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Business Basics: Decision-Making

June 1, 2018

For at least several thousand years, at least since Aristotle, the three steps of the decision-making process have remained essentially the same: 1.  What is the question to answer or the problem to solve? Comment: If you don’t get this…

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Business Nuggets from Simon SInek

May 14, 2018

In 50 Business Classics, Tom Butler-Bowdon includes a discussion of Simon Sinek’s bestseller, Start with Why. These are among the dozens of insights that caught my eye: o “Every company knows what it does — the products or services it sells.…

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Bob Morris on Scott Galloway’s The Four

October 8, 2017

The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Scott Galloway Portfolio/Penguin Random House (October 2017) Are these Four Horsemen deities of “god, love, sex, and consumption” or agents of “Death, the destroyer of Worlds”? Scott Galloway’s answer…

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Seven Things Successful Work-Seekers Do

August 30, 2017

Bruce Hazen is the co-author of the recently published book, Business Models for Teams: See How Your Organization Really Works and How Each Person Fits In, published by Portfolio/Penguin Random House (June 2017). Here are the dos and don’ts he…

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What it takes to become a trillion-dollar company

August 10, 2017

In The Four, published by Portfolio/Penguin Random House (October 2017), Scott Galloway examines “four technology giants [that] have inspired more joy, connections, prosperity, and discovery than any [other] entity in history. Along the way, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google have…

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Are you eager to learn what you need to know about business?

August 9, 2017

  In The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, published by Portfolio/Penguin Random House (October 2017), Scott Galloway claims that “it’s never been easier to be a billionaire, but it’s never been harder to be a…

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The Net and the Butterfly: A book review by Bob Morris

March 17, 2017

The Net and the Butterfly: The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack Portfolio/Penguin Random House (February 2017) How breakthrough thinking can accelerate personal growth and professional development Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack make…

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Different Types of Breakthrough Thinking

March 8, 2017

In The Net and the Butterfly, Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack explain “the art and practice of breakthrough thinking.” They observe, “For many, breakthroughs are like butterflies — beautiful and awe-inspiring, yet erratic and elusive. Some people think they…

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Simon Sinek on purpose-driven collaboration

February 4, 2017

In Together Is Better: A Little Book of Inspiration, published by Portfolio/Penguin Random House (September 2016), Simon Sinek offers some excellent advice on how to follow this African proverb: “If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want…

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The Leadership Behavior That’s Most Important to Employees

November 14, 2016

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Christine Porath 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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