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The Secret of Teams: A book review by Bob Morris

December 15, 2011

The Secret of Teams: What Great Teams Know and Do Mark Miller Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2011) High-impact leadership + high-impact teams = high-impact community Mark Miller is the co-author with Ken Blanchard of a previous book, The Secret: What Great Leaders…

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The early-warning signals of active inertia

December 14, 2011

In one of the most valuable business books written in recent years, The Upside of Turbulence: Seizing Opportunity in an Uncertain World published by HarperBusiness, Donald Sull describes what he characterizes as active inertia: “the tendency of well-established organizations to…

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Robert H. Frank: An interview by Bob Morris

December 13, 2011

Robert H. Frank is Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics in the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Frank is a monthly contributor to the “Economic View” column in The New York Times and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos. He has also served as…

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How to Take Control of Your To-Do List

December 13, 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. Having an unruly to-do list can be overwhelming. If you find yourself…

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Why People Are Not Your Greatest Asset

December 12, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Anthony J. Bradley and Mark P. McDonald for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to…

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Amy Schulman (Pfizer) in “The Corner Office”

December 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 Amy Schulman, executive vice president…

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Willful Blindness: A book review by Bob Morris

December 10, 2011

Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril Margaret Heffernan Walker Books (2011) How and why all of us should develop  “fierce determination to see” whatever we need to understand Margaret Heffernan’s background in business is wide as…

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Higher Ambition: A book review by Bob Morris

December 10, 2011

Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren Harvard Business School Press (2011) Valuable lessons from 36 CEOs who create simultaneously value that has both economic and…

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Michael Porter and Adrian Slywotzky on how the right strategies and tactics can create demand

December 9, 2011

In her recently published book, Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy, Joan Magretta has much of value to say.  In Chapter 4: Creating Value: The Core  (Part Two), for example, she discusses Enterprise-Rent-a-Car, Zipcar, Southwest Airlines,…

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What Executives Really Need to Know about Employee Engagement

December 9, 2011

In their employee engagement study, Elizabeth Craig of the Accenture Institute for High Performance and Lauren DeSimone of the International Consortium for Executive Development Research, explore this topic in depth. Based on research, they identify the key drivers of engagement,…

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