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Preparing for a new era of work

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article featured in The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, in which Susan Lund, James Manyika, and Sree Ramaswamy [.].

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 1/28/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK/CD REVIEWS Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance Jason Selk The Art of Doing: How Superachievers Do What They Do and How They Do It So Well Camille Sweeney and Josh Gosfield Leadership: [.].

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Morning Advantage: How Bosses Do Harm

Harvard Business Review

As Kannan Ramaswamy and Bill Youngdahl point out in this excellent Thunderbird research blog, they chuckle along with everyone else when they read Dilbert cartoons about the Pointy-Haired Boss. And 35% of respondents in a broader study of all high-performing companies said the same thing. How does that happen?

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Doing Both: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Doing Both: Capturing Today’s Profit and Driving Tomorrow’s Growth Inder Sidhu FT Press/Pearson Organizational transformation is not — repeat not – a zero-sum game One of the most self-defeating mindsets is suggested by the admonition, “You can’t have your cake and eat it too.&#

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Trust, Transparency and Value — How Google Is Working to Improve Online Advertising for Everyone - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM GOOGLE

Harvard Business Review

By Sridhar Ramaswamy, Senior Vice President of Ads & Commerce, Google. Many of the things we all enjoy — websites, blogs, social networks, apps and videos — are funded by ads. Digital advertising has played an important role in making the internet the free, open, vital place it is today.

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CEOs Should Activate Their Company's Stakeholders

Harvard Business Review

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Triggering this process of collective engagement — Venkat Ramaswamy and I call it co-creation — is what is missing in the agenda of many CEOs today (to say nothing of our political leaders).

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