Sunday, August 7, 2011), Nicholas Carr says that, given what we know now, schools should be wary of replacing textbooks with e-readers. I agree. In fact, I…

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A Brand is Bigger Than Performance

August 7, 2011

Here is an article written by Nigel Hollis for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. *    …

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Alan Trefler (Pegasystems) in “The Corner Office”

August 7, 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 Alan Trefler, founder and chief…

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Strategy’s strategist: An interview with Richard Rumelt

August 6, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an interview of Richard Rumelt (November 2007) co-conducted by Dan P. Lovallo and Lenny T. Mendonca and featured by McKinsey & Company’s McKinsey Quarterly. To read the compkete interview, please click here. *     *     *…

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Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

August 6, 2011

Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership: Executive Lessons from the Bully Pulpit James M. Strock Three Rivers Press (2001) “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt I selected the quotation for the title of my review…

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Three Integrity Questions for Leaders

August 6, 2011

Here is an excerot from an article written by Alaina Love and featured by the BloombergBusinessweek website (August 6, 2011) To check out all the resources, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. *     *    …

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Glut: A book review by Bob Morris

August 5, 2011

Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages Alex Wright Cornell University Press ((2007) How and why “the torch song of technological transcendentalism has passed from the visionary fringe into cultural mainstream” Alex Wright explains that in this volume, he approaches the…

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Paula Marantz Cohen on how to make books spark to life for college students

August 5, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Paula Marantz Cohen and featured by The American Scholar magazine. As you probably know already, The American Scholar is the venerable but lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history,…

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50 Prosperity Classics: A book review by Bob Morris

August 5, 2011

50 Prosperity Classics: Attract It, Create It, Manage It,  Share It Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey Publishing (2008) Henry Ford was right Note: This is one of the volumes in the 5o Classics series, each available in a softbound edition and…

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