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Being a Hero for Women at Work

September 12, 2014

Here is a portion of an interview by Kate Everson of software developer SAP’s chief learning officer, Jenny Dearborn that appeared in Talent Management magazine. Dearborn discusses what women need to reach the chief executive spot and what they can…

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What Stays in Vegas: A book review by Bob Morris

August 27, 2014

What Stays in Vegas: The World of Personal Data — Lifeblood of Big Business — and the End of Privacy as We Know It Adam Tanner PublicAffairs (2014) What stays in Las Vegas? An abundance of personal data used to…

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The Three-Word Problem That Can Destroy Your Life

July 25, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Greg McKeown for LinkedIn Pulse. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. * * * We have a problem—and the odd thing is we not only…

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Code Halos: A book review by Bob Morris

July 7, 2014

Code Halos: How the Digital Lives of People, Things, and Organizations are Changing the Rules of Business Malcolm Frank, Paul Roehrig, and Ben Pring John Wiley & Sons (2014) How and why halo issues are, in fact, business issues for…

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Tim Ferriss on the incredible power of RAM: random-access memory

June 20, 2014

Can you draw — from memory — the face of a penny? Probably not. That’s why it is so important to understand the reason and then you can learn a foreign language twice as fast. How? Tim Ferriss responds in…

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Why Innovating Means Eliminating Much of What You Have Just Created

May 31, 2014

Here is an excerpt from an article by Greg McKeown for Fast Company magazine. He explains why, although it may seem like a waste of time or a step backward, we sometimes need to subtract from our “big ideas” to…

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Denise Lee Yohn on “How to become an exceptional brand”

May 8, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from my interview of Denise Lee Yohn, author of What Great Brands Do: The Seven Brand-Building Principles that Separate the Best from the Rest (Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand 2014). * * * Today, when there are…

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Josh Linkner on how to avoid “the complexity trap”

May 8, 2014

Here is a brief article by Josh Linkner during which he shares his thoughts about how to get to what Oliver Wendell Holmes once characterized as “simplicity on the other side of complexity.” This is what Albert Einstein also had…

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Art Kleiner on “A New Life for strategy+business magazine”

April 4, 2014

In the article that follows, Art Kleiner shares his thoughts and feelings about a publisher’s name change but, channeling Heraclitus (“Everything changes, nothing changes”), reassures us that strategy+business magazine’s commitment to superior knowledge leadership will continue, uncompromised. However, I think…

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Invaluable advice for job-hunting college seniors

March 18, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by David l. Pierce for the Wall Street Journal. You may have a college senior in your family or know one or more elsewhere. If so, I hope you will share it.…

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