Building Personal Strength

JUNE 29, 2012

Evidence that I'm an extreme basketball fan is that I watched the 2012 NBA Draft on ESPN, instead of finding some other way to enjoy myself. Stung by having to deal with talented players whose immature behavior created problems for the team, they traded away problem players like Gilbert Arenas, Andray Blatche, Nick Young and JaVale McGee.

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Management Craft

JULY 27, 2012

The Very Best from the Management Craft Blog 2004-2012. And since I am digressing, I highly - HIGHLY - recommend this TED talk from Elizabeth Gilbert (author of the mega best-seller Eat, Pray Love ). BTW #2: Once I noticed the underlying theme of personal reinvention, the title for the collection popped right into my head.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

I saw the power of language come to life earlier this summer when I made an eye-opening visit to a day-long orientation held every six weeks or so for new employees of Quicken Loans, the online mortgage lender based in Detroit and owned by high-profile billionaire Dan Gilbert.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013. It sold the site to Shutterfly as part of its bankruptcy plan for less than $25 million in April 2012. People went from printing pictures to sharing them online.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

2012 has not gotten off to a great start for Eastman Kodak. Innosight director Clark Gilbert's doctoral research on this topic (with a particular focus on the newspaper industry's response to disruptive change), is a very worthwhile read on this topic. Like many easy narratives, this one is not quite right. This is hard stuff.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2014

For a study entitled "The Language that Gets People to Give," Georgia Tech assistant professor Eric Gilbert and doctoral candidate Tanushree Mitra designed software to scrape the text from the thousands of Kickstarter projects launched since June 2012. The most powerful phrase (by a wide margin): “Project will be.”

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