Month: February 2016
The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World’s Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley Eric Weiner Simon & Schuster (2016) How and why “certain places, at certain times, produce a bumper crop of brilliant minds and…
Read MoreBob Nease received his doctorate from Stanford University, where he studied methods to improve medical decisions made by doctors and patients. Before joining Express Scripts in 2001, he was an associate professor of internal medicine at Washington University in St.…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Jacques Bughin for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm, obtain subscription information, and register…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Peter Bregman for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Marcus Noland and Tyler Moranfor Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR…
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Digital isn’t merely an add-on; it’s a way to think differently about business models, customer journeys, and organizational agility. Hence the importance of developing a digital state of mind. Here is a brief excerpt from a transcript of a podcast…
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Cultural Transformations: Lessons of Leadership and Corporate Reinvention John Mattone and Nick Vaidya John Wiley & Sons (2016) How and why organizations that thrive have launched preemptive transformation to dominate their competition Most change initiatives either fail or fall far…
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Platform-based talent markets help put the emphasis in human-capital management back where it belongs—on humans. Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Aaron De Smet, Susan Lund, and William Schaninger for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey…
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Remix Strategy: The Three Laws of Business Combinations Benjamin Gomes-Casseres Harvard Business Review Press (2015) How to create organizational value with a strategy that maximizes the impact of both internal and external resource As Benjamin Gomes-Casseres observes in the first…
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Who was Frederick Winslow Taylor and why is he important?
Although he attended Phillips Exeter Academy and passed the Harvard entrance examination with honors, Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) decided to be a machinist and worked his way up the factory floor to become foreman while taking mechanical engineering courses at…
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