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The More Senior Your Job Title, the More You Need to Keep a Journal

Harvard Business

The best thinking comes from structured reflection — and the best way to do that is keeping a personal journal. I started keeping a journal when I took over a manufacturing research, software, and consulting firm. A journal is an effective, efficient, private way to take a similar break.

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Do Academic Journals Favor Researchers from Their Own Institutions?

Harvard Business

Are academic journals impartial? While many would suggest that academic journals work for the advancement of knowledge and science, we show this is not always the case. In a recent study , we find that two international relations (IR) journals favor articles written by authors who share the journal’s institutional affiliation.

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business

In an Academy of Management Journal editorial, we described two problems that contribute to this challenge. Researchers have found that managers tend to be unaware of research-supported management insights reported in academic journals, and that such insights are typically excluded in practitioner-oriented journals.

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Consultant Ninja: Friedman Billings Ramsey and Tom Peters.

Consultant Ninja

The longer I am in business, the more allergic I am becoming to business gurus and journals (Tom Peters, Gary Hamel, HBR, McK Quarterly, etc). He attributes FBRs previous success to a unique methodology. Anyways, back in 2005, Tom Peters loved FBR. I guess they werent so different after all. AAI is the old FBR REIT. The ANALyst.

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Consulting Sales Systems That Work for Introverts with Bob Burg: Podcast #16

Consulting Success

He enjoyed the job but wasn’t very good at it simply because he wasn’t interested in journalism. Without a passion for journalism, he knew he needed to make a career change and graduated into sales. He started out as a sports broadcaster for a local radio station, then landed a spot as a TV news broadcaster.

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How Self-Care Became So Much Work

Harvard Business

Numerous studies support this — for example, the Journal of Consumer Research has published research showing that Americans associate busyness and stress with prestige and status. Although the American Psychiatric Association reports that 39% of U.S.

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Is Gathering Real Time "Inflation" Data With Smart Phones a "Game Changer"?

MishTalk

The Wall Street Journal claims Real-Time Economic Data Could Be a Game Changer. Fatal Flaws in Inflation Tracking Methodology. Premise Data Corp, a startup firm backed by Google, has deployed 700 smartphone-equipped workers across 25 cities to capture images of products as their prices change daily.

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