Wall Street Journal

Introducing Jennifer Aaker

June 22, 2015

A social psychologist and marketer, Jennifer Aaker is the General Atlantic Professor of Marketing at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Her research spans time, money and happiness. She focuses on questions such as: What actually makes people happy, as…

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The Thought Leader Interview: Aetna’s Mark Bertolini

June 5, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an interview of Mark Bertolini by Jon Katzenbach, Gretchen Anderson, and Art Kleiner for strategy+ business magazine, published by PwC strategy& LLC (formerly Booz & Company). To read the complete interview, check out other…

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Remembering Dave Goldberg, the Ultimate Mensch

May 13, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article by Adam Grant featured by LinkedIn Pulse. To read the complete article, check out others, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * * Most of us are lucky if…

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Robbie Kellman Baxter: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

May 5, 2015

Robbie Kellman Baxter created the popular business term “Membership Economy.” She is the founder of Peninsula Strategies LLC, a strategy consulting firm. The Peninsula Strategies website is www.peninsulastrategies.com. Her clients have included large organizations like Netflix, SurveyMonkey and Yahoo!, as…

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Robbie Kellman Baxter: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

April 30, 2015

Robbie Kellman Baxter created the popular business term “Membership Economy.” She is the founder of Peninsula Strategies LLC, a strategy consulting firm. The Peninsula Strategies website is www.peninsulastrategies.com. Her clients have included large organizations like Netflix, SurveyMonkey and Yahoo!, as…

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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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A different perspective on Selma and Ferguson in 2015

March 16, 2015

Self-anointed “experts” on race relations and economic inequality continue to blog (i.e. bloviate) about what happened in Selma, Alabama (on March 9, 1965), and what lessons can be learned from it that apply to race relations today, there and elsewhere,…

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Elements of a Good Story

January 25, 2015

In Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, Hermina Ibarra explains that all great stories, from Antigone to Casablanca to Star Wars, derive their power from a beginning-middle-end end story structure and these other basic characteristics: A protagonist: The…

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Seattle Seahawks and the contemporary workplace

January 9, 2015

In an article written for the Wall Street Journal (Thursday, January 8, 2015), Kevin Clark suggests that total candor is the Seattle Seahawks’ competitive edge. Here is a brief excerpt. To read the complete article, check out others, obtain subscription…

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How to create or increase demand for what you offer with the power of consumer engagement ideas

November 4, 2014

In the first chapter of Twitter is Not a Strategy: Rediscovering the Art of Brand Marketing, to be published by Palgrave Macmillan (November 2014), Tom Doctoroff observes, ” For those of you now associated with an organization that is struggling…

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