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The Optimization Edge: Reinventing Decision Making to Maximize All Your Company’s Assets Steve Sashihara McGraw-Hill (2011) How to make complex decisions and recommendations about the best way to deploy assets In a book I very much admire, Judgment: How Winning…
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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 Bill Kling who is founder and…
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The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices: How the Digital Magicians of the MIT Media Lab Are Creating the Innovative Technologies That Will Transform Our Lives Frank Moss Crown Business (2011) How and why “individuals empowered with radically new technologies…can succeed in…
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The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done Peter Drucker HarperBusiness/A HarperCollins Imprint (2006) “The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.” Note: The title of this review is a portion of one of Peter…
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Best Practices in Talent Management: How the World’s Leading Corporations Manage, Develop, and Retain Talent Marshall Goldsmith and Louis Carter, Co-Editors Pfeiffer/A Wiley Imprint (2009) Ultimately, the effectiveness of best practices depends on those who execute them As co-editors Marshall…
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Let Me Tell You a Story: A Lifetime in the Game John Feinstein and Arnold (“Red”) Auerbach Back Bay Books (2005) Emperor of the Celtic Dynasty This is one of two best sports biographies that I have read in recent…
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Here is an excerpt from still another outstanding article written by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer, featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly (January 2012), published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, obtain information about the firm, access…
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From Values to Action: The Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership Harry M. Jansen Kraemer Jr. Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2011) How and why leadership is about the growth and positive change that almost anyone can bring about while working with others…
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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. How many times have you trained a colleague in a task, only to…
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Josh Linkner on “Defying Gravity” to Achieve Greatness
Here’s a recent post by Josh Linkner at his website. To check out the wealth of resources that he provides, please click here. * * * When the space shuttle takes off, it burns two-thirds of its fuel in the…
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