Recommendation: The Harvard Business Ideacast

I regularly listen to the Harvard Business Ideacast. Each podcast is 10-15 minutes long, and includes an interview with the author of an article from a recent issue of the Harvard Business Review—or perhaps the author of a regular blog on the Harvard Business Publishing website.

My recent favorites include “8 Things We Hate About IT” (interview with Susan Cramm, episode # 97, posted June 5, 2008), “Why Gen Xers Are Unhappy at Work” (interview with Tammy Erickson, episode #95, posted May 21, 2008), “Where Will We Find Tomorrow’s Leaders?” (interview with Linda Hill, episode #93, posted May 8, 2008) and “The MFA is the New MBA” (interview with Katherine Bell, episode #92, posted May 3, 2008).

I Love It When a Plan (or a Team) Comes Together, Part 2

Here is a video from NASA that puts you right inside a team as it executes the landing procedures for the Mars Phoenix Explorer. It's riveting—and shouldn’t every team get this excited when their project succeeds? You can see it at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology website.

I Love It When a Plan (or a Team) Comes Together, Part 1

Here is a video from inside the Obama presidential campaign that inspired me. It demonstrates how a well-made plan—and a well-led team—can accomplish seemingly impossible things. (I saw it originally here at Daily Kos.)

2008 (Jan-Jun) Reading Recommendations

Jane Austen: Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility and Mansfield Park
Julie Barrett: Presumption
P. L. Gaus: Broken English and Clouds without Rain
David Haddon: A Spot of Bother
Haven Kimmel: She Got Up Off the Couch
Leonie Swann: Three Bags Full

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