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The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success

Strategy Driven

The Petrified Forest , starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Henry Fonda. Though I wrote all my books on computers, I wrote the modern technology chapters on the typewriter, to make points to myself that the readers could never have grasped. Requiem for a Heavyweight , the premiere of “Playhouse 90.”

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Your Nice Boss May Be Killing Your Career

Harvard Business Review

Chris spent years working for a supportive, encouraging manager at a major technology company headquartered in Silicon Valley. In fact, his boss raved about him. His manager gave him top ratings in his performance evaluations, space to do his work, and had never been controlling. He was, according to Chris, terribly, unswervingly nice.

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The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success

Strategy Driven

The Petrified Forest , starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Henry Fonda. Though I wrote all my books on computers, I wrote the modern technology chapters on the typewriter, to make points to myself that the readers could never have grasped. Requiem for a Heavyweight , the premiere of Playhouse 90.

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What the Death of Topsy Tells Us About Today’s Social Web

Harvard Business Review

Hasty obituaries for Topsy described it as an analytics tool, speculating on whether and how its functionality has been absorbed into Apple’s search technology.