Ray Kroc
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…
Read More
Hunting in a Farmer’s World: Celebrating the Mind of an Entrepreneur John F. Dini Gardendale Press (2013) How and why all “farms” need both hunters and farmers During his remarks at an annual meeting of GE shareholders, then chairman and…
Read More
Golden Opportunity: Remarkable Careers That Began at McDonald’s Cody Teets Cider Hill Press (2012) How arches of opportunity can become bridges to remarkable achievement What led Codie Teets to write this book? Weary of and insulted by “the bad rap…
Read More
A graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of Sydney, Tom Butler-Bowdon was working as a political advisor in Australia when, at 25, he read his first personal development book, Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Captivated…
Read More
Here is an excerpt from an especially insightful article written by Nancy Koehn. It is part of The Washington Post‘s recent On Leadership roundtable exploring Tim Cook’s succession of Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple, and how to follow in…
Read More
Walk the Walk: The #1 Rule for Real Leaders Alan Deutschman Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2009) Deutschman’s objective was to write what turns out to be an especially entertaining and engaging as well as informative analysis of “real” leadership, what Bill…
Read More
“It’s never too late to be great….”
Tom Butler-Bowdon has only recently received in the United States the attention and appreciation that he so richly deserves. Years ago, he formulated his “50 Classics” concept, based on the idea that “every subject or genre will contain at least 50…
Share this:
Like this: