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3 Tips for Dealing with an Urgent Request

July 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. We live in an instant-response world where a simple push of a…

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Believe In The Future

July 7, 2011

  Believe In The Future   This is one of the cartoons I did for my client, the Rackspace Cloud.  It’s a riff on the famous Gandhi line, “Become the change you want to see.” In other words, the Rackspace cloud…

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The Idea Hunter: A book review by Bob Morris

July 7, 2011

The Idea Hunter: How to Find the Best Ideas and Make Them Happen Andy Boynton and Bill Fischer, with William Bole Jossey-Bass/John A Wiley Imprint The best ideas are out there…or inside you…just waiting for you to find them. The…

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Executive Transitions: The Importance of Relational Intelligence

July 7, 2011

Here’s another article written by Patricia Wheeler and featured by Marshall Goldsmith’s website,  Leading News, one that “delivers state-of-the-art information and ideas about best practices in leadership, helping successful people become even more successful, not only for themselves but also for…

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StrengthsFinder 2.0: A book review by Bob Morris

July 7, 2011

StrengthsFinder 2.0 Tom Rath Gallup Press (2007) Note: One of my passions in life is to help promote and (yes) celebrate business books that are “classics,” those deserving far more attention than they currently receive. That is certainly true of…

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Welcome to Marcus Buckingham’s Strengths Campus

July 7, 2011

The following history of the Strengths movement is only one of the resources now available at no cost to those who visit Marcus Buckingham’s Strengths Campus. Please click here to check it out. Although it may seem like a recent…

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Common Purpose: A book review by Bob Morris

July 7, 2011

Common Purpose: How Great Leaders Get Organizations to Achieve the Extraordinary Joel Kurtzman Jossey-Bass/John Wiley & Sons (2010) “Organizations themselves are mindless, so if people don’t repair them, no one will.” Regrettably, the old rules of employment have created in…

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The Real Secret to Personal Productivity

July 6, 2011

Here is an especiallly valuable article written by Steve Tobak 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…

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Doing Both: A book review by Bob Morris

July 6, 2011

Doing Both: Capturing Today’s Profit and Driving Tomorrow’s Growth Inder Sidhu FT Press/Pearson (2010) Organizational transformation is not — repeat not – a zero-sum game One of the most self-defeating mindsets is suggested by the admonition, “You can’t have your…

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