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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

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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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

John Bernard is the author of Business at the Speed of NOW, published by John Wiley & Sons in December of 2011. He’s a top-rated speaker for the Conference Board, discussion leader on the Harvard Business Review blog, and his monthly newspaper column is syndicated to 41 Business Journals across the U.S. For 30 years [.].

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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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AUGUST 18, 2011

The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi Harvard Business Review Press (2011) The strategic power of coherence According to Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi in the first chapter, to achieve and then sustain a competitive advantage, a company “must be resolutely focused and clear-minded (..)

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Michelli McGraw-Hill (2011) Happiness should – and CAN – be an experience shared by everyone involved I have read and reviewed all of Joseph A. The Zappos Experience: 5 Principles to Inspire, Engage, and WOW Joseph A. Michelli’s previous books and consider each a unique and brilliant achievement.

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MARCH 24, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Brad Power for the Harvard Business Review blog (March 7, 2011). 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. * * * When they set out to [.].

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JULY 20, 2011

Here is an NPR article written by Yuki Noguchi and featuredby online (July 19, 2011). When I win a lottery, my first philanthropic contributions will be to them…and will be generous. Click here to • Listen [.].

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JUNE 10, 2011

WordPress Plugin Development Essentials Brian Bondari and Everett Griffiths Packt Publishing (2011) A Practical, hands-on tutorial for creating your own plugins for a WordPress website As is also true of other Packt publications, this book has prepared me well to work with technical and graphics specialists whom I have retained to develop for me a (..)

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AUGUST 6, 2011

Here is an excerot from an article written by Alaina Love and featured by the BloombergBusinessweek website (August 6, 2011) To check out all the resources, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * Completing ethics training is just the beginning of an introspective process U.S.

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MARCH 24, 2011

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business Gino Wickman Virtual CEO (2011) Without traction, no individual or organization accomplishes anything. As I began to read this book, I was reminded of a book co-authored by Chip and Dan Heath in which they explain why a few ideas “stick&# but most don’t. It can also be [.].

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MAY 16, 2011

I highly recommend the current issue of The New Yorker (May 16, 2011) that includes Malcolm Gladwell’s article, “Creation Myth,” his latest contribution to the “Annals of Business” series. Gladwell is a brilliant journalist but hardly an original business thinker.

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