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September 11, 2001: Where were you?

Ron Edmondson

Where were you when you first heard of the attacks on the twin towers on 9/11/2001? Where were you? Obviously it’s on all our minds this weekend what took place 10 years ago. It changed so much of who we are as a nation and a people. Living in a military town, I’ve witnessed the sacrifice of so many because of that day.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001. Three more women made the top 20: Lynda Gratton of London Business School (14); Sylvia-Ann Hewlett (15); and Harvard’s Amy Edmondson (16). Drucker was writing about knowledge workers in the late 1960s.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business Review

For my money, “What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions” (2001), which Garvin wrote with Michael Roberto, is the best piece on organizational decision making in HBR’s archive. The central idea is that decision making is a process, not an event. But the main contribution of “Is Yours a Learning Organization?