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What's the Real Skinny on Detroit? 22 Aug 2013 | 08:29 pm
He’s quite right: Stephan Richter, that is. As a Michigan native, with grade school and high school bridging the nineteen-forties and fifties, I’ve read too much on the bankruptcy of my beloved Detroi...
The High Performers Are Not the Best Mentors 15 Aug 2013 | 07:06 pm
Recent research into role model and mentor selection reveals that the best choices are counter-intuitive. You’d think that a top expert or an exceptional performer would make for the best role model o...
Dan Is On Vacation 6 Aug 2013 | 07:15 pm
My silence this week means that I'm on family vacation in the beautiful lake country around Nisswa, MN. I'll be back to my blog on Tuesday or Wednesday next week. Best to all.
Still Another Corporate Stumble on IT Workers 31 Jul 2013 | 02:09 pm
Back in March last year, I wrote about the inadequate recruiting practices of many organizations. It's becoming clear that as often as not the problem isn't so much the reputed skills-gap, but the bar...
Friedman's Cute Terms 24 Jul 2013 | 07:28 pm
Looking at Egypt's three revolutions from 30,000 feet brought out Tom Friedman is at his best in this morning's Times. After two paragraphs explaining the three revolutions, beginning with Mubarak, Fr...
What Men Should Know About Violence to Women 24 Jul 2013 | 03:14 pm
“Dorothy Giunta-Cotter knew that someday her husband, William, would kill her.” That’s not the first line from a murder mystery, but how Rachel Snyder’s illuminating article on domestic homicide in th...
Poking Holes (Constructively) in the Martin-Zimmerman Hullaballoo 18 Jul 2013 | 07:20 pm
One of the most difficult conversational issues is to keep significant disagreement from curdling into bitter politics. But using the right tools, it can be done in both politics and business. Take, f...
Why Are the Most Successful Entrepreneurs Older Than Age 40? 10 Jul 2013 | 10:36 pm
Debunking the entrepreneurial myth. So why did Mark Zuckerberg hire Sheryl Sandberg? With all the hype about successful 20-somethings, you’d think that they had entrepreneurialism all sewed up. Ma.....
Dan Erwin's Three Best Columns from the Past Weekend 2 Jul 2013 | 10:26 pm
Rachel Donaldio at the New York Times on "When Italians Chat, Hands and Fingers do the talking." If you have trouble reading nonverbals, the Italians are great at gestures. I'm not talking obscene ges...
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Analytical Thinking 27 Jun 2013 | 03:00 pm
In self-deprecating rhetoric, Justice Ginsburg delivered a quote, Tuesday, much in support of analytical thinking. She defined the legal mind as one that “can think about a thing inextricably attached...
