Sat.Dec 03, 2011

First Friday Book Synopsis

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The Rare Find: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Rare Find: Spotting Exceptional Talent Before Everyone Else George Anders Portfolio/Penguin (2011) How and why great talent “isn’t hard to find if you know how [and where] to look” As George Anders explains in the Introduction, he spent two and a half years conducting research to determine the answer to this question: “How and [.].

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Ruth J. Simmons (Brown University) in “The Corner Office”

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Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Ruth J. Simmons, president of Brown University for the last 11 years. She is is stepping down at the end [.].