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NOVEMBER 29, 2015

As CEO of POSSIBLE, Shane Atchison leads the the digital agency’s long-term strategic vision of working with leading financial service organizations, consumer brands, start-ups, nonprofits, and community-based organizations, helping each realize the potential of the Internet and its impact on their business.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Dick and Emily Axelrod come from a long line of entrepreneurs. Donnelley and Sons Richard Axelrod and Emily Axelrod: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris Terms of Engagement Terms of Engagement: New Ways of Leading and Changing Organizations The Axelrod Group the Conference Model® Weyerhauser'

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FEBRUARY 17, 2015

In this terrific article, Why Engagement Happens In Employees’s Hearts, Not Their Minds: Winning Your Employees Over To Stick With The Company Long Term Involves An Array Of Factors—But First Among Those Is Love by Mark Crowley, we learn again that […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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MARCH 16, 2012

Clients have gotten nervous, and I suspect that Goldman Sachs has some pretty serious, long-term client reassurance work to do. (If The open letter from Greg Smith, Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs, has generated so much interesting, important, and provocative discussion. If you haven’t [.].

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MARCH 23, 2015

——————- There are books that provide just the right turn of phrase that it becomes part of our long-term understanding. It’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around, encouraging young things to grow. I think of Multipliers: How to Make Everyone Smarter […].

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FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Dick and Emily Axelrod come from a long line of entrepreneurs. So it was no surprise when in 1981 Dick left General Foods to form The Axelrod Group. At the time Emily was studying to get her second masters degree, in Social Work. At the same time as Dick was leaving General Foods, his friend […].

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APRIL 16, 2012

…innovation is the only sustainable strategy for creating long-term value. . …there’s not one company in a hundred that has made innovation everyone’s job, every day. ?In In most organizations, innovation still happens “despite the system” rather than because of it.?…innovation

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FEBRUARY 24, 2012

During 1993-96 he was on long-term leave from UCLA, [.]. He worked as a systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratories and served on the faculty of the Harvard Business School. He joined the UCLA faculty in 1976.

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OCTOBER 2, 2011

The Disney Way: Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company William Capodagli and Lynn Jackson McGraw Hill, Second Edition (2006) The ROI of “Magic” According to William Capodagli and Lynn Jackson, “This book tells the inside story of just how Disney’s success was achieved — not by epiphanic flashes of creative insight (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 27, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World Iain McGilchrist Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes Maria Konnikova The Fourth Great Awakening & the Future of Egalitarianism Robert [.].

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APRIL 5, 2011

Here are brief excerpts from two articles featured by McKinsey & Company. I suggest you read them in the order in which they appear here, then click where indicated to read each in its entirety. I presume to suggest, further, that you register to receive email updates on other resources that are also available at [.].

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JANUARY 20, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS A Technique for Producing Ideas: The Simple, Five-Step Formula Anyone Can Use to Be More Creative in Business and in Life! James Webb Young HBR Guide to Better Business Writing Bryan A. Garner Know What You [.].

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APRIL 24, 2012

You’ve got skills. Roy Miller (Tom Cruise) to June Havens (Cameron Diaz), Knight and Day ————— James Surowiecki has one of his really good and important essays up at the New Yorker. This essay, No End in Sight, holds out little optimism for a quick lowering of the jobless rate. And he includes some real [.].

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MARCH 10, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: REVIEWS Innovation as Usual: How to Help Your People Bring Great Ideas to Life Paddy Miller and Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg Finding Keepers: The Monster Guide to Hiring and Holding the World’s Best Employees Steve Pogorzelski and Jesse Harriott [.].

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MAY 1, 2012

The Ikea Edge: Building Global Growth and Social Good at the World’s Most Iconic Home Store Anders Dahlvig McGraw-Hill (2012) Outstanding corporate citizenship and outstanding financial performance are NOT mutually-exclusive What’s in a name?

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JULY 19, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Justin Menkes for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * A chief executive had a dilemma. After working in a fast-growing company as COO, he [.].

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JULY 6, 2011

Doing Both: Capturing Today’s Profit and Driving Tomorrow’s Growth Inder Sidhu FT Press/Pearson Organizational transformation is not — repeat not – a zero-sum game One of the most self-defeating mindsets is suggested by the admonition, “You can’t have your cake and eat it too.&#

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

A key value driver (KVD) is any variable that drives value for shareholders. But few firms can identify their KVDs and thus use them for forecasting and improvement. Identifying your KVDs requires a deep understanding of your business and much trial and error. Often, value drivers are combinations of variables.

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AUGUST 6, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an interview of Richard Rumelt co-conducted by Dan P. Lovallo and Lenny T. Mendonca and featured by McKinzey & Company’s McKinsey Quarterly (November 2007).

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com Richard L. Brandt Penguin/Portfolio (2011) “Gradatim Ferociter” (“Step by Step, Courageously”) This is not a comprehensive biography such as the one of Steve Jobs written by Walter Isaacson.

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MARCH 7, 2011

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do 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 [.].

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JUNE 3, 2011

Here is the first portion of an article featured by Talent Management magazine. To see the list of 48 companies, 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. * * * The National Business Group on [.].

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MARCH 8, 2011

Here is an excerpt from a profile of Linda Rappaport (Partner, Shearman & Sterling) 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.

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MAY 6, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Heike Bruch and Jochen I. Menges for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a free subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * Faced with intense market pressures, [.].

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APRIL 30, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Dave Logan for CBS MoneyWatch, the CBS Interactive Business Network.

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