“an antidote for the Great Man theory of decision making and organizational performance
Paid to Think: A Leader’s Toolkit for Redefining Your Future David Goldsmith with Lorrie Goldsmith BenBella Books (2012) A one-volume library of business information, insights, and wisdom Note: The title is somewhat misleading because the scope and depth of the…
Read MorePaid to Think: A Leader’s Toolkit for Redefining Your Future David Goldsmith with Lorrie Goldsmith BenBella Books (2012) An abundance of business information, insights, and wisdom for those who need to increase the value of what they think Note: The…
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Opinions vary as to what defines a “classic” business book. My own opinion is that it offers insights and counsel that are of timeless value. To paraphrase Bernard of Chartres, a 12th century monk, their authors are the shoulders upon…
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In one of Tom Davenport’s recent books, Judgment Calls , he and co-author Brooke Manville offer “an antidote for the Great Man theory of decision making and organizational performance”: organizational judgment. That is, “the collective capacity to make good calls…
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In one of Tom Davenport’s recent books, Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right, he and co-author Brooke Manville offer “an antidote for the Great Man theory of decision making and organizational performance”:…
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As I worked my way through Burkus’ lively and eloquent narrative, I was also keenly interested in his discussion Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s insights relevant to incubation in Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (1997): “Once the incubation stage…
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Disrupt! Think Epic. Be Epic Bill Jensen Net Minds (2013) How-to-Figure-It-All-Out I have read and reviewed all of Bill Jensen’s previously published books and think Disrupt! is his most valuable — thus far — because it will have the widest…
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Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim Harvard Business Review Press (2013) Almost everything most business leaders know about analytics they have learned from Tom Davenport and the material…
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Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim Harvard Business Review Press (2013) What non-quants need to understand in order to take full advantage of the results that quantitative analysis…
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Thinking out of the box about “thinking out of the box”
I wish I had a five-dollar bill (or even a dollar bill) for every time I have encountered a reference to “out of the box thinking.” The background to this phrase, briefly, is that it was popularized by motivational speaker…
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