Tue.Jan 24, 2012

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Three Crucial Roles that Can Create Business Success (A Case Study about Apple from the NY Times)

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{This is prompted by a terrific article, with many images that add insight, in the New York Times about Apple: How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work by Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher. Both Tyler Cowen and Paul Krugman have praised this article. Cowen says it deserves one of the Sidney Awards from David Books: [.].

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The 10X Rule: A book review by Bob Morris

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The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure Grant Cardone John Wiley & Sons (2011) How to increase sustainable fulfillment of human potentialities, one’s own as well as those of others Many years ago, I read a book written by David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big, that helped me to widen [.].

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Think About This Before You Reorganize

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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. Managers love to reorganize, but few employees like being reorganized. Structural changes provoke anxiety and confusion. Before you decide to redraw the org chart, consider these two issues: [.].

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Going for growth in a go-slow world

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Here is an excerpt from still another outstanding article written by Lowell Bryan, John Horn, and Sven Smit, featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly (September 2011), published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, obtain information about the firm, access other resources, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * [.].

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Josh Linkner on “Child’s Play”

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As a parent of four and a grandparent of ten, I count among my most precious blessings each and every opportunity I have to play games with them. Golf with the three sons, board games with the daughter and teenage grand children (usually chess) and whatever board and electronic games the younger grandchildren wish to play. [.].

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