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How category design can help your company dominate its competitive marketplace

June 3, 2016

In Play Bigger (HarperBusiness, June 2016), Al Ramadan, Dave Petterson, Christopher Lochhead, and Kevin Maney explain how and why “pirates, dreamers, and innovators create and dominate markets.” Category design is one of the key concepts that they examine. What is it?…

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Sydney Finkelstein on Three Types of “Superboss”

February 8, 2016

In his latest, recently published book, Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent, Sydney Finkelstein explores “the characteristic behaviors of the world’s most effective bosses, upending conventional best practices and presenting a new, comprehensive paradigm for developing talent.…

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What Is Disruptive Innovation?

November 25, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, and Rory McDonald for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain…

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Greg McKeown on how to develop “the disciplined pursuit of less”

October 12, 2015

In Essentialism, Greg McKeown explains how to develop “the disciplined pursuit of less.” Obviously, he agrees with Albert Einstein: “Make everything as simple as possible but not simpler.” I agree with McKeown: “There are three deeply entrenched assumptions we must…

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Greg McKeown on “The Pursuit of Less”

April 27, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an interview of Greg McKeown by Frank Kalman for written Talent Management magazine. To read the interview, check out all the resources, and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and/or Chief Learning…

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Greg McKeown: An interview by Bob Morris

March 6, 2015

Greg McKeown is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. His writing has appeared or been covered by Fast Company, Fortune, HuffPost, Politico,Inc. Magazine and Harvard Business Review. He has also been interviewed…

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Applying design thinking across the business: An interview with Citrix’s Catherine Courage

March 6, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an interview of Catherine Courage by Hugo Sarrazin and Hyo Yeon for the McKinsey Quarterly (February 2015), published by McKinsey & Company. Catherine Courage champions user-centered design—not only for the benefit of the software…

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Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work

September 9, 2014

I have read and reviewed Liz Wiseman’s previously published books — notably Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter and The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools — and am now reading Rookie Smarts, published by HarperBusiness (October 2014). In it,…

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The Three-Word Problem That Can Destroy Your Life

July 25, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Greg McKeown for LinkedIn Pulse. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. * * * We have a problem—and the odd thing is we not only…

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Why Innovating Means Eliminating Much of What You Have Just Created

May 31, 2014

Here is an excerpt from an article by Greg McKeown for Fast Company magazine. He explains why, although it may seem like a waste of time or a step backward, we sometimes need to subtract from our “big ideas” to…

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