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The Power of Networks: How My Grandmother Introduced Dr. Bob to Bill W. and...
The power of your network isn’t just in its size. And it isn’t just in whom you know or in whom they know. The power of your network to change the world may come from just introducing two people in it...
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Broken Windows, Broken Businesses
“The bigger things may age you, but it’s the little things that make you old.” W. Town Andrews I remember a call from a friend of mine a few years ago who was working in a pharmaceutical plant that I...
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What’s the Difference Between “Excellent,”“Good,”“Fair,” and “Poor” in...
It depends on whom you ask. And that is why the common practice of assigning business values to projects using simple categories such as “Excellent,” “Good,” “Fair,” and “Poor” is misleading and...
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You Can’t Take Your Marbles With You When You Leave
This morning, I attended a terrific breakfast seminar delivered by Ernie Dianastasis and sponsored by theDelaware Emerging Technology Center. Ernie is Managing Director of CAI, a global information...
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Bring the Power of High-Frequency Trading Analytics to Your Project Portfolio...
In a previous blog post, Business At Microsecond Speeds – How Fast Can You Go?, I wrote about how businesses can make faster and more profitable decisions by using business analytics in the same way...
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Do Bad Managers Take More Risks Than Good Managers?
In a large study of mutual fund managers, researchers studied the relationship between a manager’s risk choices and their prior performance relative to their peers. They found that the relationship...
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“Work is a rubber ball”
“Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them – work, family, health, Friends and spirit and you’re keeping all of these in the Air. You will soon...
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The Dark Side of Friendly Business Negotiations
If negotiators are too friendly with each other, they’re more likely to misbehave, including lying or acting against the interests of their employers. That’s the conclusion researchers from the Wharton...
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How Many Other Catastrophic-Risk Assessments Haven’t Been Done?
The Federal Report on the BP Macondo well disaster that killed 11 workers and caused a catastrophic oil leak into the Gulf of Mexico was released last week, and the conclusions are ugly. According to...
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“Businesses are not investing in trying to figure out what they’ve done...
That’s the opinion of Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman. Here’s the full quote from a Strategy+Business Article: “The thing that astonishes me when I talk to businesspeople in the context...
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