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Old Dog + New Tricks = Top Dog
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Staying at the leading edge of management ideas and practices turns out to be a challenge even for those who are in the first ranks of management education. For the rest of us, it’s occasionally surprising to find out what we don’t know, even about subjects on which we profess expertise. A couple of experiences…
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When the Fat Lady Sings Off-Key
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It was the end of a well-received dramatic performance last Saturday night, and the audience responded with appreciative applause. The four actors came out one at a time, took their curtain call, and then joined hands for a collective bow. A man in the second row rose, applauding enthusiastically, and one by one people joined…
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What if…?
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What a deal: Christmas with the family in snowy Northern Vermont, then New Year’s Eve for two overlooking Biscayne Bay in Miami. My wife, Annie, and I went from the sublime to the sublime and said goodbye to 2007 from a prime table at Prime Blue Grille . The new restaurant was everything that my…
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The Pregnant Question
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The school principal doesn’t come into her classroom very often but, when she does, it’s invariably to make sure that my daughter Katie is working from the right page in the right lesson plan for her first-grade inner-city (not Boston) students. It’s all prescribed. Very little deviation is permitted. Standardized teaching for standardized tests. No…