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DECEMBER 27, 2011

Good Company: Business Success in the Worthiness Era Laurie Bassi, Ed Frauenheim, Dan McMurrer, with Larry Costello Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2011) How and why companies must prove worthy of consumers’ business, employees’ best efforts, and investors’ dollars What’s in a word?

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

The Technology Fast 500™ is an annual ranking by Deloitte of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. For the 14th consecutive year, there are more software companies on the Technology Fast [.].

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OCTOBER 1, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article featured by Bloomberg Businessweek online (October 3, 2011) in which Brad Stone points out that Jeff Bezos’ new tablet, the Kindle Fire, is cheap, pretty, and puts Amazon in perfect position to take a bite out of Apple—and every online transaction we make. To read the complete article, [.].

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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article featured by Bloomberg Businessweek online (October 3, 2011) in which Brad Stone points out that Jeff Bezos’ new tablet, the Kindle Fire, is cheap, pretty, and puts Amazon in perfect position to take a bite out of Apple—and every online transaction we make. To read the complete article, [.].

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MARCH 9, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Walter Kiechel for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Review’s Daily Alerts, please click here. * * * Like Satan in the book of Job, [.].

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JULY 20, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Mel Stark and Mark Royal for Talent Management magazine (5/10/2011). To check out all the resources and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and Chief Learning Officer magazines published by MedfiaTec, please click here. * * * Experts from Hay Group, which partnered with [.].

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APRIL 1, 2011

Ten timeless tests can help you kick the tires on your strategy, and kick up the level of strategic dialogue throughout your company. STRATEGY Have you tested your strategy lately? Click [.].

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MARCH 10, 2011

Here is a recent article in the “Industry News&# series posted online at Talent Management magazine’s website (February 14, 2011).

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JUNE 3, 2011

To see the list of 48 companies, check out all the resources, and sign up for a free subscription to the Talent Management and Chief Learning Officer magazines published by MedfiaTec, please click here. * * * The National Business Group on [.]. Here is the first portion of an article featured by Talent Management magazine.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an exceptionally informative interview of Edgar Schein by Art Kleiner and Rutger von Post for strategy+business magazine (January 2011) published by Booz & Company.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Here is an excerpt of an article co-authored by Ram Charan and Michael Sisk for strategy+business magazine (February 7, 2011), published by Booz & Company.

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MARCH 4, 2011

It is co-authored by Jeffrey Schwartz, Pablo Gaito, and Doug Lennick and featured by strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company (February 22, 2011/ Spring 2011 /Issue 62). Here is an excerpt from one of the most interesting articles I have read in several years.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2012

Jumping the S-Curve: How to Beat the Growth Cycle, Get on Top, and Stay There Paul Nunes and Tim Breene Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How companies can reach progressively high levels of achievement The title of this book refers to pattern of consistently elevating (“jumping”) a company to progressively high levels of achievement.

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MARCH 29, 2011

Today We Are Rich: Harnessing the Power of Total Confidence Tim Sanders Tyndale House Publishers (2011) A grandmother for all seasons In this his latest book, Tim Sanders creates a context, a frame-of-reference, for several concepts introduced in earlier works, notably in Saving the World at Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go [.].

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The Great Workplace: How to Build It, How to Keep It, and Why It Matters Michael Burchell and Jennifer Robin Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2011) This is a book I have eagerly awaited. Year after year, Fortune posts its annual list of the “1oo Best Companies to Work For.” I have never questioned the selections nor [.].

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AUGUST 27, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Finding & Keeping the Best People Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to recruit, hire, onboard, and retain the workers who possess the character, talent, and skills your company needs This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in HBR.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World’s Great Companies Jim Stengel Crown Business (2011) How and why “maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. They’re inseparable.” Jim Stengel begins the first chapter with two separate but related questions: “What makes a business grow beyond the competition?

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AUGUST 10, 2012

The article actually came out back in Spring, 2011. Companies have bought too fully into the “leave them alone” approach. (Thanks to Tom Pearce, from iLead, for putting me on to this. But, I suspect, we all have things to learn, to change, and then do). —————- Here’s the big mistake.

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JANUARY 12, 2012

Here is an excerpt from still another outstanding article written by Richard Dobbs, James Manyika, and Charles Roxburgh, featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly (September 2011), published by McKinsey & Company.

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AUGUST 1, 2011

Once again, McKinsey & Company’s Quarterly has made available an exceptionally valuable program to the general public: Experts discuss McKinsey’s research on “jobless recoveries” and ways to solve the longer-term US employment crisis (August 2011).

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MARCH 14, 2011

Here is an article co-authored by Vikram Malhotra and James Manyika for The McKinsey Quarterly website (March 2011), published by McKinsey & Company. To check out all the free resources and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * * As the US economy begins to recover, addressing some of the myths on [.].

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MARCH 24, 2011

Wikibrands: Reinventing Your Company in a Custiner-Driven Marketplace Sean Moffitt and Mike Dover McGraw-Hill (2011) How the new levers of brand development achieve customer participation What is the meaning of the noun wikibrand(s)?

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JANUARY 12, 2012

Capturing New Markets: How Smart Companies Create Opportunities Others Don’t Stephen Wunker McGraw-Hill (2011) How to locate, penetrate, and dominate in new markets or in new customer segments Opinions are divided (sometimes sharply divided) about where and how to generate new revenue sources when competing in a global economy such as the current one, (..)

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JANUARY 24, 2012

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.

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APRIL 20, 2011

The Corner Office: Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons from CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed Adam Bryant Times Books/Henry Holt & Company (2011) Dining on brain food at a “metaphysical table” with mostly CEOs, What we have in this volume is a “buffet&# of “nuggets&# from about 75 interviews of mostly CEOs that Adam [.].

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JULY 6, 2011

Aaker Jossey-Bass/John Wiley & Sons (2011) If your “brand” isn’t relevant, neither are you or your company Those who have read any of David Aaker’s previous books already know that he presents information, insights, and counsel that are anchored in specific real-world circumstances within a broad and deep [.].

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JANUARY 12, 2012

Here is an excerpt from still another outstanding article written by Richard Dobbs, James Manyika, and Charles Roxburgh, featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly (September 2011), published by McKinsey & Company.

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JANUARY 4, 2012

One on One: Behind the Scenes with the Greats in the Game John Feinstein Little, Brown & Company (2011) Memorable moments and unforgettable people during a ten-book journey…thus far…featured in an eleventh book Others have their reasons for holding this book in high regard. Here are three of mine.

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AUGUST 26, 2011

Here is an excerpt from another in a series of conversations sponsored by Booz & Company. In this instance, with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, co-authors of The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy, published by Harvard Business Review Press (2011).

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MARCH 5, 2011

Here is a terrific article written by John Horn for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, and featured online (March 2011). To read the complete article and check out the wealth of free resources as well as obtain subscription I formation, please click here. * * * War games can be a powerful [.].

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MAY 16, 2011

Inspire, Motivate, and Bring Out the Best in Your People Brian Tracy AMACOM (2011) “Why are some companies more successful and more profitable than others?&# Full Engagement!: That [.].

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

How NET PROMOTER Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World Fred Reichheld with Rob Markey Harvard Business Review Press (2011) Here is an open-source system whose “engine” can drive profitable growth This is a revised and expanded second edition of a book published in 2006. The Ultimate Question 2.0:

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JANUARY 12, 2012

Capturing New Markets: How Smart Companies Create Opportunities Others Don’t Stephen Wunker McGraw-Hill (2011) How to locate, penetrate, and dominate in new markets or in new customer segments Opinions are divided (sometimes sharply divided) about where and how to generate new revenue sources when competing in a global economy such as the current one, (..)

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MARCH 11, 2011

Coyne, featured by The McKinsey Quarterly website (March 2011). The magazine is published by McKinsey & Company. Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Kevin P. Coyne and Shawn T.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Companies Thrive Despite Them All Jim Collins and Morten T.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2011

Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Companies Thrive Despite Them All Jim Collins and Morten T.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Taylor for BNET (February 14, 2011), The CBS Interactive Business Network. Here is an article written by William C. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * Now that Valentine’s Day is but a distant memory, [.].

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