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McKinsey Quarterly: The Ten Most Popular Articles (Third Quarter 2015)

October 2, 2015

These are the ten articles that have been most popular with readers of the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm, obtain subscription information, and register…

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Reinventing Society in the Wake of Big Data: A Conversation with Alex (“Sandy”) Pentland

August 31, 2015

According to John Brockman, Publisher & Editor, Edge.org, “With Big Data we can now begin to actually look at the details of social interaction and how those play out, and are no longer limited to averages like market indices or…

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HBR Guide to Leading Teams: A book review by Bob Morris

August 27, 2015

HBR Guide to Leading Teams Mary Shapiro Harvard Business Review Press (2015) “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams Most of the volumes in the…

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How to separate learning myths from reality

August 2, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Artin Atabaki, Stacey Dietsch, and Julia M. Sperling for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. They discuss misconceptions about the brain that are embedded in corporate training programs…

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The Nine Questions That All Breakthrough Innovators Ask

July 24, 2015

Here is a recent blog post by Josh Linkner. I urge you to check out the wealth of valuable resources at his website. * * * From discovering new drug therapies to winning triathlons, the capacity for human achievement is…

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What Every Manager Should Know About Machine Learning

July 21, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Mike Yeomans for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…

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The 24/7 Work Culture’s Toll on Families and Gender Equality

June 4, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Claire Cain Miller for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * *…

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Thinkers 50 Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

May 26, 2015

Thinkers 50 Innovation: Breakthrough Thinking to Take Your Business to the Next Level Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove McGraw-Hill Education (2014) How does an organization establish and/or strengthen a capability for discontinuous innovation? This is one of the volumes in…

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Greg McKeown on “The Pursuit of Less”

April 27, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an interview of Greg McKeown by Frank Kalman for written Talent Management magazine. To read the interview, check out all the resources, and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and/or Chief Learning…

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Chip and Dan Heath on “Four principles for making better decisions”

March 28, 2015

Authors (and brothers) Chip and Dan Heath propose four steps for improving decision making. Below is an overview of that process, whose initials spell “WRAP.” It’s elaborated in their new book, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and…

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