Steven Wright
Move Fast & Fix Things: The Trusted Leader’s Guide to Solving Hard Problems Frances Frei and Anne Morriss Harvard Business Review Press (October 2023) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” …
Read MorePeter F. Drucker on Management Essentials, Peter F. Drucker, Harvard Business Review Press, “So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work”, Drucker’s widely quoted comment helps to explain why so many organizations…
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Lead Care Win: How to Become a Leader Who Matters Dan Pontefract Figure 1 Publishing (September 2020) “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Eppie Lederer (Ann Landers) I have read and reviewed each of Dan Pontefract’s three previously…
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The other day, someone asked me which business lessons I have found to be the most valuable. Here are ten, in no particular order: o “If you can’t explain your great idea to a six year-old, you really…
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Edison Edmund Morris Random House (October 2019) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison Thomas Alva Edison is generally considered among the greatest inventors/innovators in modern history. He was awarded 1,073 patents. The list of what he created or improved…
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Thomas Alva Edison is generally considered among the greatest inventors/innovators in modern history. He was awarded 1,073 patents. The list of what he created or improved includes the automatic telegraph, carbon telephone transmitter, the light bulb, phonograph, movie camera and…
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Jurriaan Kamer is an organization designer, transformation coach, and speaker. He lives with his wife and two kids in Utrecht, The Netherlands. He is an expert in the field of organizing differently. He is obsessed with modern organizations and how…
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A 12th century French monk, Bernard of Chartres, once observed that he “stood on the shoulders of giants.” Since 1999, I have reviewed about 3,400 business books (for Amazon US, UK, and Canada) and interviewed about 600 thought leaders.…
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What Motivates Getting Things Done: Procrastination, Emotions, and Success Mary Lamia Rowman & Littlefield (June 2017) “The early bird may get the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese.” Steven Wright There is often a fine line between extended…
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Wright is seldom wrong: Part 1
Here is another selection of insights (and outsights) from a very observant man, Steven Wright. o When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child. o I went…
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