Month: December 2014
Here is an excerpt from a classic article from the March (1987) of Harvard Business Review written by Alan M. Webber It is based on his interview of Red Auerbach. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of…
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Geoffrey Moore is an author, speaker, and advisor who splits his consulting time between start-up companies in the Mohr Davidow portfolio and established high-tech enterprises, including Salesforce, Microsoft, Intel, Box, Aruba, Cognizant, and Rackspace most recently. His life’s work has…
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Here is a brief excerpt from a brilliant article by Michael Fitzgerald for the MIT Sloan Management Review. He suggests that data scientists tend to work in relative isolation and focus on their data rather than the “big picture” their…
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Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Roger Ferguson,chief executive of TIAA-CREF,…
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Mark Roberti has reported on business for major publications worldwide since 1985. In 2002, he launched RFID Journal on the Web as an independent source of news and information for business and IT executives looking to tap RFID’s enormous potential.…
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Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive Edward M. Hallowell, MD Harvard Business Review Press (2014) How to “modulate distraction and overload while becoming happier, healthier, and more productive in the process” I have reviewed…
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Here’s the latest communiqué from Marty Neumeier in which he shares his thoughts about the process by which to obtain buy-in from those who are initially opposed or indifferent to the given proposition. * * * Imagine being shown a…
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John Cleese discusses his memoir So, Anyway, reflects on the wonders of aging and shares his idea for a unique Monty Python reunion performance and admits that he’d rather play with his cats than eat dinner with Prime Minister David…
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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World Mark Miodownik Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014) How and why we need to find out “where materials came from, how they work, and what they say about us.” The title…
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Is there a payoff from top-team diversity?
Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Thomas Barta, Markus Kleiner, and Tilo Neumann for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. They acknowledge that, between 2008 and 2010, companies with more diverse top teams were…
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