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We’ve all heard the saying “Be careful about what you wish for; you just might get it.” In the case of the California power…

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If you haven’t read Jim Collins’s latest book, Good to Great (HarperBusiness, 2001), you should—the findings could change the way you do business once…

I recently heard about a piece of software that I could use on my iPad to build causal loop diagrams. As a Mac user,…

Apparently, size does matter these A days—particularly in the American biotech industry. According to Hambrecht and Quist, an investment bank, large biotechnology companies…

In Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy (Jossey-Bass, 2012), professor Amy Edmondson of Harvard Business School has crafted…

Effective coaching is one of the highest leverage activities available to leaders today for improving individual and group learning and performance. Developing partnerships with…

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