Alvin Toffler
The Storm of Creativity Kyna Leski The MIT Press (November 2018) “Wanting to know something that you do not know is the creative process” Kyna Leski To what does the title of this book refer? Kyna Leski suggests that a…
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Compassionate Leadership: How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter with Marissa Afton and Moses Mohan Harvard Business Review Press (January 2022) Alvin Toffler nailed it. “The illiterate of the 21st century,” Toffler observes…
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Influence and Impact: Discover and Excel at What Your Organization Needs from You the Most Bill Berman and George Bradt Wiley (June 2021) What your organization REALLY wants from you may not be what you think it is According to…
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50 Business Classics: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on innovation, management and strategy Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey (April 2018) “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Ann Landers (Eppie Lederer) [Note: I recently re-read this book again…
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Martin Reeves is Chairman of The BCG Henderson Institute, BCG’s think tank on strategy and management. He researches, publishes and pilots new thinking on business challenges, drawing upon both innovations in business and fields such as biology, computer science and…
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Dr. Andrew Temte, CFA, is President and Global Head of Corporate Learning at Kaplan North America and former CEO of Kaplan Professional. A thought leader on issues related to workforce reskilling and upskilling, he is the author of Balancing Act:…
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Hire Purpose: How Smart Companies Can Close the Skills Gap Deanna Mulligan with Greg Shaw Columbia Business School Press (October 2020) “The illiterate of the 21st century will be those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” I was again reminded…
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Shapers: Reinvent the Way You Work and Change the Future Jonas Altman Wiley (September 2020) How and why you can — and should — shape the work you do and how you do it According to Jonas Altman, “Shapers begin…
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Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change Edward D. Hess Berrett-Koehler Publishers (September 2020) “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” George Bernard Shaw J. H. Flavell was probably the first to use the term…
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What are the defining characteristics of an agile organization?
Many years ago, Jack Welch was asked why he highly admired small organizations. GE’s then chairman and CEO offered this response: “There are several reasons. For one, they communicate better. Without the din and prattle of bureaucracy, people listen as…
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