James O’Toole
The Unexpected Power of Boundaries: Rethinking the Rules, Risks, and Real Drivers of Innovation Sheri Jacobs Amplify Publishing Group (March 2026) How and why “innovation isn’t about removing all limits; It’s about designing better ones.” Years ago, I asked John…
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Mindshift: Transform Leadership, Drive Innovation, and Shape the Future Brian Solis Wiley (October 2024) “If you’ve always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.” Charles Kettering James O’Toole has suggested that the strongest resistance to change tends to be cultural…
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The Hive Mind at Work: Harnessing the Power of Group Intelligence to Create Meaningful and Lasting Change Siobhán McHale HarperCollins Leadership (September 2024) “That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.” Marcus Aurelius In…
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Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future Mike Maples Jr. and Peter Ziebelman PublicAffairs (July 2024) “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Pogo the Possum Mike Maples and Peter Ziebelman agree. They created this book in…
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The Problem with Change: And the Essential Nature of Human Performance Ashley Goodall Little, Brown Spark (May 2024) “If you’ve always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.” Charles Kettering In his classic book, Leading Change, James O’Toole suggests that…
Read MoreThe Growth Advantage: A Business Blueprint for the Ultimate Competitive Advantage Bob Lisser Rowan & Littlefield (May 2022) Here’s the basic blueprint from an architect of organizational competitive advantages “To develop a Strategy Advantage, you need to maximize the following…
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Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing…Including You Brad Stulberg HarperOne: An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers (September 2023) Accepting the inevitability of change “turns out to be empowering and even an advantage.” In the Introduction, Brad Stulberg observes,…
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The Age of Prediction: Algorithms, AI, and the Shifting Shadows of Risk Igor Tulchinsky and Christopher E. Mason The MIT Press (August 2023) A brilliant analysis of two abstractions that are increasingly shaping our lives According to Igor…
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Reinvent: Navigating Business Transformation in a Hyperdigital Era Faisal Hoque Fast Company Press (July 2023) “What got you here won’t get you there.” Marshall Goldsmith I agree with Marshall Goldsmith. In fact, I take his insight a step further: What…
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“Leading Change”: John Kotter’s Classic Article from HBR
Here is a brief excerpt from a classic article written by John A. Kotter and published in Harvard Business Review (March 1995). To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please…
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