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Mindfulness Can Improve Strategy, Too

Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review contributors Daniel Goleman and Bill George have described mindfulness as a means to listen more deeply and guide actions through clear intention rather than emotional whims or reactive patterns. This creates space to deliberately choose how to speak and act. ”—and taking time to contemplate.

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New Books from HBR Press for August

Harvard Business Review

No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up) — your world is awash with data. The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business.

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Five Good Reasons to Champion Auto-Analytics in Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

The recent boom in auto-analytics, or "self-tracking," or "self quantification" has been playing out mostly as a consumer trend — as something we do during our leisure time to become more deliberate about personal fitness, finances, or diet. See here for an excellent list of 500 auto-analytic tools.)