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Mario Cuomo, and the Challenge of Rhetorical Success – (Insight from James Fallows)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Of course, it wasn’t funny at all. There’s a scene in Good Morning Vietnam where an officer is trying to explain to Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams) why he, Cronauer, isn’t actually funny. The officer quotes from what he has “studied” about comedy, showing Cronauer what is funny. Randy''s blog entries'

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Alan Gregerman on “Rethinking Employee Engagement”

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As I began to read Alan Gregerman’s recently published book, The Necessity of Strangers: The Intriguing Truth About Insight, Innovation, and Success, I was again reminded of how deceptively complicated the word “stranger” is. It could refer to someone we have never heard of, of course, but it could also refer to someone we have […].

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Leigh Thompson: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

She directs the highly successful Kellogg executive course, Leading High Impact Teams, and the Kellogg Team and Group Research Center. She also co-directs the Negotiation Strategies for Managers course. Jay Gerber Professor of Dispute Resolution & Organizations in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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Do You Allow e-Mail to Control Your Day?

First Friday Book Synopsis

In the writing skills course that we teach at Creative Communication Network, entitled Write Your Way to Success, we discuss how to handle e-Mails. Most of our participants claim they write e-Mails as more than 85% of the type of writing they do on the job. Obviously, writing e-Mails is often responding to other e-Mails.

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Boris Groysberg: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Currently, he teaches courses on talent management and leadership in the school’s MBA and Executive Education programs. Boris Groysberg is a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at the Harvard Business School. How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power their Organizations with Michael Slind Jeffrey T.

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Wealth Matters: A book review by Bob Morris

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” Henry Ford Of course wealth matters. , Makeover Edition Muzafer Najf and Chris J. Snook No Limit Publishing (2011) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Unlike the word “abundance” that can have negative as well as positive connotations (e.g. credit card debt [.].

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Tom Butler-Bowdon: A second interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

A graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of Sydney, Tom Butler-Bowdon was working as a political advisor in Australia when, at 25, he read his first personal development book, Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Captivated by that and by titles by the likes of Anthony Robbins and [.].