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FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Here is an article written by John Baldoni for BNET (February 17, 2011), The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * When change initiatives fail, the culprit is often a lack [.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2011

One of the most upsetting articles I have read in recent years was written by Charles M. Blow and appears in the Saturday, February 19, 2011, edition of The New York Times. Whatever (if any) bias you may ascribe to Blow and/or to the Times, it should be noted that most of the information referred [.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Perhaps rightfully so, we will never escape the horrible images created by the Nazi Holocaust. We should not forget. My favorite book about the subject was a chiller – Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah (Vintage, 1996). You can read my comments about that book on this site from a [.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription, to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Necessity is the mother of invention. When times or resources are tight, people usually figure out how to make due: they create work-arounds, devise new [.].

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I recently presented my synopsis of Inspired Philanthropy: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Giving Plan and Leaving a Legacy (Third Edition) by Tracy Gary, for The Dallas Foundation, a nonprofit in Dallas. (The Dallas Foundation, Here for Good. – Simple, wonderful line).

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

After having read and reviewed so many business books, I now share brief comments about what I consider to be the 25 most valuable business insights and the books in which they are either introduced or (one man’s opinion) best explained. Here are second five: 6. Customer Evangelism: Satisfaction is determined per transaction; loyalty is [.].

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Experiential Marketing: How to Get Customers to Sense, Feel, Think, Act, and Relate to Your Company and Brands Bernd H. Schmitt Free Press (1999) In an earlier book, Marketing Aesthetics (1997), co-authored with Alex Simonson, Schmitt argues that “most of marketing is limited because of its focus on features and benefits.&# In Experiential Marketing, he [.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

In the book The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm by Tom Kelley, we find this simple suggestion: Observe real people in real life situations to find out what makes them tick… This is step # 2 in the IDEO five step methodology: • The IDEO five step methodology… [.].

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

After having read and reviewed so many business books, I now share brief comments about what I consider to be the 25 most valuable business insights and identify the books in which they are either introduced or (one man’s opinion) best explained. Here are the first five: Analytics: With rare exception, you cannot manage what [.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Kotter 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. * * * Picture this: you’re in the middle of presenting [.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Here’s a title that I might, or might not, read. I’m just not sure. The book is Eat People And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs, and Andy Kessler is trying to make sense of this current employment climate even as he argues for bold entrepreneurship. On the Amazon page, we read this: The era [.].

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FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Stephen Greer for the Harvard Business Review blog (February 18, 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. * * * In today’s economy, where the [.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Here is an excerpt from a profile of Linda Singh (Senior Executive, Health & Public Service, Accenture) written by Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, 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 [.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Here is an excerpt from a profile of Katherine LaVelle (Accenture) written by Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, 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.” To [.].

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * It can be incredibly frustrating when a co-worker agrees with a plan of action, only to go off and do his own thing. [.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

In Chapter 7 of Eat People…and Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs published by Portfolio/Penguin Group (2011), Andy Kessler explains the book’s title this way: He has concluded that “the best way to leverage Abundance and Scale and to create Productivity is to get rid of people…Now I’m not suggesting we actually eat anyone…But we [.].

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Here is an article written by Mike Prokopeak for Talent Management magazine’s “Talent Management Perspectives” series. To 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. * * * Work-life balance is a myth. Even if employers [.].

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Here is the latest post by Joseph A. Maciariello featured in the Joe’s Journal series at the Drucker Ezechange (DX) sponsored by the Drucker Institute. The Drucker Exchange (the DX) is a platform for bettering society through effective management and responsible leadership. It is produced by the Drucker Institute, a think tank and action tank [.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

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 Sharon Napier, president and C.E.O. of Partners + Napier, an ad agency based in Rochester. She says basketball taught [.].

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

In his book Eight Steps Ahead: What Separates Business Visionaries from the Rest of Us, published by Portfolio/Penguin (2011), Erik Calonius reveals what makes visionaries tick and how they develop their extraordinary powers. We learn, for example, • How Steve Jobs used intuition to guide him from the Apple I to the Mac, and on [.].

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription, to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Good bosses strike a careful balance between telling people what to do and empowering them to do things on their own. Struggling with this balancing [.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Here is an excerpt of an interview of Michael Lewis by Dave Weich (in 2006) for the Powell’s Books website. To read the complete interview and interviews of other prominent authors, please click here. Since this interview was conducted, Lewis has published another bestseller, The Big Short. * * * In his debut, Liar’s Poker, [.].

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FEBRUARY 21, 2011

In an article that appeared in Harvard Business Review (January 2006), Thomas H. Davenport explains how to become an analytics competitor: champion analytics from the top, create a single analytics initiative, focus on your analytics efforts, establish an analytics culture, hire the right people, and use the right technology (ies). He later co-authored Competing on [.].

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FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Here is an article written by John Baldoni for BNET (February 17, 2011) , The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * When change initiatives fail, the culprit is often a [.].

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FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Here is an excerpt from a profile of Arlene Isaacs-Lowe (Senior Vice President, Commercial Group, Moody’s Investors Service) written by Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, 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 [.].

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FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jodi Glickman for the Harvard Business Review blog (February 14, 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. * * * For the 8 million plus [.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Here is an excerpt of an interview of Temple Grandin by Jill Owens for the Powell’s Books website. To read the complete interview and interviews of other prominent authors, please click here. * * * Temple Grandin has had a remarkable life, and the more you read of her work, the more you realize [.].

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FEBRUARY 20, 2011

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 Laura Ching, co-founder and chief merchandising officer of TinyPrints.com, an online card and stationery company. While other companies often save [.].

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FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The title of this post is one of the 52 “truths for winning at business” that Alan M. Webber discusses in Rules of Thumb, published by HarperCollins (2009). Here is a composite of brief excerpts from the book. * * * So what do American voters want? I’d start with the most fundamental of all [.].

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FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Thanks to McKinsey & Company and its Quarterly, those of us who admire Dan Ariley and his work have access to an especially enlightening interview (February 2011). To see it, please click here. * * * The behavioral economist explains why executives need to recognize—and embrace—the irrational forces that affect themselves and their employees.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2011

HBR’s 10 Must Reads: Essentials Various Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until 2006. Remarkably, none seems dated; on the contrary, if anything, all seem more relevant now [.

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