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		<title>The Inclusion Dividend: A book review by Bob Morris</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Morris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A brilliant explanation of the ROI of a workplace community within which diversity and inclusion are core values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bibliomotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Challenges to Creating Inclusion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[original meaning of "barbarian": non-Greek.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Some of the Latest Research on Unconscious Bias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Inclusion Dividend : Why Investing in Diversity & Inclusion Pays Off]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Inclusion Dividend: Why Investing in Diversity &#38; Inclusion Pays Off Mark Kaplan and Mason Donovan Bibliomotion (2013) A brilliant explanation of the ROI of a workplace community within which diversity and inclusion are core values If you were to ask ten different people to define the word &#8220;diversity,&#8221; you would probably get 7-10 different [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ffbsccn.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5328164&#038;post=29154&#038;subd=ffbsccn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Here’s the New York Times Hardcover Business Books Best Sellers for May, 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 14:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Mayeux</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s the New York Times Hardcover Business Books Best Sellers for May, 2013. In Dallas, Karl Krayer and I have presented our synopses of business books every month (two each month) since April, 1998.  From this month’s list:  I have presented Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg (at the April, 2013 gathering), Decisive, Chip Heath and Dan [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ffbsccn.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5328164&#038;post=29228&#038;subd=ffbsccn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marissa Mayer (Yahoo) buys Tumblr – and/but, Take a Look at her Casual Attire</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 13:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Mayeux</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I just read the short piece by Matthew Iglesias about the Yahoo purchase of Tumblr:  Yahoo Buys Tumblr, Promises Continued Operational Independence Under David Karp&#8217;s Leadership.  Concise, makes sense.  Here are the two key sentences: You&#8217;re going to hear a lot about Marissa Mayer trying to make Yahoo cool again and no doubt that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ffbsccn.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5328164&#038;post=29223&#038;subd=ffbsccn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The First 90 Days: A book review by Bob Morris</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 13:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Morris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["Onboarding checklists"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Reasons for transition failures"]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA["Vision without execution is hallucination"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Avoiding Common Alignment Traps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Avoiding Common Team-Building Traps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Avoiding Transition Traps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[“Emotional Expensiveness”]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[“The Vicious Cycle of Transitions”]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[“The Virtuous Cycle of Transitions”]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Building Support for Early-Win Objectives]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[How and why the first 90 days in a new leadership position can sometimes seem like 90 minutes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael D. Watkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planning for Five [Transition-Specific] Conversations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The First 90 Days (Updated and Expanded): Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded Edition: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels Michael D. Watkins Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How and why the first 90 days in a new leadership position can sometimes seem like 90 minutes This is a revised and updated edition of a book I read [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ffbsccn.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5328164&#038;post=29151&#038;subd=ffbsccn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 5/13/13)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 12:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Morris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["How the Internet of Things Changes Everything"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["How to Influence People with Your Ideas"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["How to Stop Going to So Many Meetings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["If you think top executives have to have charisma [comma] think again"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Several expert perspectives on data analytics"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["The coming era of “on-demand” marketing"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Bryant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ashok Subramanian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[“How to stop the mediocrity pandemic”]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brooke Denihan Barrett (Denihan Hospitality Group) in “The Corner Office”]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charting technology’s new directions: A conversation with MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Stadler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cy Wakeman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dani Monroe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dave Logan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Davis Dyer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Butman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tim Berners-Lee]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Lean Practitioner’s Handbook Mark Eaton HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategic Marketing HBR Editors and various contributors Weaving the Web: the Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee Untapped [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ffbsccn.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5328164&#038;post=29221&#038;subd=ffbsccn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does it matter where you went to school?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 11:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Morris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an article written by Margaret Heffernan for CBS MoneyWatch, the CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the website’s newsletters, please click here. * * * (MoneyWatch) Every year, Amazon (AMZN) hires hundreds of MBA graduates. Where they [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ffbsccn.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5328164&#038;post=29171&#038;subd=ffbsccn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Predictive Analytics: A book review by Bob Morris</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 12:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Morris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Competing on Analytics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eric Siegel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The skills and tools needed to improve the accuracy of predictions of what will – and will not -- happen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the “Information Age”]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Five Effects of Prediction"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Twenty-One Applications of Predictive Analytics"]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Predictive Analytics: the Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die Eric Siegel John Wiley &#38; Sons (2013) The skills and tools needed to improve the accuracy of predictions of what will – and will not &#8212; happen One dimension of the “Information Age” is the extent to which those who offer a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ffbsccn.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5328164&#038;post=29113&#038;subd=ffbsccn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategic Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 19:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Morris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[" "Marketing Myopia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the Net Promoter® Score System]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Ultimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Growth (2006) and The Ultimate Question 2.0 (Revised and Expanded Edition): How Net Promoter Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategic Marketing HBR Editors and various contributors Harvard Busxiness Review Press (2013) How the right strategy can help create or increase demand for whatever is offered This is one in a series of volumes that anthologizes what the editors of the Harvard Business Review consider to be the “must reads” [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ffbsccn.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5328164&#038;post=29215&#038;subd=ffbsccn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amy Jen Su and Muriel Maignan Wilkins: An interview by Bob Morris</title>
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		<category><![CDATA["Signature Voice": Having a signature voice is about having a presence that is unique and authentic to you and yet connects well with those around you]]></category>
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		<title>Some of My Best Friends are Black by Tanner Colby &#8212; Here are my 11 Observations</title>
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		<dc:creator>Randy Mayeux</dc:creator>
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