Month: October 2013
Fish Can’t See Water: How National Culture Can Make or Break Your Corporate Strategy Kai Hammerich and Richard D Lewis John Wiley & Sons (2013) How and why “deep and often invisible natural programming” can affect the strategy execution of…
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Joseph L. Badaracco is the John Shad Professor of Business Ethics at Harvard Business School. He has taught courses on business ethics, strategy, and management in the School’s MBA and executive programs. Badaracco is a graduate of St. Louis University,…
Read MoreI hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Conf!dence: Overcoming Low Self-Esteem, Insecurity, and Self-Doubt Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic The Office Politics Handbook: Winning the Game of Power and Politics at…
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Here is an excerpt from a blog post by Tim Ferriss who explains that increasing reading speed is a process of controlling fine motor movement—period. To read the complete article, please click here. Photo: Dustin Diaz * * * How…
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Conf!dence: Overcoming Low Self-Esteem, Insecurity, and Self-Doubt Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Hudson Street Press/The Penguin Group (2013) How and why “low confidence is the result of failure but the source of success” In this thoughtful and thought-provoking book, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic observes, “The…
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Here is a brief excerpt from Pat Lencioni‘s latest Point of View. To read the complete article and check out other resources, please click here. * * * This is going to be a difficult POV to write, because making…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Katya Andresen for LinkedIn. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. Photo via the Human Capitalist, a blog on human resources. * * * For me,…
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The Office Politics Handbook: Winning the Game of Power and Politics at Work Jack Godwin Career Pess (2013) How to survive and then thrive by effectively managing micropolitics in the contemporary workplace As I began to read this book, I…
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Here is a recent post by Josh Linkner at his website. He discusses a subject of special interest to me, causal relationships, that has almost unlimited relevance to human experience throughout recorded history. Although the most significant chain reaction was…
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Maria Popova shares perspectives on the perils of the “OK Plateau”
Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Maria Popova for her website, Brain Pickings. As she explains, “The core ethos behind Brain Pickings is that creativity is a combinatorial force: It’s our ability to tap into the…
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