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The Innovation Mindset: Eight Essential Steps to Transform Any Industry Lorraine H. Marchand with john Hanc Columbia Business School Publishing (July 2022) Innovative thinking can be much more than a process: it should be a way of life in the…
Read MoreTap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012: A Fortune Magazine Book Carol J. Loomis Portfolio/Penguin Group (2012) “When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.” Warren Buffett Note: I…
Read MoreQuality Sharedholders: How the Best Managers Attract and Keep Them Lawrence A. Cunningham Columbia Business School Publishing (November 2020) Why managers in public companies usually get the shareholders they deserve, for better or worse Years ago, Jackie Huba and Ben…
Read MoreTap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012: A Fortune Magazine Book Carol J. Loomis Portfolio/Penguin Group (2012) “When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.” Warren Buffett Note: I…
Read MoreThe Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Fifth Edition) Warren Buffett Selected, Arranged, and Introduced by Lawrence A. Cunningham Carolina Academic Press (2019) “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair…
Read MoreMargin of Trust: The Berkshire Business Model Lawrence Cunningham and Stephanie Cuba Columbia Business School Publishing (January 2020) Value investing depends on “margin of safety”; organizational health depends on “margin of trust” I have just re-read this book and, if…
Read More“What’s the big deal about design thinking?” You’ve probably asked that question, one to which Jeanne Liedtka responds in a brilliant article she wrote for Harvard Business Review. * * * Because design thinking is a social technology, it has…
Read MoreStartup Myths and Models: What You Won’t Learn in Business School Rizwan Virk Columbia Business School Publishing (June 2010) Here’s a GPS for “Startup Land” At the moment, no one is learning anything in business schools. However, when classes resume,…
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The Flywheel Effect
Jim Collins introduced his concept of “The Flywheel Effect” in his book Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t (2001). No matter how dramatic the end result, good-to-great transformations never happen in one fell swoop. In…
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