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Is sport such a poor metaphor for management?
February 23, 2017These days, when I sit down to write a blog post, there are two somewhat surprising threads running simultaneously through my...
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Can sports teach us anything worthwhile about business?
February 10, 2017Yesterday, I was reflecting a bit on how surprising one’s life can be. For example, if anyone had asked...
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Practice, spontaneity, and happenstance
August 19, 2016Writing the past few weeks about Martin Luther King and Winston Churchill caused me to think of something one...
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The greatest responsibility of managers
November 27, 2015In the last entry, I focused in part on what I see as the responsibility of every leader, at any...
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Why we have trouble doing nothing
August 20, 2015When I began perusing the research paper “Learning by Thinking: Overcoming the Bias for Action through Reflection”, one of...
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Engagement changes everything
February 19, 2015Wherever I have worked or consulted in organizations, I have made something of a habit of telling everyone in...
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So, what can a middle manager do to be happier?
December 12, 2014As a continuation of our theme from last week, I decided to give some of my own views on...
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Are there fundamental differences between leaders and managers?
June 7, 2013For the past two weeks, I have been teaching masters students in business administration programs, last week in...
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Designing better bosses for a new generation
May 21, 2012For the past few weeks, we have been discussing Google’s Project Oxygen, their plan to define the attributes of...
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Life these days
June 12, 2011Since I am in the mist of a busy week in the US, with little time to seat for...