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Robert Steven Kaplan: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Robert Steven Kaplan is the Martin Marshall Professor of Management Practice and Senior Associate Dean at Harvard Business School. He is also and co-chairman of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, a global venture philanthropy firm. with […].

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Leading Thoughts for March 18, 2021

Leading Blog

Kaplan on the dangers of peace: “Avoiding tragedy requires a sense of it, which in turn requires a sense of history. We project onto others traits that are in fact true of ourselves—and then attack them! I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. We deny the truth to ourselves.

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Leading Thoughts for October 29, 2020

Leading Blog

Modern architecture, modern music, modern science—all these have defined themselves not so much out of the past, indeed scarcely against the past, but detached from it in a new, autonomous cultural space, The modern mind grew indifferent to history, for history, conceived as a continuous nourishing tradition, became useless to its projects.”.

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How to Avoid the 5 Career Derailers

Leading Blog

Cast relates a conversation he had with Stuart Kaplan, the director of leadership recruiting at Google to make this point: As you progress [in your career], your relationship with others is more important than your knowledge of and relationship with data. In short, they lack interpersonal skills. Having the Right Stuff.

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Are You Taking Care of Busyness and Working Overtime?

The Practical Leader

“The Acceleration Trap” is a major problem I’ve cited often from a classic series of Harvard Business Review articles by Heike Bruch, professor of leadership at the University of St. Time to Assess How Your Team Uses Time We often work with leadership teams on their use of individual and collective time.

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A Biologist, Computer Scientist & Historian walk into a.

Mills Scofield

Andrew Kaplan eloquently sums this up in his post below he wrote right before graduation. When I think about my time at Brown, I think about one of my housemates working on a computer science project, describing the mystery of the deep web and the power of torrent — and blowing my mind in the process.

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A Biologist, Computer Scientist & Historian walk into a.

Mills Scofield

Andrew Kaplan eloquently sums this up in his post below he wrote right before graduation. When I think about my time at Brown, I think about one of my housemates working on a computer science project, describing the mystery of the deep web and the power of torrent — and blowing my mind in the process.

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