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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. “Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.” To read the complete article, [.].

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Here is an excerpt from another outstanding article featured by The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, in which Joanna Barsh and Lareina Yee explain how and why leaders who are serious about getting more women into senior management need a hard-edged approach to overcome the invisible barriers holding them back. To read the [.].

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Daniel Diermeier is the IBM Professor of Regulation and Competitive Practice, a Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at the Kellogg School of Management, and a Professor of Political Science at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, all at Northwestern University. He is director of the Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship [.].

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article by Theodore Kinni and featured by strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company. In it, Kinni — the co-author of Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service – introduces a lesson in creating product-based customer experiences from The Method Method: 7 Obsessions That Helped Our Scrappy Start-Up Turn an [.].

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Whitney Johnson for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * I had just announced to one of my dearest friends that [.].

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Here is a recent post by Richard Rumelt. He is the author of one of two books to be discussed at the next FFBS session, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters and the Harry and Elsa Kunin Professor of Business and Society at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. I urge you [.].

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

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. When preparing for the future, you need two plans—one you write down, and one that’s unwritten, fluid, and evolving. This blueprint exists in your mind as a living, [.].

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Here’s a brief video (just under 7 minutes) of Mr. Rogers about children, his program… reminding us of some of what is most important. From his testimony to the Senate, 1969. (This was sent in by a reader to Andrew Sullivan’s blog - “The Good Neighbor”). Filed under: Randy's blog entries Tagged: Mr. Rogers, priorities.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Thanks to Bloomberg UTV, here is a rare opportunity to share what Ratan Naval Tata has to say about Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value, recently published by Harvard Business Review Press. In this book on leadership, five Harvard veterans (Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren) [.].

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Get Immediate Results George B. Bradt, Jayme A. Check, and Jorge E. Pedraza John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2009) “Finis origine pendet” (The end depends on the beginning.) The aphorism offered by Latin poet Marcus Manilius would be an appropriate core [.].

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Teresa Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration and a Director of Research at Harvard Business School and co-author of The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work. Originally educated as a chemist, Teresa received her doctorate in psychology from Stanford University. She studies how everyday [.].

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership Anthony J. Mayo, Nitin Nohria, and Laura G. Singleton Harvard Business Press (2007) I recently re-read In Their Time, co-authored by Anthony Mayo and Nitin Nohria, in combination with this book whose subtitle correctly indicates what Mayo, Nohria, and Laura Singleton set out to [.].

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition Steven J. Spear McGraw-Hill (2009) The power of causal mechanisms that can drive a continuously self-improving system Clayton Christensen’s high praise of Steven Spear and this book is well-deserved. Do not be misled by its subtitle, “How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence [.].

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Squirrel Inc.: A Fable of Leadership through Storytelling Stephen Denning Josey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2004) Nuts R Us Think about it. Who are among the greatest storytellers throughout history? My own list includes Homer, Plato, Chaucer, Aesop, Jesus, Dante, Boccaccio, the Brothers Grimm, Confucius, Abraham Lincoln, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), Joel Chandler [.].

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tony Schwartz for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * More than 100 studies have now found that the most [.].

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Breaking Away: How Great Leaders Create Innovation That Drives Sustainable Growth – and Why Others Fail Jane Stevenson and Bilal Kaafarani McGraw-Hill (2011) How and why to create a “magic mix” of innovation leadership with innovation processes Year after year, annual lists of the most highly creative organizations include “the usual suspects”: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, [.].

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

In his own words…. I’ve had a long career as a journalist and author. Lately, I’ve added a new hat: I’ve joined VSA Partners as its Editorial Director. The plan is to marry business to big-think journalism in a way that hopefully helps both prosper. The first example of that is the book commissioned by IBM and co-authored by me, Steve Hamm [.].

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an especially interesting article written by Robert H. Frank that was featured in The New York Times (Sunday, September 18, 2011). To read the complete article, please click here. * * * Since Darwin, the pioneering naturalist, never thought of himself as an economist, the question seems absurd. Yet his [.].

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

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. Being a high-achiever can be rewarding, but many smart, ambitious professionals are still less satisfied than they should be. This is because many of the behaviors that help [.].

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Andrew M. Thompson, co-founder and C.E.O. of Proteus, a biomedical company, says people shouldn’t try to concoct motivations for another’s [.].

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