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New Book: Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook

Eric Jacobson

I am a big fan of the series of Harvard Business Review (HBR)’s Handbooks , including the one for leaders and the one for family businesses. Newest in the series is the HBR Project Management Handbook. You will learn how to ensure that projects have a strong foundation and the importance of your role as a project sponsor.

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Create The Future And The Innovation Handbook

Eric Jacobson

March 10 brings the new book, Create The Future: Tactics For Disruptive Thinking, by J eremy Gutsche , CEO of Trend Hunter. Once you are primed for change, you can flip it over to read, The Innovation Handbook , and began the journey to finding your big idea.

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Managing Company Culture Anthropologically

Leading Blog

On the one hand, most CEOs agree with with the statement attributed to Peter Drucker: culture eats strategy for breakfast. His new book is Open Culture Handbook: Five Questions to Drive Engagement and Innovation (Amplify Publishing, Oct. B USINESSES are really bad at establishing an engaging culture.

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Evolve or Dissolve: Shaping Your Corporate Culture for a Remote Reality

Leading Blog

Adapting and reinforcing values could involve a collaborative approach to updating company handbooks, creating interactive learning modules, or holding workshops. It might be, for example, that the values for work-life integration are patterned after outmoded ways of working — that work happens at the office and life happens at home.

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AMA Handbook of Due Diligence

CEO Blog

Recently, I read a great book by William Crilly and Andrew Sherman called, The AMA Handbook of Due Diligence. I, personally, love thorough due diligence but lack the attention required to do it well myself so I like to surround myself with people who do it well. This is one of the reasons I joined Golden Seeds who are awesome at it.

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A Handbook For Making Change

Eric Jacobson

Stories from eBay President and CEO John Donahoe; Wells Fargo former CEO and Chairman Dick Kovacevich; Starbucks Chairman, President and CEO Howard Schultz; San Francisco Giants President and CEO Larry Baer; and Pinkberry CEO Ron Graves.

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Liz Ryan Reflects: A Decade Shaped by Human-Centric Revolution

HR Digest

As the founder and CEO of Human Workplace, Liz envisions a future where work is fluid, nimble, and built on trust. Two stories about breaking rules: – I worked with a CEO who was hiring a lot of people quickly. But this CEO did, and every candidate in that group who got a job offer accepted it. It’s easy to see why.

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