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First Friday Book Synopsis

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What You Do Actually Matters – Consider Nolan Ryan’s Leadership

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Texas Rangers just won their division, and are preparing for the playoffs. (Go, Rangers!). They also just set a season attendance record for the franchise. So, a lot of good things are going on with the Rangers. A key reason is the leadership of Nolan Ryan. On Fox Sports Southwest broadcasts of the Rangers’ [.].

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Management Tips from Harvard Business Review: A book review by Bob Morris

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Management Tips from Harvard Business Review Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) 150 “tips”…almost unlimited “icebergs” Here are 150 “Management Tips of the Day” that have been featured by the Harvard Business Review blog ([link] On average, each has a total word count of about 50 and is best viewed as a reminder rather [.].

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Robots, Automation, and don’t forget Software, May Be Coming After Your Job (Yes, Yours!) – Read And Ponder The Insight Of Farhad Manjoo

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The problem was not simply the loss of good jobs to workers in foreign nations but also automation… Remember bank tellers? Telephone operators? The fleets of airline workers behind counters who issued tickets? Service station attendants? These and millions of other jobs weren’t lost to globalization; they were lost to automation. American has lost at [.].

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This + That + Also This – Success Requires Not 1 Thing, But Many Things

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It is a very competitive world out there. Your job may be in jeopardy, because someone else wants your job, and is preparing right now to do your job better than you can do it. Especially if it a good job. (Those are increasingly scarce, it seems). So, you have to always keep getting [.].

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Is This Our Era: A Flurry Of Fluff Masking An Absence Of Substance? – (Insight From Richard Rumelt, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy)

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Are we living in the era of Fluff? — an era of Fluff in a time when Fluff simply won’t cut it? Of all the ideas in this terrific book, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard Rumelt, (my selection for the October 7 First Friday Book Synopsis), this one seemed [.].

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Does Your Company Have a Culture of Trust?

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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Dorie Clark 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. * * * Walking around Munich on a recent trip, I was impressed by [.].

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Voice of Experience: Monica McConville (Shearman & Sterling)

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Here is an excerpt from a profile of Monica McConville (Partner, Practice Leader, English Law Equity Capital Markets, Shearman & Sterling) 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 [.].

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