Mary Kay Ash
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…
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Low-Hanging Fruit: 77 Eye-Opening Ways to Improve Productivity and Profits Jeremy Eden and Terri Long Wiley (2014) How to “get a good cash crop yield from business innovation” Years ago, I helped a Fortune 50 company establish an electronic suggestion…
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Built to Innovate: Essential Practices to Wire Innovation into Your Company’s DNA Ben Bensaou with Karl Weber McGRaw-Hill (September 2021) How to establish and then nourish an innovation-driven workplace culture With assistance from Karl Weber, Ben Bensaou wrote a book…
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Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent Sydney Finkelstein Portfolio/Penguin Random House (2016) Here in a single volume is a “master class in how each of us can make a much greater impact in what we do” In…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Sydney Finkelstein 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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Great Motivation Secrets of Great Leaders John Baldoni McGraw-Hill (2005) “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams Long ago I concluded that one person cannot…
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Great Communication Secrets of Great Leaders John Baldoni McGraw-Hill (2003) “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” George Bernard Shaw I read this book when it was first published (2003) and recently re-read…
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I recently re-read Steven Johnson‘s Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, curious to know how well his material has held up since its publication in 2010. My conclusion? If anything, his insights are more relevant now…
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Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags Linda Rottenberg Portfolio/Penguin “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” Tennyson’s Ulysses Most people are caught up in what James O’Toole so aptly characterizes as…
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“Lateral thinking with withered technology”
In his latest bestseller, Range, David Epstein devotes an entire chapter to a concept with which many people are not familiar: “lateral thinking with withered technology.” This is how Gunpei Yokoi explained his success creating electronic games for Nintendo. As…
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