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We Have Cancelled the February First Friday Book Synopsis (February 4, 2011)

First Friday Book Synopsis

For those who planned to attend this Friday’s First Friday Book Synopsis (February 4, 2011), we have cancelled the event. The weather and road conditions looked just a little too uncertain. We will move the books for February forward, and present these two books in March.

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The McKinsey Quarterly: Top Ten Articles for Third Quarter, 2011

First Friday Book Synopsis

Once again and to its great credit, The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey and Company, has created online access the Top Ten articles for third quarter (2011) as selected by its readers. In case you missed them, you can now check them out and join the conversation. Here are brief descriptions [.].

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Hugh MacLeod’s Evil Plans: A book review by Bob Morris

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Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination Hugh MacLeod Portfolio/Pednguin Group (2011) “Evil” was the word the Anglo-Saxons used where we would use bad, cruel, unskillful, defective (adj.), or harm, crime, misfortune, and disease.

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How Sponsorship Can Help Senior Women Break the Marzipan Ceiling

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Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer (January 19, 2011), 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. Here is an excerpt from an article written by Melissa J.

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The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement: A book review by Bob Morris

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Franz McGraw-Hill (2011) How and why the Toyota Way principles can achieve excellence in every part of almost any organization all the time I have read and reviewed all of Jeffrey Liker’s previously published [.]. The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement: Linking Strategy and Operational Excellence to Achieve Superior Performance Jeffrey K.

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18 Minutes: A book review by Bob Morris

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18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done Peter Bregman Business Plus/Hatchette Book Group (2011) Do you need a FIND ME button for your life? Look no further. I have been following Peter Bregman’s HBR blog posts for several years and consider him one of the most thoughtful and most [.].

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The Coming Jobs War: A book review by Bob Morris

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The Coming Jobs War: What Every Leader Must Know About the Future of Job Creation Jim Clifton Gallup Press (2011) How and why entrepreneurs can – indeed must – win America’s “next everything war” The war to which the title of this book refers will never be declared officially but I am convinced that it [.].

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