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NOVEMBER 23, 2013

hancethe ABC Ariston Anderson CBS CNN Evernote Facebook Forbes Fortune Fox NBC New York Times Bestsellers List Outside The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro [comma] Learning Anything [comma] and Living the Good Life The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5 [comma] Live Anywhere [comma] and Join the New Rich (Expanded and Updated) The Economist (..)

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JUNE 21, 2014

As a disclaimer, I do not like Bill O’Reilly, nor his network, Fox News. You might, and that is just fine with me. I chose to become angry at his interview with President Obama before the Super Bowl, where he demonstrated poor questioning skills, poor probing skills, and abysmal listening skills. He was obviously […].

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MARCH 24, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Brad Power for the Harvard Business Review blog (March 7, 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. * * * When they set out to [.].

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FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Alexandra Samuel 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. * * * It’s still early in 2012, and from what I see on [.].

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JANUARY 8, 2013

On the one hand, we need proven tools that can help people focus their energies strategically and tactically without letting anything fall through the cracks. On the other, we need to create work environments and skills that will keep the most invested people from burning out due to stress. I don’t want to waste time [.].

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MAY 6, 2013

When you have a serious, a big, an important decision to make, it is probably a big mistake to “follow your gut.” Here’s what the Heath brothers say about “following our gut” – Our guts are full of questionable advice. Certainly no one has ever thoughtfully plotted out a meal plan and concluded, “I gotta [.]. Randy''s blog entries'

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APRIL 9, 2011

As Edward M. Hallowell explains in his most recent book, Shine: Using Brain Science to Get the Best from Your People, published by Harvard Business Review Press (2011), “Many people need help in getting rid of the obstacles in their way. In the workplace, this is the challenge that managers face: to help people overcome [.].

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

To make something happen, to make a company successful, you need certain elements to be in place. Regardless of the kind of business or enterprise or movement you are involved in. I just finished reading Martin Luther King Jr., Homosexuality and the Early Gay Rights Movement: Keeping the Dream Straight? by Michael G. Long (Afterword […].

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DECEMBER 21, 2014

Succession: Mastering the Make-or-Break Process of Leadership Transition Noel M.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2013

In one of her classic works, Creativity In Context: Update To The Social Psychology of Creativity (2006), Teresa Amabile suggests that creativity is influenced by four separate components: domain-relevant skills, creativity-relevant processes, task motivation, and the surrounding social environment.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions Phil Rosenzweig PublicAffairs (2014) Why understanding the decision making process as well as the roles of action and analysis “can improve the odds of success” As I began to read this book, I was again reminded of passages in two others in which their authors address […].

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Last Friday, I presented my synopsis of the business book classic, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt & Jeff Cox. It is a genuine multi-year best seller, and now I know why. It is an incredibly useful, helpful, practical book. Written in fable form, it is set in a factory, but, [.].

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AUGUST 10, 2013

He is also the author of Global Dexterity: How to Adapt Behavior Across Cultures Without Losing Yourself in the Process, published by Harvard Business Review Press in March, 2013. Andy Molinsky is an associate professor at Brandeis University’s International Business School, with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology.

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MARCH 11, 2015

Sunstein and Reid Hastie Harvard Business Review Press 2014) How to separate, implement, and optimize the divergent and convergent stages of every problem-solving process As I began to read this book, I was reminded of a passage in one of Tom Davenport’s recent books, Judgment […].

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Uncategorized Ask questions that require higher-level thinking: The goal is to create insight Avoid questions that begin with “why”: a question that begins with the word “why” is perceived as judgmental Chief Learning Officer magazine Chip Bell Dominance: Think before you ask Managers as Mentors Marshall Goldsmith on "The Power of Asking the Right (..)

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MAY 15, 2013

Bob''s blog entries a queue for achieving and then sustaining organizational excellence Bibliomotion Brian Klapper frontliners Q-Loop: “a process that forms a complete circle – from ideation to complete implementation.

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AUGUST 9, 2013

Norton & Company (2013) Here is a process of natural selection that could (perhaps) help to achieve metacognition With regard to the title, Daniel Dennett observes, “Intuition pumps have been a dominant force in philosophy for centuries. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking Daniel C. Dennett W.W. Norton & Company'

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OCTOBER 29, 2013

Here is an excerpt from a blog post by Tim Ferriss who explains that increasing reading speed is a process of controlling fine motor movement—period. To read the complete article, please click here. Photo: Dustin Diaz * * * How much more could you get done if you completed all of your required reading in […].

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

The Power of LEO: The Revolutionary Process for Achieving Extraordinary Results Subir Chowdbury McGraw-Hill (2012) Still another “revolutionary process” to achieve “extraordinary results Subir Chowdhury and other authors of recently published business books are to be commended for having the courage to contribute additions to the (..)

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NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Innovation: The process of translating an idea or invention into a good or service that creates value or for which customers will pay. To be called an innovation, an idea must be replicable at an economical cost and must satisfy a specific need. From BusinessDictionary.com Read this article, What is Innovation? Randy''s blog entries'

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

He is brought in to fix some small problems, some process problems, and sometimes, some big problems. When the problem has a process fix, it is a matter of: take these steps, implement this process. Maybe you need an encounter with a well-placed two-by-four… I was talking to a top-level business consultant.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2013

Bob''s blog entries "neuroplasticity": the processes by which the brainmodifies its function in response to changes in internal and external environments Alzheimer''s Disease Research Center Demystifying Psychiatry: A Resource for Patients and Families Department of Psychiatry at Washington University in St.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Bob''s blog entries “The Job Generation Process” David Birch David Butler Design to Grow: How Coca-Cola Learned to Combine Scale and Agility (and How You Can Too) George Mason University Linda Tischler MIT Program on Neighborhood and Regional Change Why Do Gazelles Thrive in the Best of All Business Worlds?

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MAY 1, 2014

You can use lots of fancy vocabulary for this process, […]. As close as I can tell, business success (ok – any kind of success) requires these two steps. Decide what to do. And then, do it well. Randy''s blog entries'

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Planning Books Blog Process 135

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MAY 26, 2012

Sterner New World Library (2012) How and why “focusing on and finding joy in the process of achieving instead of [merely] having a goal…is magical and incredibly empowering” For almost three decades, K. The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life Thomas M.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

This process has a number of different names/descriptives — Strategic Planning; Yearly Goal Setting – but the process is simple. Eisenhower —————– It’s that time of year. Leadership teams in organizations across the land are beginning to work on their plan for next year. It sort of [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Two of the key ways that we can control and improve the process are to pay special attention to the way we enter information into our memory—encoding—and the way we pull it out—retrieval. and Multitasking is the enemy of a focused attentional system. Increasingly, we demand that our attentional system try to focus on several […].

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OCTOBER 22, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Albert Einstein Brooke Manville FT Press/Pearson great leaders still don''t automatically take "yes" or "no" for an answer How to diagnose/evaluate/and improve strategic decision-making processes Judgment Calls Michael A.

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Consensus Review Books Blog 89

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Achieving happiness through meaningful connections Bruce Poon Tip BusinessPlus Company-building process of entrepreneurship Creating positive impact in the world Creating solid innovation through social media His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

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MAY 26, 2016

One specific finding: Actions by University administrators directly discouraged some complainants from reporting or participating in student conduct processes and in one instance constituted retaliation against a complainant for reporting sexual assault.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Bibliomotion create Empowering with permission -- but without action Kill the Company: End the Status Quo [comma] Start an Innovation Revolution Lack of (clear) vision Leaders focused on process instead of people Lisa Bodell Lisa Bodell on "The Most Lethal Culture Killers" Management acts as judge [comma] not jury: If the purpose (..)

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Proposal Open-book Innovation Blog 89

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. The only job security is found in your own ability to keep learning! Peter Drucker Through learning, we re-create ourselves. Peter Senge What am I? Just a teacher […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Taylor Swift; From Taylor Swift on 1989, Spotify, Her Next Tour and Female Role Models When optimism turns to pessimism during the creative process, you are in a serious, dangerous rut. Everybody’s complaining about how music sales are shrinking, but nobody’s changing the way they’re doing things. Randy''s blog entries'

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Taylorism Taylor Blog Creativity 110

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MAY 4, 2013

Bain & Company Ceramics Process Systems Corporation Clayton Christensen CPS Technologies Corporation Curtis W. Here is a brief excerpt from an interview conducted by Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine, published by Bain & Company. To read the complete interview, check out other resources, learn [.].

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Christensen Kleiner Disruptive Innovation Health Care 90

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

There are two clear parts to this process. When you get up to speak, you have just a few seconds to “hook,” your audience. And, then, assuming you have them “hooked,” you have to “keep them on the line,” and then “reel them in.” Part 1 (Aristotle called this “Invention”) – have something valuable to […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win Steven Gary Blank Quad/Graphics (Third Edition, 2007) Here is “a radical reexamination of the entire new product introduction process”…and almost everything that precedes it The review that follows is of the Third Edition, published in 2007.

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JUNE 26, 2011

Newly Revised and Updated) Jeff Thull John Wiley & Sons (2004/2010) Complex sales are those which involve a lengthy process of cultivation and solicitation, a “circle of influence&# within which the purchase or pass decision is made, a product or service [.].

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